December, 2023

• 12 December

  Expiration of UN Missile Sanctions Has Limited Effect on Iran’s Arms Trade

  

  While much of the world’s attention was focused on the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, the UN Security Council’s sanctions on the development and export of Iranian missiles quietly expired on October 18 (Amwaj.media, October 22). The sanctions were part of UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which set the specific …

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• 12 December

  Russia Doesn’t Want Or Need All Of Ukraine, Only Enough To Deny Kyiv An Outlet To The Sea – OpEd

  

  Many suffer under the misapprehension that Moscow wants to absorb all of Ukraine, the ZeRada telegram channel says. But that it incorrect: Russia needs only to absorb what are now Ukrainian territories along the Black Sea littoral, including Odessa, so that a landlocked and much weakened Ukraine won’t be able …

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• 12 December

  Ralph Nader: Israeli Government’s War Crimes Enabled And Defended By Biden And Congress – OpEd

  

  The humiliation of the U.S. government, which is actively complicit in providing the weaponry, funding, and UN vetoes backing the Israeli government’s attack on the civilian Palestinians/Arabs in tiny Gaza, is in plain view daily. All in the name of the unasked American people and taxpayers. Earlier this week, at …

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• 12 December

  Breakthrough In Azerbaijani–Armenian Peace Negotiations? – Analysis

  

  In a first-of-a-kind bilateral statement, without any external participation, Azerbaijan and Armenia have arrived at an extremely important humanitarian and diplomatically symbolic agreement. It is the first time Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed to coordinate on any international matter. The humanitarian aspect is that the Republic of Azerbaijan—”driven,” according to the …

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• 12 December

  Khamenei’s Fear Of Defection And Tension In His Regime – OpEd

  

  In fear of a popular uprising in Iran, Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei saw the Gaza war as a solution to protect his regime against the people. Additionally, to instill fear in society he has resorted to widespread executions to extinguish the flame of uprising. Alongside these actions, he …

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• 12 December

  Russia Readies For A Brave New World – OpEd

  

  The announcement on Friday by Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will seek reelection for a fifth term in office came as no surprise. That he chose the occasion of a Kremlin ceremony conferring the Hero of Russia medals to servicemen who had taken part in Russia’s military operation against …

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• 12 December

  Reformation Nation: Wartime Politics In Ukraine – Analysis

  

  Politics in the absence of electionsIn November 2023, the European Commission approved the start of EU accession talks with Ukraine. This was a sign of confidence in just how much Ukraine has changed – in the midst of conflict – since it received candidate status in June 2022. Russia’s war …

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• 12 December

  Les BRICS se coordonnent pour mettre l’Occident en faillite

  

  Question 40 Pour moi, il s’agit d’une guerre économique et bancaire dans laquelle le Sud, les nations musulmanes, la Russie et la Chine tentent d’obtenir leur juste part en augmentant les prix de leurs ressources et en vendant leurs dollars à découvert, ce qui provoque une inflation qui entraînera une …

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• 12 December

  Ukraine: Biden Helping Putin to Win

  

  The Biden administration’s persistent failure to provide Ukraine with the military supplies it requires poses a serious danger of gifting victory to Russian President Vladimir Putin. [T]he Ukrainians… remain desperately short of key ammunition. [A]ny form of Russian success in Ukraine would not only spell disaster for Kyiv, but for …

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• 12 December

  Réflexions stratégiques depuis Moscou

  

  La tension inhérente et l’absence d’échanges véritables sont pires que pendant la guerre froide, lorsque les canaux de communication restaient ouverts. Les relations entre les États-Unis et la Russie sont au plus bas ; la situation est même pire que ce que l’on pouvait imaginer. En discutant avec de hauts …

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