In an astonishing turn of events starNng 23 June 2023, the Wagner Group’s leader Yevgeny Prigozhin declared all-out war on the Russian state, leading a convoy of mercenaries to march straight toward Moscow. The muNny, which embarrassed Russian President Vladimir PuNn and caught the Russian military and security services completely …
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31 August
Security Agreement Could Prompt Chinese Retaliation Against South Korea – Analysis
China’s discontent over security and economic agreements that Seoul forged with Washington and Tokyo at a Camp David summit leaves open a possibility it could respond with coercive economic and military measures against South Korea, experts say. During last week’s summit at the U.S. presidential retreat of Camp David, South …
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31 August
Ukraine-Russia War: The Changing Trends In Modern Warfare – OpEd
Since the innovation in high-tech, the means of warfare are evolving, the weaponry of war is changing, and new strategies are developing. The Ukraine-Russia war has highlighted – new trends in warfare. It is the largest war in Europe since 1945. The war has shattered all the illustrations, such as, …
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31 August
Russia Looks East To Asia Pacific – Analysis
While much of Russia’s national focus remains on Ukraine, and the wider European area, President Vladimir Putin maintains big economic and political ambitions for the Asia-Pacific region, too. The latest sign of this will come next month when Vladivostok hosts the Eastern Economic Forum from Sept. 10-13. This major business …
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31 August
The (Purported) Death Of Prigozhin: Five Questions On What Comes Next – Analysis
Three days after an Embraer 600 passenger jet linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin broke up and slammed into the ground north of Moscow, there is still no final clarity on the fate of the Wagner Group founder. President Vladimir Putin suggested Prigozhin was dead in comments on August 24, speaking about …
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31 August
Saudi Arabia’s Military And Nuclear Demands Maybe Undermined By US Congress – OpEd
The Biden administration has characterized securing the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel as a national security matter and is actively working to achieve its goal. US domestic politics is driving the Biden policy that sees Saudi-Israel normalization as a “foreign policy win” for an aging and weak …
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31 August
À propos de l’Inde, un aperçu de la complexité du jeu chinois, ou l’art de la territorialisation des contradictions dans un temps long
La comparaison a été souvent faite de la Chine joueur de go et ce qui dans ce jeu est différent de la plupart des jeux, qu’il s’agisse des échecs russes ou du poker étasunien, dans lesquels prime la concentration dans la compétition pour les échecs, et le bluff du rapport …
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31 August
Iran vs Taliban? Afghanistan’s Islamic rulers detain Iranian journalist
Mohammad Hossein Velayati, an Iranian photojournalist working for the Tasnim News Agency, was arrested by the Taliban in Kabul. Iran was determined “to pursue securing the release of a photojournalist in Afghanistan,” Iranian President’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan Affairs Hassan Kazemi Qomi said earlier this week. Reports state that Mohammad …
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31 August
Seven killed in Turkish drone strikes on PKK members in northern Iraq
Turkish drone strikes on Thursday killed seven members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) including two medical personnel, in Iraq’s northern province of Erbil, the counter-terrorism service said, as Turkey’s foreign minister visited the region. Three PKK fighters were killed in Sidakan district when a Turkish drone struck their vehicle, …
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31 August
The Price of Fragmentation
Why the Global Economy Isn’t Ready for the Shocks Ahead We are living through turbulent times, in a world that has become richer but also more fragile. Russia’s war in Ukraine has painfully demonstrated that we cannot take peace for granted. A deadly pandemic and climate disasters remind us how …
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