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View from USA: Washington celebrates islamists’ victory in Syria

10:51 12.12.2024

View from USA: Washington celebrates islamists’ victory in Syria

Washington finally completed its dirty war in Syria, writes Antiwar.com. What started as a CIA covert operation to smuggle weapons and jihadists from Libya to Syria has resulted in Syria leader Bashar al-Assad being deposed and replaced by Abu Mohammad al-Julani. Julani found his way to Damascus by rising through …

‘The Economist’: The three forces that will shape 2025

10:50 12.12.2024

‘The Economist’: The three forces that will shape 2025

What happens when the world’s biggest economy takes a sharp protectionist turn? When the global superpower decides that a transactional foreign policy beats alliances? And when the reset takes place as wars rage, menacing adversaries join forces and artificial intelligence (AI) is changing everything from health care to warfare? The …

View from Washington: Obstacles to a Ukraine settlement

10:49 12.12.2024

View from Washington: Obstacles to a Ukraine settlement

President Donald Trump reluctantly met with Volodymyr Zelensky and Emanuel Macron in Paris to discuss the way forward in Ukraine. While Trump says that he has convinced Zelensky to move ahead with negotiations with Russia, Zelensky is already wiggling on any commitments he may have made. Nor is a negotiation …

Foreign Ministry statement on the Kiev regime’s attack on IAEA staff

19:33 11.12.2024

Foreign Ministry statement on the Kiev regime’s attack on IAEA staff

Foreign Ministry statement on the Kiev regime’s attack on IAEA staff: “During a planned rotation of IAEA Secretariat staff at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant on December 10, the armed forces of Ukraine carried out a series of strikes on the official vehicle used for the rotation of Agency personnel. …

Desertion threatens to starve Ukraine’s forces at a crucial time

12:37 11.12.2024

Desertion threatens to starve Ukraine’s forces at a crucial time

Desertion is starving the Ukrainian army of desperately needed manpower and crippling its battle plans at a crucial time in its war with Russia, which could put Kyiv at a clear disadvantage in future ceasefire talks, writes ‘The Defense News’. Facing every imaginable shortage, tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops, …

To save France from bankruptcy, Macron may take the savings of all French people

12:36 11.12.2024

To save France from bankruptcy, Macron may take the savings of all French people

Jean-Pierre Fourcade (photo), former Minister of Finance, proposes “using the savings of the French to finance the debt”, writes French ‘Business Bourse’. Jean-Pierre Fourcade, former Minister of Finance, recently suggested mobilizing the savings of the French to cover the public debt. Such a measure raises many questions, particularly on respect …

View from USA: Assad falls. What's next?

12:35 11.12.2024

View from USA: Assad falls. What's next?

After more than a decade of civil war, it looks like a group the US calls terrorists are taking over, stresses ‘The Responsible Statecraft’. Embattled Syrian President Bashar al Assad, who had survived attempts to overthrow his government throughout a civil war that began in 2011, has been forced out …

View from London: Who will rule Syria now the Assad regime has been toppled?

12:33 11.12.2024

View from London: Who will rule Syria now the Assad regime has been toppled?

Syrians are hoping for a peaceful transition of power. They may not get it, writes ‘The Economist’. In Damascus and across the country, Syrians were cheering a fresh start and a reboot of their relations with the world. What kind of fresh start will they get? Much depends on whether …

View from Cairo: The Fall of Assad and the Power vacuum – a dangerous opportunity for extremist groups

11:55 10.12.2024

View from Cairo: The Fall of Assad and the Power vacuum – a dangerous opportunity for extremist groups

After more than a decade of devastation and conflict, Syria is at a crossroads, with the collapse of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime marking the end of an era. The brutal civil war, which began with peaceful protests in 2011, has left the country in ruins, with millions dead, displaced, and …

View from USA: The new risks are huge with Assad gone

11:51 10.12.2024

View from USA: The new risks are huge with Assad gone

Washington awoke on Sunday morning to a new reality, notes ‘The New York Times’. It is perhaps the most momentous upheaval yet in the 14 months since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel unleashed a wave of violent retaliation that changed the region’s power dynamics. Now, with Mr. al-Assad’s …

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