A new phase of the war is being declared by both Israel and Hezbollah. People on both sides are getting a taste of what that looks and feels like. Rockets and bombs rained down on both sides. Hundreds already died in Lebanon. Tens of thousands of civilians fled south of the country heading north. Hezbollah […]
the Russian economy will start to suffer badly by next summer, approximately, and it will get harder and harder for Russia to mobilize enough soldiers for the war.It also fuels that notion that Ukraine has to agree to a peace deal soon because there’s no way that they can outlast Russia. The war between Ukraine […]
President Vladimir Putin has warned the West that Russia could use nuclear weapons if it was struck with conventional missiles. The Russian leader presented changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine at a meeting of the country’s Security Council. Putin said a nuclear power supporting an attack on Russia would now be considered a joint aggressor. Mariana, […]
Is Turkey becoming the leader of the Islamic world? Having long separated itself from its religious roots under its current president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has sought to re-establish its standing amongst the world’s Muslim majority states and shape broader opinion on critical issues. Most recently, Erdogan has called for an Islamic alliance against Israel. […]
the BRICS really emerging as the primary challenger: to Western dominance in international relations? In recent years, the group is increasingly seen as an alternative global power block, taking on the United States and its allies. Originally made up of Russia, India, China and Brazil, it’s now expanded to nine members, Power Blocks are a […]
While we often think of civil wars as conflicts between a group or a region and the central government, they can also arise in power struggles between different peoples and territories within a state. which the national government must then contain. In the most extreme cases, numerous different groups can fight each other in what […]
Kirillopotanov, who is the head of the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence, said that Russia is aiming to win the war by 2025 or early 2026, because that’s about as long as the Russian war machine will work before it starts running into some very serious bottlenecks. And according to Podanov, the Russian economy will start to […]
The Americans had planned to take the fight directly to the Houthis, whereas their European allies sought to provide escort missions through their own separate task, named Operation Aspides. Six months on, however, the Houthis remain undeterred, and more than 100 incidents have been reported with no end in sight. On the contrary, June saw […]
The operation, which marked Israel’s first direct involvement in the country: came in response to Houthi strikes against Tel Aviv the week prior. Yet such strikes also occur in the context of the broader Red Sea crisis. In October 2023, in response to the Gaza conflict, the Houthis began a partial blockade of the Bab […]
Russia is one of the strongest economies in the world: It’s doing much better than the USA, the UK, Australia, and all of the West. And that assumption is based on what’s happening with GDP. And we see in the press quite frequently that Russia is growing strongly, its GDP figure is forging ahead percentage […]