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Showing posts with label Proxy Wars. Show all posts
06 October 2025

Al-Sharaa, Petraeus, and the End of the War on Terror: A Most Revealing Episode at the UN General Assembly

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Recently Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly al-Julani) met with David Petraeus at the UN General Assembly. It was a unique moment that quite a few ne...
29 July 2025

Erdogan, the Kurds, and the Caucasus

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https://www.politico.eu/article/abdullah-ocalan-pkk-recep-tayyip-erdogan-turkey-kurdistan/ https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Turkey-celebrate...
16 March 2025

A Chronicle of Lies

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https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-01-30/gaza-middle-east-lies/ This is a helpful summary and reminder of the scope and magnitude of d...
14 December 2024

The Shattering of Syria

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The fall of the Assad regime is by all accounts a monumental development in the history of the modern Middle East, and it came rapidly and u...
31 March 2023

The Wider Implications of The Ukraine War (II)

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The hypocritical and frankly spurious ICC indictment of Putin for war crimes was timed perfectly to coincide with Xi's recent trip to Mo...

The Wider Implications of The Ukraine War (I)

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These are mostly points that have been touched on over the past year and even well before the war erupted in February 2022. However, some of...
24 January 2022

The Ukraine Trap

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If Russia invades Ukraine, then Putin will fall for the trap NATO has set for him. As anyone who partakes of any news is sure to know, the W...
16 January 2022

The Geopolitics of the Kazakhstan Protests, the Ukraine Crisis, and Eurasia's New Cold War (II)

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The Central Asian states which were run by former Soviet apparatchiks (turned into authoritarian capitalists) relied upon energy revenue and...
06 December 2020

Asian Tensions and the Clash of Empires: Trump, Xi and the 19th Congress of the CCP

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Has Xi extended his power or has he been rebuked and curtailed by elements within the Beijing bureaucracy? It depends on how you read the 19...
20 November 2020

Afghanistan and Iraq at the End of the Trump Era

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The panicked reaction to Trump's planned troop withdrawal from both Iraq and Afghanistan has been palpable. The media and the US Establi...
12 October 2019

A New Phase in the Syria War: The Kurds Betrayed Again and the Turkish Invasion of Rojava

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I've been writing about Syria and the Kurds for many years as I was fascinated by these topics long before they became part of the nig...
04 August 2019

Refugees, Clashing Empires, Signs of the Times and the Christian Calling

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http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/05/c_138201998.htm https://www.csis.org/analysis/can-united-states-prevent-uganda-reaching-brea...
19 August 2018

The Horn of Africa, Geopolitics and the Persecution of Christians

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Recently some thirty-five Christians were released from prison in Eritrea. Is this a sign of future toleration or a case of symbolic amnes...
24 June 2018

Romania and the Prospect of Moldovan Reunification: NATO's Ostsiedlung Programme

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https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/romanias-parliament-open-to-moldova-reunification-idea/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/...
25 March 2018

Hanoi and Rome

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http://www.lastampa.it/2018/03/09/vaticaninsider/eng/world-news/bishops-of-vietnam-the-church-committed-to-education-and-society-pOpzCxYHD...