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West Bank: 2 Soldiers Killed, 8 Hurt in Shooting Attack at Checkpoint February 04, 2025

Western Governments Are Funding the Persecution of Jews February 04, 2025

We know UNRWA has intimate links with Hamas, so why are we giving it money?...

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Explosions by Israeli Military Destroy Buildings in the West Bank February 03, 2025

We Must Fight China’s New Space Race February 01, 2025

This week’s launch of DeepSeek’s R1 must serve as a wake-up call for America and the West. ...

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The Unfulfilled Promise of the West October 21, 2024

On October 8th, I attended a conference organised by the Canal Foundation and Musealia. Entitled “The Promise of the West....

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The Case Against Pessimism October 21, 2024

When I began working on the history of the Soviet Union, in the 1990s, survivors and historians alike were free to speak as they wished. Many of them felt as if a new Russia could be constructed on top of the fundamental, historical truths that were ...

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The BRICS Effect October 21, 2024

A new age of international relations is dawning. With the West accounting for a declining share of global GDP, and the world becoming increasingly multipolar, countries are jostling to establish their positions in the emerging order. This includes bo...

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Moldova Faces a Tug of War Between Russia and the West October 19, 2024

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While the West Dithers, Russia Slowly Advances October 18, 2024

There is an odd sense of paralysis in Brussels, the capital of the European Union. Everyone is waiting for the presidential election in the United States, and the confirmation hearings of a new European Commission. ...

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Can the West Survive Four Years of Harris or Trump? October 18, 2024

Great empires always fall, pushed by their own leaders. Just think of the role played in Britain’s decline by the Liberals who blundered into the First World War, permanently crippling the world’s dominant empire. ...

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What It Will Take to Stop Russia October 17, 2024

With Ukraine’s situation becoming increasingly precarious, it is time to confront, head-on, the most dangerous of the many illusions entertained by the Western strategic community in relation to this war: the notion that peace is in Ukraine’s and the...

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Xi’s Economic Bazooka May Had Misfired October 14, 2024

China’s annual “Golden Week” is typically a time for travelling, spending time with family and tucking into festive treats like moon cakes and hairy crabs. ...

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The Global South Fears the Biden-Harris Administration’s Policy Agenda October 14, 2024

What is President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s foreign policy plan? That’s a question that few have answers to, but for hundreds of millions of people in the developing world the stakes could not be higher.East Africa faith leaders are ra...

A Test Between Europe and Russia in Georgia October 12, 2024

This month, millions of Georgias will gather to vote in the parliamentary elections. The stakes could not be higher.Over the past few years, the ruling Georgian Dream party has started to backslide on anticorruption reforms. Members of the ruling par...

Why Is the West Comfortable With Azerbaijan October 12, 2024

In principle, we do not like autocrats. We also clearly condemn ethnic cleansing practices. And in theory, authoritarian regimes ruled by despotic families are the exact opposite of what we stand for. In practice, however, things are quite different....

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A Clash Between the West and Its Rivals October 12, 2024

It’s a flood. Having generated more than 80 Hebrew books by June, the October 7 massacre by Hamas is expected to yield by the end of the year hundreds of published eulogies, analyses, and personal accounts, all of which will be but a prelude to the f...

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The East-West Battle for Serbia October 12, 2024

Serbia, like Yugoslavia, before it, has long been a major prize in the East-West struggle for ascendancy in Europe. In this East-West rivalry there is no way to stop foreign influences from entering Serbia, at least not in the short-term, especially...

Serbia

Cooler Heads Must Prevail Between U.S. & Iran October 11, 2024

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz recently declared, “Israel is trapping Iran and America.”If that is true, perhaps the U.S. and Iran should cooperate to extricate themselves from that trap.In the wake of the most recent exchange of fire between Israel a...

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A Year After October 7, Iran is Still the Problem October 11, 2024

The West’s obsessive search for diplomatic “off-ramps” and its fear of escalation and the use of force have only encouraged the burgeoning aggression from Tehran. ...

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Israel Is Right, the West Must Stop Holding It Back October 10, 2024

Who ever thought that world leadership could come from Canada? Not from hopeless bimbo Justin Trudeau, of course, but from Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre. ...

Israel

Shifting Goals Cloud Utility of Sanctions on Russia October 10, 2024

The West's economic war on Moscow post Ukraine invasion has had limited near term success ...

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China Is Gearing up for a War With the West October 10, 2024

At the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Plenum in July, Xi Jinping outlined a major programme for reviving the economy. ...

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Why Russia’s Influence in Africa Is Under Threat October 10, 2024

While Russia remains a potent player in parts of Africa, recent events in the Sahelian states have shown that Russian forces are deeply overstretched and losing credibility. It is obvious to all involved that Moscow has no solutions – which leaves a ...

Russia

The U.S. Must Confront the Multi-Front War Against the West October 09, 2024

October 7th is the first anniversary of the unprovoked attack and murder of Israeli citizens by Hamas in Gaza. A year later, kidnapped innocents remained as hostages to Iran's goal of making Israel uninhabitable by Jews, causing the Jewish people to...

What the West could learn from Israel October 09, 2024

Abrief update from Agence France Presse underscores the shift in power in the Middle East. The report, citing a German source, tells us that Joe Biden ‘plans to meet the leaders of Germany, France and Britain in Berlin on Saturday to discuss the Midd...

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