INTL CONFLICTS
Information and updates on international conflicts
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What are false flag attacks – and could Russia make one work in the information age?
By Scott Radnitz, University of Washington In the past few weeks, U.S. officials have warned several times that Russia plans…
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Russia on the warpath? Or is peace at hand today?
Just before former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev made his stunning criticism of the West that, since the fall of the…
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Joe Biden’s secret target in Ukraine
The US will take advantage of the Ukrainian crisis to try to replace Russia’s European energy dependency (40% of the…
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Yugoslavia and Rwanda – was it ever ethnic war?
The divisions and tensions in some parts of ex-Yugoslavia appear to be boiling up again. The leadership of the Serbian…
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Does Poland hold the key to de-escalating Russian-NATO tensions?
The Wall Street Journal reported a few days ago that Poland proposed reciprocal inspections of its own US air defense…
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Could Russia legally use nuclear weapons in response to a U.S. intervention in Ukraine?
By Anthony J. Colangelo There is an ominous new development in the potential Russian invasion of the Ukraine and the…
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Message to the US and Russia: don’t think about nuclear war
War over Ukraine? It mustn’t be. Some of us believed that at the end of the Cold War in 1991…
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The Ukraine crisis – the other side
By Raphael Lapin “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery…
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The US risks losing its influence in the Horn of Africa. Here’s how to get it back
By Gabriel Negatu Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his freshly resigned Sudanese counterpart, Abdalla Hamdok, are arguably the most…
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US-Israel agreement to attack Iran?
The successive Jewish military offensives against Gaza and the West Bank have always been protected by the “spiral of silence”…
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