Category: Geopolitics
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Former Russian President, Now Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman, Dmitri Medvedev, Faults Current U.S. President for Deaths Resulting from Ukraine’s Use of ATACMS To Launch Attacks “Deep into the Territory of Russia,” Late November 2024
During the week of November 19-26, 2024, using his favorite platform, Telegram, as well as making an appearance on Al Arabia TV, former President of Russia and current deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, addressed the right of Russia to respond with nuclear weapons to a missile attack on Russia by…
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Dmitri Medvedev, Former Russian President/Current Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Claims: Ukrainian Defeat Assured Despite Germany Sending Taurus Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine
Following is a November 12, 2024 post by Dmitri Medvedev, former President of Russia and currently Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, to Telegram. In this post, Medvedev is reacting to statements by the Chairman of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz, vowing, if elected, to supply Ukraine with long-range cruise missiles.…
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Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Questions A Trump Presidency’s Ability To Overcome “The System”
Dmitri Medvedev, former President of Russia and current Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, on November 6, 2024, posted a short, succinct message on Telegram, his communication conduit of choice, briefly commenting on expectations under a Trump presidency regarding the situation in Ukraine as well as relations with allies. The language in which he…
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What Many Westerners Don’t Get About The Gaza War
The Blogs Efraim Inbar Efraim Inbar is president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS) and head of the program on Strategy, Diplomacy, and National Security at the Shalem Academic Center. This is a re-posting of a post written for the The Blogs of the internet news site, The Times of Israel, by…
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Putin Portrays SMO as a Spiritual Endeavor in Victory Day Speech, Early May 2024
President of Russia Vladimir Putin, on May 9, 2024, once again used the occasion of the country’s Victory Day celebration as a bully pulpit to denounce the “Western elite” (i.e., the countries of the U.S.-led NATO alliance) for encouraging the former Soviet bloc countries to seek independence, in the wake of which monuments, memorials, and…
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German Antisemitism Commissioner Fears Escalation of Anti-Israel Protests
The internet version of the German-language newspaper Berliner Zeitung reported on Saturday, May 4, 2024, concerning an anti-Israel protest that had occurred the day before on the campus of the Humboldt University in Berlin. One German official voiced the concern that the already widespread feelings of antisemitism could escalate into a protest movement on the…
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Conversion of Turkish Peoples Historically to Russian Orthodoxy Serves To Placate Tensions Between Russians and Turks
Russian internet site https://russtrat.ru, which serves as a propaganda organ for the Putin regime, published an article on its ‘analytics’ page addressing the commonly-held misconception that all Turks are Muslims. The Gagauz ethnic Turkic people are cited as a case in point of those who converted to [Russian] Orthodoxy. Also examined are other Turkic peoples…
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Greece – A Southern Europe Energy Hub
This post contains an abbreviated chronology of the development of the ‘Vertical Corridor,’ a means of supplying natural gas to the countries of Central and East Europe that have been impacted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This energy delivery route is being made possible in large part thanks to the efforts made by Greece to…
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Armenia and Azerbaijan: Baerbock Calls for New Negotiations
German news agency, ZDF, using as its sources the German news agency, dpa, and the French news agency, AFP, published an article on its internet site on November 3, 2023, concerning the invitation by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (of the Alliance 90/Green Party) to Armenia and Azerbaijan to renewed negotiations under her mediation to…
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Shock for German Foreign Minister While in Ukraine, Hurriedly Returns Home, Late February 2024
The Haber Global [World News] Turkish news internet site reported on February 25, 2024, that German Minister of Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock, cut her trip to Ukraine in half because of security concerns. She was visiting the Black Sea port at Mykolaiv. The spokesperson for the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Foreign…
The Dragon is Slain 