Pisskov exactly four years ago, on February 20, 2022: "We appeal to reason! What sense would it make for Russia to attack anyone?! Russia has never attacked anyone in its entire history. Russia is the last country in Europe to even utter the word 'war.'" Four days later, Putin

1967: United Arab Republic (Egypt/Syria) postage stamp and poster: 'Our Egyptian and Syrian forces are preparing for war.' What do we notice about the map of Palestine?

The delegations from the UK and France joined the talks between Russia, the US, and Ukraine in Geneva without being invited. I think this really messed up the plans to quickly "sort everything out" behind Europe's back and push for the annexation of Donbas — which is obviously

"Shamkhani’s chairmanship of the Defense Council, combined with his alliance with Ghalibaf, his extensive domestic financial, political, and security networks, and his working relationships with foreign actors, places him in a favorable position to help manage political

In an unprecedented development that signals a total restructuring of the Middle Eastern security architecture, Israeli Air Force (IAF) aerial refueling tankers have been detected operating openly within Syrian airspace. This marks the first recorded instance in history where

Recorded back in the 1960s, John Cleese (of Monty Python fame) made an excellent satirical commentary exposing the friend-enemy distinction as being at the heart of both far-left and rar-right extremism, inter alia, including its psychological appeal.

Never forget where Trump got the idea of Tariff’s from.

Former Oxfam CEO Helima Begum, who happens to be Muslim, says the organization has an antisemitism problem and a major obsession with Israel to the point they pushed the genocide myth without checks in the Gaza war

Blink and miss it. After yrs denying & avoiding its staff work beside & include militants ("We know fucking well they're in the hospital": @msf staffer) Doctors without Borders says "armed men, some masked" are halting “non-critical” operations at Gaza's Nasser hospital. No

1/5 The New York Fed finds that "U.S. firms and consumers continue to bear the bulk of the economic burden of the high tariffs imposed in 2025." https://t.co/X3Xz2tRn1j

Le prince Bandar, ancien ambassadeur d’Arabie saoudite aux États-Unis, a reconnu qu’Arafat (Abou Ammar) lui avait confié que l’offre de Camp David en 2000 pour un État palestinien était « dix fois meilleure qu’Oslo ». Il a qualifié le refus d’Arafat d’« occasion manquée », dont «

🧵From my two-apart series on religiosity: Iran and Turkey are both experiencing rapid secularization. The common thread? Political Islam corrodes the very religious authority it claims to embody. When faith becomes a tool of state power, it loses its legitimacy as a source of

The Iranian rial has lost half its value in six month. No way back from this for the Islamic Republic.

Iran BeiDou and the Chinese integration Iran's official decision to abandon GPS is tied to the precision of its missiles. Iranian officials blame Israeli-imposed jamming during the 13-day war for the reduced accuracy of several missile models. But as I mentioned yesterday,

In 2019, Chinese consumers accounted for 35% of global luxury spending — the undisputed kings of the high-end world. By 2025? That share has collapsed to 23%. That’s a 12 percentage point drop — a brutal 34% relative decline in just six years. The Chinese property market — the

Cracks appeared. The purge followed. The arrest of prominent political activists in Iran signals that the Islamic Republic is facing serious fractures within its political and administrative elite. By condemning the January killings and calling on Khamenei to step aside, a group

Stellantis semi-exit from electric cars and its decision to refocus on fuel-driven cars just goes to show how Europe’s car cartel underestimated how difficult it would be to make and sell electric cars. The next big battle the Europeans are about to lose will be over the

Authorities in #Iran have arrested three reformists: Azar Mansouri, secretary-general of the reformist Union of Islamic Iran People Party; Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, a reformist political activist and former diplomat; and Mohsen Aminzadeh, a former deputy foreign minister under

Une vague d'arrestations de personnalités politiques réformatrices de premier plan a eu lieu ces dernières 24 heures en Iran. Au moins quatre d'entre elles ont été arrêtées hier et ce matin par les forces de sécurité

« Quelle ambition pour l’outre-mer français ? », article paru récemment à la revue Conflits sous la plume d'un excellent auteur. https://t.co/kLOzD3XZin