War Unbound

Gaza, Ukraine, and the Breakdown of International Law

Hamas’s attack on Israel and Israel’s response to it have been a disaster for civilians. In its October 7 massacre, Hamas sought out unarmed Israeli civilians, including women, children, and the elderly, killing close to 1,200 people and taking around 240 hostages. Israel’s subsequent air and ground campaign in Gaza has, as of March 2024, killed more than 30,000 people, an estimated two-thirds of whom were women and children. The Israeli offensive has also displaced some two million people (more than 85 percent of the population of Gaza), left more than a million people at risk of starvation, and damaged or destroyed some 150,000 civilian buildings. Today, there is no functional hospital left in northern Gaza. Hamas, Israel maintains, uses civilian structures as shields, operating in them or in tunnels beneath them—perhaps precisely because such buildings have been considered off-limits for military operations under international law.

Les enseignements de Clausewitz et les antagonismes historiques contemporains

Paix dictée ou paix négociée en Ukraine ?

Le 28 avril dernier Jens Stoltenberg, secrétaire général de l’OTAN en visite à Kiev, a rassuré formellement Volodymyr Zelensky que la guerre contre la Russie pouvait être encore gagnée par l’Ukraine et il a réaffirmé : «La Russie doit bien le comprendre. Elle ne pourra pas gagner. Elle ne pourra pas nous avoir à l’usure !»

Le grand hold-up de l’Ukraine n’est pas encore terminé

«La guerre, c’est la paix». La dette est une bonne chose. La liberté, c’est l’esclavage. Nous vivons dans une société de contre-vérités où le joueur de flûte sera payé, et la dette effacée.

L’encre de la signature du président [Joe] Biden transférant 61 milliards de dollars supplémentaires au trou noir appelé Ukraine avait à peine séché que les médias grand public ont annoncé que cet accord n’était pas le dernier acte d’une politique américaine vouée à l’échec. Les élites n’ont aucunement l’intention de mettre fin à cette manne qui ponctionne les richesses de la classe moyenne et populaire pour les transférer vers la classe aisée et connectée.

The Georgian State Security Service & The Georgian Legion Are On The Brink Of War

Just like the Azov Battalion and other ultra-nationalists played a key role in the spree of urban terrorism known as EuroMaidan despite their small numbers, so too does the Georgian Legion envisage doing the same in Tbilisi nowadays.

The Georgian State Security Service strongly implied that the Georgian Legion is behind the latest Western-backed regime change attempt. In their words, “These criminal plans involve Georgian nationals currently based abroad, including some Georgians fighting in Ukraine”, and are financed from overseas. This follows Georgian Legion leader Mamuka Mamulashvili accusing them of being controlled by Russia, which he claims turned Georgia into a puppet state, and embedding its spies within his ranks.

US vs. China: Who Really Stands for Peace?

Thousands of innocent civilians are dying– men, women, children– being bombed to death as they sit in their homes. Thousands of Ukrainian and Russian men have been unwillingly drafted into the military, torn from their families, forced to kill each other, and forced to die. Images and videos of cold-blooded genocide plague our news in a constant loop, and our government has the audacity to sit in their comfy little chairs and not only deny what is happening, but to also order more money sent to continue these horrors.

20 Constructive Critiques Of Russia’s Special Operation

Calmly acknowledging setbacks and sharing constructive critiques afterwards aligns with the spirit of what President Putin suggested earlier in the summer when he advised against indulging in wishful thinking. Nobody who sincerely supports this newly restored world power and its de facto leadership of the Global Revolutionary Movement in the New Cold War could in good conscience eschew their moral responsibility to encourage Russia’s self-improvement through these well-intended means.

In Russia’s Hybrid War on Europe, Moldova’s Critical Next 15 Months

How can partners help a young democracy contain conflicts amid key elections?

A rising risk in southeast Europe is Russia’s sharpening of conflicts to block Moldova’s effort to join the European Union. The Kremlin is escalating a hybrid campaign to manipulate three Moldovan elections over the next 15 months. Moscow last week hosted the formation of a political bloc around its primary Moldovan ally, a fugitive billionaire convicted of the country’s worst-ever bank fraud — and sent a startling flood of pre-election cash that police seized at Moldova’s main airport. This is a critical season for Moldova’s democratic allies to help it defeat Russian disinformation and election subversion.

Violence-Oriented Right-Wing Extremist Actors in Russia: Foreign Fighters – Part 2

During the past decade and a half, extremist non-state actors in Russia have become a central element of the violent transnational right-wing extremist milieu. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and particularly its re-invasion of the country in 2022 have afforded these actors far greater opportunities to operate and increase their influence than before. This blog is the thirteenth in a series in which CEP highlights some of the key actors, and analyzes their extremist ideology, modus operandi, and transnational role.

Les États-Unis et le Royaume-Uni poussent à une guerre totale sur tous les fronts

Préambule : Cet article confirme ce que nous pensons également. La guerre en Ukraine est loin d’être terminée, ce n’est qu’une phase de réchauffement. Comme d’habitude, la stratégie occidentale a consisté, dans toutes les guerres précédentes, à se diriger vers une grande conflagration par à-coups. Guerre, pas de guerre ? Chaud et froid. Les espoirs de paix seront remplacés par une nouvelle escalade. C’est la phase où la machine de guerre occidentale teste l’ennemi, sonde ses points faibles, épuise sa population, met en place la psychologie de l’inévitabilité de la guerre et, bien sûr, met en place sa propre économie de guerre.