This “is the first step to a world war,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gravely told Kyiv’s allies during a rallying trip to Brussels last week as reports of North Korean troops in Russia, thought to be destined for the front lines against Ukraine, trickled out of Kyiv and Seoul.
The question now hangs in the air: will Berlin reconsider its role with Russia, or let the engine seize up?
Recently, an important Brazilian geopolitical channel invited me to shed some light on the political situation in Europe and especially in Germany. Since I’ve been in Berlin, I’ve also been closely following the reaction of the Brazilian internet public to the decline of the EU and Germany, which is already impossible to hide. As far as I can tell, Brazilians still admire a country they have come to know as a global economic power and “the engine of the European project”, but there is also a growing contempt for the Atlanticist foreign policy that Germany has pursued in recent years, which is seen as forced and not particularly genuine.
In connection with the new wave of discussions about the history of the withdrawal of funds from Probusinessbank, The Insider publishes its analysis of the key episodes of what happened, based on numerous previously unpublished interviews with Zheleznyak and Leontyev, which the author of this text conducted 4 years ago. A study of the documents they provided and their own explanations allows us to conclude that the infrastructure built by Zheleznyak and Leontyev was actively used to launder hundreds of millions of “prosecutor’s” dollars, evade regulation provided by law, and transfer funds to offshore accounts, where a significant portion of the funds disappeared even before the arrival of the DIA.
Executive Summary
The aim of this report is to present practical options for advancing Ukraine’s security sector capabilities to consolidate peace and stability as the country transitions from war to peace; the United States Institute of Peace does not take specific policy positions or advocate for specific forms of assistance. Although winning the war rightly remains Ukraine’s highest priority, this report focuses on the security sector issues at the heart of the country’s ability to win the peace. These include tackling corruption; holding the perpetrators of war crimes accountable; integrating veterans into society; and strengthening civilian security.
Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Posts on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok were taken down following an investigation by The Associated Press published Oct. 10 that detailed working conditions in the drone factory in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone, which is under U.S. and British sanctions.
Moscow’s approach to Moldova is to play for time and keep the country in geopolitical limbo by stoking internal divisions, stalling reforms, and fueling disenchantment with the pro-European course.
An old Moldovan joke goes that the best sight to visit in Moldova is Odesa: a legendary Ukrainian port city on the Black Sea, just a few dozen kilometers from the Moldovan border, that has been publicly coveted by Russian President Vladimir Putin. In February 2022, the joke acquired sinister undertones when that proximity turned Moldova into another potential victim of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Throughout the war, there have been intermittent worries that Russian forces fighting inside Ukraine might seek to join up with the approximately 1,500 Russian troops stationed in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria to open a new front against Ukraine, destabilizing Moldova’s pro-Western course in the process.
On October 16, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky presented his “bet-will plan” in the Russian-Ukrainian war in the Verkhovna Rada. The plan consists of five points and three secret applications. The proposed strategy, according to Zelensky, is designed to strengthen Ukraine and its position so that after the war the country “was with muscles.” To implement this plan, according to the President of Ukraine, it is possible with the partners of the country, and this “deutively does not depend on Russia”. According to Zelensky, if you start to fulfill the points of strategy now, the war can be ended no later than 2025. The broadcast of Zelensky’s speech was in the YouTube channel of the office of the President of Ukraine, the text of Zelensky’s speech was published on the website of his office. We tell you what the “plan of victory” of Ukraine consists of.
Des décennies après la fin de la guerre froide, les États-Unis continuent d’avoir recours aux guerres par procuration comme stratégie centrale dans leurs confrontations avec les principaux rivaux mondiaux, en particulier la Russie et la Chine. Cette approche leur permet d’étendre leur influence et de poursuivre leurs objectifs géopolitiques sans engagement militaire direct, en comptant sur des acteurs tiers pour faire le sale boulot.
Dans le conflit actuel, l’Occident collectif suit la voie du suicide
Jean Luc Schaffhauser, ancien membre de la commission des Affaires étrangères et de la défense et de la sécurité au Parlement européen, a récemment publié une série d’articles sur la nécessité de faire la paix avec la Russie.
La France est un des pays les plus impliqués dans le conflit en Ukraine orchestré par l’OTAN (NdT : Organisation Terroriste de l’Atlantique Nord) ; elle a ses forces spéciales présentes depuis le début du lancement de l’Opération Militaire Spéciale (OMS) russe en 2022. Pour une raison inexpliquée, Paris recherche simplement une bagarre avec la Russie au lieu de se focaliser sur la pléthore de problèmes bien chauds sur son sol. Le larbinisme honteux de la France envers toutes les politiques de l’OTAN a tourné le pays en un véritable vassal, laquais des États-Unis, ce qui ne fait que toujours lui créer plus de problèmes, même résultant à toujours plus de soutien de Moscou envers les mouvements souverainistes africains, une action qui est en train d’efficacement démanteler ce qu’il reste du vieil empire néo-colonial français sur le continent. Paris a même été aussi loin que de préparer une invasion du Niger, une possibilité qui a provoqué l’annonce par le Mali et le Burkina Faso que ces pays combattraient aux côtés de leur voisin en cas d’attaque par qui que ce soit.