A Bosnian Serb former martial arts fighter has been posting videos and pictures online, documenting his new life as a volunteer soldier with a Russian unit fighting in Ukraine. BIRN was able to track his posts, following his journey to the frontline.
By dragging down Germany and thus weakening its influence over Central & Eastern Europe simultaneously with empowering Poland’s rise as a Great Power over that same strategic space, the US hopes to play their EuroLiberal and EuroRealist blocs off against one another in order to perpetually divide and rule the EU.
Poland is now working hand-in-glove with Germany to turbocharge the latter’s superpower trajectory and especially its military component, which is reshaping European geopolitics and is therefore a development of global importance.
De nombreux citoyens ordinaires du monde entier, y compris aux États-Unis et en Europe, se joignent à la Russie pour honorer comme il se doit le jour de la Victoire.
L’historien russe Roman Shumov a bien saisi la signification sublime du jour de la Victoire. Il a écrit cette semaine : «Pour les Russes, le 9 mai n’est pas seulement la célébration d’un triomphe militaire, c’est la célébration de la victoire sur la mort».
Les gouvernements occidentaux, France en tête, font désormais se succéder sans répit les épisodes de terreur contre leurs populations. Virus manipulé, fausse pandémie, attentats sous fausse bannière, affolement climatique, crises économiques provoquées, menaces de guerre : il s’agit véritablement de placer constamment sous tension les populations. Apeurées, celles-ci sont bien plus manipulables et beaucoup moins susceptibles de se révolter. Contrôler les peuples par la peur est évidemment une technique de pouvoir vieille comme le monde. Mais la stratégie de la tension généralisée à laquelle est soumis aujourd’hui l’Occident – où les États n’hésitent pas à user de méthodes terroristes contre leurs propres populations – trouve son modèle dans l’Italie des années 1970. Ce sont les fameuses «années de plomb», au cours desquelles l’OTAN – par l’intermédiaire de son réseau clandestin Gladio – va organiser d’innombrables attentats sous fausse bannière. À ce jour, la plupart de ces attentats n’ont pas été jugés et leurs commanditaires n’ont jamais été inquiétés. Quant aux États-Unis, ils continuent d’être considérés en Italie comme l’allié principal de la péninsule.
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Hamas said it had “no ties to any acts targeting Jordan” and that it only sought to target Israel
Amman said Wednesday that it foiled a weapons smuggling attempt by a militia supported by an unnamed country in late March. An official Jordanian source added that there had been several attempts to smuggle weapons into Jordan recently including Kalshnikovs and 107mm Katyusha rockets, the Jordanian News Agency reported.
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.
If Trump Pulls Out, the Alliance Would Likely Fall Apart
Last month, NATO, the world’s most successful military alliance, celebrated its 75th anniversary. Some fear that it may have been its last anniversary with the United States playing a leading role. Former U.S. President Donald Trump still views the alliance as obsolete. If reelected, he says he would encourage Russian leaders to do “whatever the hell they want” to member states that do not pay what he considers to be enough for defense. A second Trump presidency could have dire implications for European security.
Latest Developments
Israel conducted a precise strike on a Hamas war room and weapons depot hidden inside of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school located in Nuseirat in Gaza, Jerusalem announced on May 14. Israeli intelligence believes that Hamas recently used the war room to organize attacks against Israeli troops operating in central Gaza. Ten of the 15 terrorists eliminated in the strike were members of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force who likely participated in Hamas’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
President Aleksandar Vučić announced that the first 125 million euros will soon arrive in Serbia as part of the Growth Plan for the Western Balkans. But that this is not an unconditional donation from the European Union, but funds for which our country will have to meet certain standards.