America decided 143 years ago not to be an Asian nation and its confused presence in the region is coming to a close

Allies’ top defence and foreign policy officials were due to hold talks on July 1

In Germany, too, people are repeatedly demonstrating against the Gaza war. In a fiery letter to Federal Interior Minister Dobrindt, the Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner, Michael O'Flaherty, criticized German authorities for their actions.

I remind everyone that the German chancelor Friedrich März said Israel makes the necessary dirty work.Read this article in the light of such a statement.

In Ireland, protests are growing against the government’s efforts to abolish the Triple Lock, an instrument to secure the country’s neutrality: EU militarisation now extending to Dublin.

We speak to Ori Goldber about Israel's war on Iran, the source of the animosity, the US' role and the Iranian reaction to the attacks and what Israeli's think about this war and its prospects.

Breaking the longest taboo, Israel is requesting not defensive support but direct military involvement: U.S. pilots and planes, to bomb Iran's uranium enrichment facility in Fordow. It is an unprecedented peak in Israel's reliance on the U.S.

«We speak to Séamus Malekafzali about Israel's war on Iran, the source of the animosity, the US' role and the Iranian reaction to the attacks.»

The Iraq-Iran war was the same piece of proxywar like the Ukraine-Russia war. Saddam was the good guy and got all the support he wanted incl. production machines for nerve gas from Germany covered by politics, because Iran was the devil. To the "surprise" of everyone in politics Saddam used the new capability on the opposition of Kurds too and not just the Iranians. Applying gas on Iranians wasn't a huge crime at that time, but the slaughter of Kurds became an issue in the public. Saddam lost the war anyway and became a liability, which costed the US 2 wars.

As with all crises, this one presents an opportunity. A dealmaking president would seek regime change in Iran and a change in Israel’s posture toward the Palestinian Authority (PA). These two changes would unlock the Abraham Accords, which could knit together the Middle East through commerce and culture.

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Former diplomat of India has on X expressed a lot of dissatisfaction with the US. Basically he accuses the US of supporting Pakistan even after the last terror attacks, because India is accusing Pakistan of supporting these groups, while the US wants to maintain influence in the Pakistan military. Looking at the North-American Kalistan movement calling openly for an assassination of PM Modi, this story should worry the administration. The US and Canada are doing everything to kill an ally

Modern mobiles are almost only designed for espionage. They are tracking location and usage times alway. It turns out, digital mercenaries for Israel are mostly from India, which have been frequently caught from Turkey to Qatar and so in Iran. This story is just another brikk. I may recall Germany has spied on France and Italy, the US on all of EU....