This is not the strategy, by Ankara, to replace the West, but it’s a strategy to strengthen relations with non-Western powers at a time when the US hegemony is waning
Sinan Ülgen evaluates Turkey’s request to join the BRICS economic bloc
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There is no doubt that the Russian armed forces will do everything in their power to raze the city and its logistics to the ground
Gustav Gressel on the Russian advance on the crucial supply hub of Pokrovsk and its impact on the Kursk offensive
It is good for morale and irrelevant for the war; a prolongation of the front on Russian territory would favour Russia in the front line, as Ukrainian forces become more dispersed
The conservative far-right in Western countries is certainly the primary target, as they admire Putin and see him as a defender of traditional values
Marie Dumoulin was cited in an article of Marianne discussing Putin’s offer of asylum to Westerners attached to “traditional values.”
On August 6, the Ukrainian army entered Russian territory in the Kursk region. In a video published by Le Soir, Marie Dumoulin analyzes the possible motivations behind this offensive
The scenario of taking territorial pledges with a view to negotiations makes sense at first sight“, even if ‘we don’t yet know the Ukrainians’ tactical objectives”
In an article of Le Parisien, Marie Dumoulin discusses the strategic implications of Ukraine potentially using captured Russian territory as bargaining leverage in future negotiations
Russia still detains a number of Western citizens and hundreds of Russian political prisoners and may want to use them for future swaps
Marie Dumoulin analyses the ethical and strategic dilemmas and considerations that arise for Western countries when negotiating prisoner exchanges with Moscow