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December 13, 2024

European authorities are pretty sure someone is deliberately cutting their undersea cables and scrambling ships’ navigation systems in the Baltic Sea, and they are pretty sure Russia is involved. They are probably right. With its war against Ukraine occupying most of Russia’s military resources, and Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO threatening to turn the […]

Daily Memo: Ethiopia and Somalia Agree to Squash Feud

December 12, 2024

Path to peace? Ethiopia and Somalia agreed to end their feud over Addis Ababa’s signing in January of a port access deal with the...

Romania Takes an Election Mulligan

December 12, 2024

Romania’s 2024 presidential election was annulled earlier this month due to foreign interference. In the first round, held on Nov. 24, independent candidate Calin...

Daily Memo: Macron Headed for Warsaw, Russia-China Talks

December 11, 2024

France and Poland. French President Emmanuel Macron will fly to Warsaw on Thursday, reportedly to discuss a plan for a possible European postwar peacekeeping...

The Weakness of Israel’s Approach to War

December 11, 2024

The Middle East has broken down into a state of extreme combat. The collapse of the system of governance throughout the region has opened...

Daily Memo: Belarus’ Nuclear Weapons, Europe’s ‘Crisis of Leadership’

December 10, 2024

Belarus and nuclear defense. During a visit to a manufacturing plant in the Belarusian city of Borisov, President Alexander Lukashenko confirmed that his country...

After the Fall of Assad, the Middle East Braces for Unrest

December 10, 2024

Jubilant crowds in some of Syria’s biggest and most politically significant cities toppled statues of former President Hafez Assad over the past week, in...

Daily Memo: Israel Captures Golan Heights, Russia and US in Waiting Mode

December 9, 2024

Moving in. Following the overthrow of Bashar Assad’s regime, Israeli forces seized control of the demilitarized Golan Heights buffer zone separating southwestern Syria and...

The Syrian Government Has Fallen. Now What?

December 9, 2024

The Assad regime, which had ruled Syria for nearly half a century, fell over the weekend after rebels took control the capitol of Damascus....

Daily Memo: Rebels Advance in Syria

December 6, 2024

Advancing to Hama. The leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the insurgent group that led the rebellion against Syrian government forces in Aleppo last week,...