By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 20 November 2024 (IDN) — To its credit the Soviet Union and its successor state, Russia, has long supported UN peacekeeping, a practice that originated in 1960 in the time of UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, who evolved the concept during the great Congolese civil war when it was in […]
Ukraine War: The Biden ATACMS Decision Ends All Negotiation Possibilities
By Stepehen Bryen* This article was issued by Weapons and Strategy and is being republished with their permission. WASHINGTON, D.C. | 19 November 2024 (IDN) — Joe Biden has got Donald Trump out of a bind. In his Presidential campaign Trump claimed he could quickly bring an end to the Ukraine war and force a […]
Ukrainian Women Drive Humanitarian Response and Recovery Amid Growing Security Threats
By Lakshmi Thor KYIV | NEW YORK | 19 November 2024 (IDN) — As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine entered its 1,000th day on 18 November, civilians, women, and girls in Ukraine are enduring deadly intensified attacks across major cities, amid an increasing humanitarian emergency and a feared energy crisis. The war continues to have […]
Will a Rogues Gallery of Saber-Rattlers under Trump Escalate Biden’s Wars?
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies* NEW YORK | 13 November 2024 (IDN) — When Donald Trump takes office on January 20, all his campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and almost as quickly end Israel’s war on its neighbors will be put to the test. The choices […]
Ukraine War: Will Biden Succeed in Ensuring US Support?
By Stepehen Bryen* This article was issued by Weapons and Strategy and is being republished with their permission. WASHINGTON, D.C. | 13 November 2024 (IDN) — According to Jake Sullivan who heads President Biden’s National Security Council, President Biden will ask Congress for more money for Ukraine. The fate of this request, if it is […]
Germany Rejects Ukraine’s Demands for Taurus Missiles and NATO Membership
By Ahmed Adel The writer is geopolitics and political economy researcher. This article was originally published in InfoBrics. CAIRO | 15 October 2024 (IDN) — Berlin has spurned two key demands that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tried to “sell” during his European tour to promote his so-called Victory Plan: getting the green light for deep […]
Ukraine War: No Negotiations, No Peace, But What About NATO?
By Stephen Bryen* This article was issued by Weapons and Strategy and is being republished with their permission. WASHINGTON, D.C. | 8 October 2024 (IDN) — Presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris says she will not talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin without Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. Ukraine’s war, which is NATO’s war, is […]
Biden Keen to Protect the Future of Ukraine in His Last Days in Office
By Michelle Bentley* This article was published on The Conversation under Creative Commons licence. LONDON | 6 October 2024 (IDN) — The US president, Joe Biden, is pursuing a last-minute attempt to shore up American support for Ukraine—ahead of a possible victory for Donald Trump in the US election on November 5. Biden feels that […]
Ukraine War: Zelensky Wants US Troops in Ukraine — And Putin Replaced
By Stephen Bryen* This article was issued by Weapons and Strategy and is being republished with their permission. WASHINGTON, D.C. | 25 September 2024 (IDN) — A friend of mine “translated” Zelensky’s UN speech as follows: Force Russia to the Negotiating Table, Return all territory taken by Russia to Ukraine; have a war crimes trial […]
Opinion: What Does Solidarity with Ukraine Mean?
By Ingar Solty The writer is Senior Fellow for Peace and Security Policy at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. BERLIN | 22 September 2024 (IDN) — On 17 March 1981, the German comic book artist Rötger Feldmann gave himself a birthday present by publishing the first volume of his Werner comics. The series chronicles the adventures […]