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Director of Conflicts Forum; Former Senior British Diplomat; Author.
The Right was shoved outside the cordon sanitaire -- ‘beyond the pale’ in terms of being allowed to have some influence over EU politics.
Last November, in the Washington Post, Robert Kagan described Trump as a deadly meteor headed for earth.
A time of imponderables has arrived. War never proceeds according to plan.
The Biden-faction within Brussels is wholly invested in the US project for escalation of the war in Ukraine against Russia
Issues such as immigration, falling living standards, and anger at the Green Agenda played a big part in the election ‘mutiny’, but the Ukraine war is central (though its centrality is never explicitly admitted).
The last effort to ‘get Hamas to ‘yes’’ by glossing the text to specify a phase-two ‘end to conflict’, and a complete withdrawal of all Israeli forces from all Gaza, subsequently was angrily disavowed by the Israeli government.
Netanyahu paradoxically possesses more leverage over key institutional power-structures in the US than does the White House to pursue his government’s second “War of Independence”.
Slovakia is deeply polarised: There is, on one side, a strongly pro-EU faction, who have scorned particularly the long-serving PM’s opposition to the West’s Ukraine policy.
Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, as the spokesman for the unity of Resistance Fronts, has made clear that the aim of the Resistance is to exhaust "Israel".
The dilemma for 'Israel' is, should the US say ‘no’ to a strike on Iran (and actually mean it), 'Israel' is left to wallow in a clutch of defeats on all six fronts, plus fraying public trust.
