Russia
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The events of October 7 were the consequence of the brutish conditions of life Israel has imposed on the Palestinians over generations. Those conditions produced Hamas and produced October 7. Israel was, and is, content in imposing these brutish conditions of life and it expected the Palestinians to endure them until their will was broken…
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It is the anniversary this month of the complete liberation of Karabakh by the armed forces of Azerbaijan. Most of the regions of Azerbaijan taken by Armenian forces between 1991 and 1994 were reclaimed in November 2020 by the Azerbaijanis during, and as a result of, the 44 Day War. The rump of the former…
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On 15 October the Sunday Times reported that “five former British Defence Secretaries and the ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson have urged Sir Keir Starmer to supply Ukraine with long range Storm Shadow missiles to strike deep inside Russia, even without US backing.” This joint statement was preceded by a week or so of high-profile media…
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During the Great War of 1914 Britain invaded neutral Greece and occupied Salonika with a large force. This operation, far away from the Western front where the war would be decided, was called a “sideshow” by many in England and the French Premier even referred to the army as the “Salonika gardeners”. In Ireland a…
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Two years ago, on 18 July 2022 Ursula von der Leyen, head of the EU Commission, issued a Memorandum of Understanding statement in Baku, noting that because Russian gas supplies were “no longer reliable”, “The European Union has therefore decided to diversify away from Russia and to turn towards more reliable, trustworthy partners. And I…
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James Sharp, former British Ambassador to Baku, was recently interviewed on Caliber, by Orkhan Amashov. The interview dealt with some similarities between the ‘Northern Ireland’ peace process/1998 Belfast, aka Good Friday Agreement, and the current, stalled Armenia-Azerbaijan peace negotiations. The focus of the interview was on the reluctance of Yerevan to meet Baku’s demand to…
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“My interest in Persia was aroused some years ago by the writings and the speeches of Professor Browne, and my interest to it was attracted because I have all my life thought that one of the greatest outrages against humanity that can be perpetrated is to kill the soul or the civilization of any nation……
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Two significant events have occurred in the South Caucasus in recent weeks. Firstly, the West has thrown its weight behind Armenia’s breakaway from Russian hegemony. Secondly, the Russian peacekeepers, who took up positions in 2020, have begun withdrawing from the Azerbaijani territory of Karabakh. Let us first acknowledge that Nikol Pashinyan has good reasons for…
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The United States has taken nearly 6 months, and the deaths of around 35,000 people, to finally lift its veto for the first time against international attempts at the UN to stop the Zionist slaughter of the Palestinians in Gaza. In all that time it has provided the intelligence, missiles and moral/diplomatic cover to facilitate…
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Two years ago, on February 24, Russia launched its Special Military Operation in Ukraine. This was not the start of the war in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine, which was a civil war provoked by a US organised coup, had begun in 2014. The subsequent Russian intervention two years ago was prompted by the imminence…
