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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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The World has entered a period of great flux. Thirty years ago it was in such a period after the collapse of the Soviet Union. That event came about with great suddenness, despite signs being there that something was going to happen of a fundamental nature. Likewise, today. In the late 1980s Soviet leaders and…
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“The war I know about is not the war you’re reading about,” Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on Ukraine. “It is evident that the conflict, initially a limited territorial war, has evolved into a global economic confrontation between the whole West on one side, and Russia, backed by China, on the other. It has become…
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There are some important things emerging from the protests along the Lachin road in Azerbaijan which Armenians have called a “blockade”. The campaign against the Azerbaijani environmental protests has undoubtedly provided a degree of momentum for those in Yerevan, and in the Armenian diaspora in France and the US, who wish to break free of…
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The following article is being published in 3 parts by Azerbaijan in Focus in shortened form. The updated and extended version below will hopefully appear as a Postscript to the forthcoming book, 44 Days; Karabakh from Occupation to Liberation, which I hope will be available soon: Two years after the Second Karabakh War how is…
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The news from Ukraine comes from the UK’s State Broadcasting agency, the BBC. The BBC constructs its news via journalists relaying the propaganda produced in Kiev and analysis from a network of British state security think tanks. Tom Stevenson, in reviewing a recent book written by one of the chief Ukraine analysts for the BBC,…
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Kiev has launched by far its most successful counter-attack since the Russian Special Military Operation began on 24 February this year. The Ukrainians gained large swathes of territory in the North East around Kharkov that Russian forces were occupying and administering, as opposed to simply performing military operations on. Does this constitute a turning of…
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Below is the slightly edited transcript of a discussion I had with Orkhan Amashov of Azernews early in August 2022 on a wide range of issues including Ukraine, Eurasian geopolitics, Azerbaijan, Russian peace keepers, the Karabakh settlement and peace process and the fall of Boris Johnson in the UK. Here is a link to the…
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Exactly a year ago, when Charles Michel from the European Union was heavily courting Armenia the present writer noted in an article entitled EU Expansionism in the South Caucasus: “It seems that the EU, blocked in Ukraine after it provoked the disintegration of the Ukrainian state (in 2014), is now hell bent on expanding into…
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On 6 July President Putin made a significant speech in the Kremlin’s St Catherine Hall. Putin was meeting with the leaders of the State Duma and the heads of party factions of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. Here are the important sections of the Russian President’s speech: “The so-called collective West led by the United States has been extremely aggressive towards Russia for decades. Our proposals to create a system of equal…
