Category: War
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Russia’s push to a revanchalist future
Russia is going to set out its demands for a cessation to the hostilities in Ukraine in the coming week. The ideas, thoughts and arguments whether there is any workable argument that means Ukraine can accept an agreement is likely to be negated by the smattering of arguments coming from Washington. Whether Trump knows what…
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Christmas News Letter
Welcome to the final newsletter of 2024 from WorldThoughts.UK This year has been extraordinary, from a continuation of the war in Ukraine to the war in Gaza and finally the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria. The argument that has been at the forefront of most conversations has been who will be the next…
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NATO, Europe and the question of Ukraine
It is strange that when a country invades part of your territory, you are not allowed to attack the supply line that is enabling the attacking power to invade your territory in the first place. Ukraine is in this position, a position of weakness because it cannot attack Russia’s supply lines with the Western weapons…
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Sudan – the forgotten war
There is a scenario that between 500,000 and 1 million Sudanese will die of starvation or disease in Sudan. Food prices have increased by up to 83% because farmers have not been able to gather the harvest. The fighting has moved from the centre of Khartoum to the province of Gezira the breadbasket of Sudan and is proving…
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Revisionists and war
It is just about the only time that arguments are defined biblically, but the start of extended wars has encapsulated not just Netanyahu but also Putin. The war in Gaza is one of biblical proportions according to the hard line cabinet that Netanyahu has gathered as a government. In many ways Putin has argued that…
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Ukraine 2 years on
It is two years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the meat-grinder that is the war – is not slowing down. Advika, is the latest town to fall to Russia. But Ukraine with a shortage of ammunition held back by the US Congress’, due to their inability to differentiate right from wrong; Congress are now electioneering for the…
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The 7th October repercussions
The 7th October 2022, will be remembered in Israel for the absolute barbarity of a Hamas attack on the defenceless, women and children. It will also be remembered for the consequences of the attack and the bombardment of Gaza, where 5,000 have been killed and body parts strewn in rubble with the remnants of those…
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Another view.
The soviets argued that Israel was an apartheid state, but on the ground is there a difference between the Israeli state and its citizens – and is discrimination determined by ethnicity. The declaration that Israel is a Jewish state negates the rights of twenty percent of its population, and disenfranchises those that live, work or…
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The movement away from the forever wars.
There is nothing quite like the spite of Putin, the end of Karabakh’s Armenian population is down to Armenia moving closer to the West. But the reasoning behind Putin’s negation of the Armenian population is down to larger concerns for the Russian government. The war in Ukraine has stripped the Russian military from much of…
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Putin’s mis-step
In the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin believed that the troops would be welcomed, because he believed that “Ukraine’s pro-Russian citizens had been driven underground and persecuted for their convictions.” The idea of liberator was central to the thinking of the Russian state, but the Ukrainians distinguished themselves, not just…
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