FP Anne Applebaum: Does Europe Even Matter?
Europe a victims of its own success: FP Anne Applebaum: Does Europe Even Matter?
Geopolitics
23/11/2015, Today – BBC Radio 4
General McChrystal, who led US special forces in Iraq speaks on BBC4 about the nature of the threat posed by ISIS and how we should respond – and how not to respond in the predictable […]
Isis: In a borderless world, the days when we could fight foreign wars and be safe at home may be long gone | Middle East | News | The Independent
It could be a good analysis from Robert Fisk, and it contains many interesting insights: irrelevance of borders both ME and European ones, etc. However, Fisk, a long-time resident of Beirut, has gone native: there […]
The French Way of War – POLITICO Magazine
The French military is highly conscious of its small size and lack of resources… Whenever possible, they try to limit the use of the military to missions for which militaries really can be of use. […]
How Has Russia Weaponized Information? | CEPA
In CEPA’s latest report, Edward Lucas and Ben Nimmo describe the Kremlin’s ongoing disinformation campaign to subvert both international onlookers and its domestic population. CEPA Infowar Paper No. 1 describes the mechanisms Russia has employed […]
Brahma Chellaney: The Western Roots of Anti-Western Terror
Brahma Chellaney repeats, in the “The Western Roots of Anti-Western Terror“, the theory that all evil and disorder in today’s world stems invariably and unavoidably from western interventionism. As if it was a given, the […]
Tolerance and its excesses
Irrationality has its price. Irrational rejection and hatred of foreigners on one hand, unconditional and irrational love of strangers on the other. Instead of sitting down and discussing who deserves and truly needs our protection, […]
Immigration in Europe: Map of the percentage and country of origin of immigrants – OneEurope
Number of immigrants in European countries Source: Immigration in Europe: Map of the percentage and country of origin of immigrants – OneEurope How are the numbers calculated? Spain has one of the highest percentages – […]
The Economist: Australia and Indonesia Drug executions strain relations
The Economist: Australia and Indonesia Chill factor Drug executions strain relations Is drug smuggling such an absolute necessity that people should try to defy it at the risk of their lives? And does their foolishness make it an […]
Europe’s Bad Conscience
In an editorial in Il Corriere Della Sera Europe’s bad conscience, Ernesto Galli della Loggia claims that Europeans are incapable of thinking about their own security mainly because they are incapable of thinking about war, […]
Il faut des psychiatres pour comprendre le monde Arabe
Le comportement des musulmans fait penser à un complexe d’infériorité collectif. Quelles que soient ses motivations, même s’il n’y en a pas du tout, c’est un phénomène très dangereux: l’Allemagne après la 1ère guerre mondiale […]
You may consider adapting to your new home country (and tolerating its inhabitants)
Extreme religious practices tend to attract comments, perhaps sometimes unpleasant – but so do all sorts of behaviours and attires to which society is not used at the moment. It must be hell to have […]