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The Middle East awaits a large-scale war
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is terribly afraid of the cessation of armed hostilities in the Middle East. If this will happen, he will be forced to face investigate committees and questions regarding his own accountability and mistakes. He will not only have to answer many uncomfortable questions from the families of hostages, but also have to be severely punished for the death of many of them – though many could have been saved.
Discussing a pan-Eurasian security architecture and new agreements on cooperation: results of Sergey Lavrov’s trip to Southeast Asia
The second half of July was marked by an important visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Laos and Malaysia. Here Russia-ASEAN ministerial talks took place, as well as meetings of the foreign ministers of East Asian Summit members (EAS, the annual format of the ASEAN dialogue with external partners), the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF, a less formal platform for discussing the most pressing problems in the Asia-Pacific region) and a number of bilateral meetings.
Will the new US President change Washington’s Israel-Palestine Policy?
In popular parlance, the US President Joe Biden is already known as ‘Genocide Biden’ – a title that unmistakably highlights the role Biden has been playing, since October 2023, in facilitating Israel’s brutal war on Gaza. With Biden now all set to not contest in the upcoming presidential elections in the US in November this year, the question of whether the new president – Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump – bring any change to the US policy towards Israel?
