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The horrific attack on the concert hall “Crocus City Hall” on Friday 22^nd March 2024 has rightly disgusted most reasonable people, regardless of their nationality. Chilling scenes of terrorists ruthlessly murdering unarmed civilians in the corridors, and concert hall of one of Moscow’s largest shopping and entertainment centers have been seen around the world. With, at the time of writing, at least 139 dead and hundreds more wounded, over 150 in critical care, the horrendous toll is only likely to rise further…

After the successive failures of the French regime in the Sahel region, it is now Washington’s turn to feel the true feelings of contemporary Africa. And this, both at the level of the new patriotic and pan-African governments and at the level of the popular masses. The time of illusions, when some might have thought that Washington’s policies could be different from those of European colonial metropolises, is now a thing of the past…

After decades of waging war against impoverished nations with destitute armies, or no standing armies at all, the US has suddenly found itself in a rapidly changing world where peer and near-peer competitors are outpacing it in military capabilities. Many of these capabilities are showing up on the battlefield in places the US has until recently enjoyed relative military superiority. One area the US has found itself particularly weak in is artillery…