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On this platform, the 2011 war in Syria was characterized as a proxy war before it became obvious that it was so. Here, too, the war in Ukraine was characterized as a war between nuclear powers who cannot have direct military confrontation because of the danger of nuclear weapons that can be deployed. Now, with Read more
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by Ahmed E. Souaiaia The Ukrainian war, from day one, has exposed the latent and not-so-latent racism, bigotry, discrimination, and double standard. From the media coverage to the treatment of persons displaced by the war, the West has shown that, in the eyes of Westerners, white, European, blue-eyed people are entitled and deserving of exceptional Read more
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For seven full years, the Yemeni forces opposed to Saudi Arabia and their Yemeni allies did not stop resisting. In fact, they progressively and methodically built the means (military) and the narrative (ethical and political) for cause. During the first half of the Saudi war on Yemen, the Sanaa government was limited in its ability Read more
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When direct military intervention is not a feasible option, US administrations and Western allies always used economic and financial tools to achieve their foreign policy goals. Imposing sanctions has become a reflexive, automatic reaction against any government that resists the current world order—the one dominated by Western liberalism. Such Western addiction to sanctions and embargoes Read more
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by Ahmed E. Souaiaia Hybrid wars, or asymmetrical wars, did not start with the war in Syria. After all, the fall of the Soviet Union, some of whose effects are unfolding before us today, was due, in part, to the war in Afghanistan. Two nuclear powers in an intense competition to control the world, cannot Read more
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by Hussein Ibrahim On social media, and some on mainstream media, many have raised the possibility of Islamist fighters arriving in Ukraine to fight against Russian forces, whether from Europe or the Middle East, especially after the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced the formation of a corps of foreign fighters, recalling memories of the “Afghan Read more
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Tunisian President Kais Saied has become, in the eyes of many, superior because of the opposition’s weakness, its lack of maturity and its many missteps, which, according to observers, have become superior, according to observers, to the president’s own missteps, which makes a large number of Tunisians uninterested in the current confrontation between the two Read more
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Since breaking free from the French colonial rule, Algeria has had very uneasy relationship with Morocco, reaching the point of direct armed conflict at one point (Sep 25, 1963-4). Then, Morocco, eager to capitalize on a moment of weakness in Algeria whose army consisted of Mujahideen fighters trained to fight asymmetrical war against the French Read more
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In 2016, the Justice and Development Party (French acronym PJD) in Morocco won 125 seats of the 395-seat house of representatives in the parliament of Morocco, earning it the top spot and forcing the King to appoint the party’s leader to form a government. Fast forward to September 8, 2021, and the same party, under Read more
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