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Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, surprised some by visiting China. Mick Ryan in
analyses the negotiation of war and peace.
Some links to sources which we found especially interesting are listed in ‘... and in the Left corner ...’, ‘Wayfarers’ Watch’, ‘Greensleeves’ and under a new heading ‘Klaus Wits’ (for war nerds).
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+... and in the Left corner ...+
☼☼(For everyone, but of special interest to Social Democrats, Bolshevik imperialists, and other lefties)
Cohen has advice for lefties :—
☼¶ ☼Nick Cohen
Why helping poor kids is unpopular How to rebuild support for the welfare state
If you’re so anti-fascist, why aren’t you more right wing? Stopping Trump means endless compromises
Ash asks if PRC is moving towards a plateau in the world-power-status game :—-
☼¶ ☼Timothy Ash
If you’re not absolutely committed to open borders for your country, you might learn from —
☼¶ ☼What the West Can Learn from Japan About Immigration By David Josef Volodzko
Disinformation watch —
☼¶ The BBC Disinformation Watch
US ELECTIONS Disinformation spreads as Biden exits White House race | President Biden’s withdrawal and Kamala Harris’s emergence as the new frontrunner for the Democratic nomination has been met with a wave of largely recycled false claims on social media against the vice-president.
Three items (from ASPI, Foreign Affairs and Haaretz) on the strife in the Holy Land (by Jewish authors, we think) :—
☼¶ ASPI
Israel is enabling Iran’s war of attrition
Shlomo Ben-Ami | 18 July 2024 in The Strategist — The Australian Strategic Policy Institute | In 2017, Iran unveiled a digital clock counting down the days to the destruction of Israel in 2040. The display, located in Tehran’s Palestine Square, embodies the Islamic Republic’s long-held commitment to annihilating the Jewish ...
☼¶ _Foreign Affairs_
Israel’s Next War The Mounting Pressure to Fight Hezbollah in Lebanon—and Why That Is So Dangerous
By Amos Harel
☼¶ _Haaretz_
Musk and megachurch, rapture and reprise: Netanyahu’s dark speech to Congress The 52 standing ovations punctuating Netanyahu's speech to Congress covered an essential nakedness: Omissions just as glaring as the absence of the more than 80 members who chose to skip it. | Esther Solomon
+Wayfarers’ Watch+
☼☼(For everyone, but especially for people interested in religion and theology)
☼¶ ☼Regina Doman
The Elements of a Woman's Dress, Part 1 Some reflections on why these elements endure and why they are still needed.
The Gate of Heaven and the Door to the Eucharist Melissa Musick on cannibalism.
+Greensleeves+
☼☼(Green News, and other material which doesn’t fit elsewhere)
☼¶ ☼Persuasion (Yascha Mounk & al.)
Luxury Beliefs are Real We just need a better definition. Here’s mine.
☼¶ _People & Nature_
+Klaus Wits+
☼☼(About war)
A problem for the Ukrainian (and other) militaries —
☼¶ ☼Sarcastosaurus (Tom Cooper)
☼The Saga of Ukraine and F-16s: Quick Reaction Alert (a.k.a. 'Part 4')
Zaluzhnyi speaks at RUSI :—
¶ ☼ ψ Ukrainska Pravda
The Russo-Ukrainian war as a war of transition
Valerii Zaluzhnyi
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+Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union+
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75-year-old among three Ukrainians abducted and tortured by Russian FSB on fake ‘terrorism’ charges 22.07.2024
Russia destroys monuments to Victims of Holodomor and Stalin’s Terror in occupied Luhansk
Russia demolishes last Ukrainian Orthodox church in occupied Crimea 23.07.2024
Death by Russian imprisonment for monitoring repression in occupied Crimea 24.07.2024
‘The Russians deliberately took Ukrainian children out in groups’
Tortured and killed — civilians of the village of Moshchun 25.07.2024
Ukrainian DJ tortured and held hostage since early 2022 ‘for opposing Russia’s operation against Ukraine’ 26.07.2024
Brutal Russian reprisals against prominent lawyer defending Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners 26.07.2024
+Toots etcetera+
ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki@mastodon.social
1/ Russians who volunteered to fight in the Donetsk and Luhansk 'People's Republics' have not only been mistakenly listed as deserters, but are being victimised by scammers in their attempts to get off the list. The story of one man who volunteered aged 18 illustrates this. …
1/ Former Wagner mercenaries, their families, and ex-members of other Russian mercenary and volunteer units are reportedly being left "on the brink of poverty" without employment, assistance or prosthetics, despite Russia creating a fund to help ex-soldiers.
1/ Despite searing temperatures of up to 40°C (104°F), Russian fighter pilots in Ukraine and southern Russia are reportedly being issued with only 1 litre (36 oz) of water to drink per day. In between sorties, they are said to be driving around nearby villages begging for water.
1/ The aviation component of Russia's nuclear triad is said to be at serious risk of failure due to possible corruption at Russia's United Engine Corporation. This has come to light after the crash of a Tu-160M strategic bomber on which Vladimir Putin flew in February 2024.
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+The Living Spirit+
Raising Those Who Have Fallen
Joseph H. Hertz
A traveler was crossing mountain heights of untrodden snow alone. He struggled bravely against the sense of sleep which weighed down his eyelids, and he knew that if he fell asleep death would inevitably follow. At this crisis his foot struck against a heap lying across his path. Stooping down, he found it to be a human body half buried in the snow. The next moment he held him in his arms, and was rubbing and chafing the frozen man’s limbs. The effort to restore another unto life brought back to himself warmth and energy.
It was, in fact, the means of saving both.
~ Plough
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+Publication Details+
_Just Peace Ukraine_ is published by the Rvrd Martin Arnold
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+Church, Art, Culture, Ethics, Politics & News+
+From religiously-identified institutions+
☼¶ ☼From bishops of Queensland: enews from the Archdiocese of Brisbane, Catholic Leader &c.
Romero Centre, a resource hub in Dutton Park for asylum seekers looking for assistance with a range of challenges, has found a new home with the Archdiocese of Brisbane. Read now.
Crisis Sectarianism in Australia may be a thing of the past but rifts over religion today show the need to work for peace is ever-present, says author Jeff Kildea
☼¶ ☼CathNews New Zealand, CathNews Australia
J.D. Vance’s Catholicism | Massimo Faggioli
☼¶ ☼Church Life Journal, a Journal of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame
Drive Ethically: On The Morality of Speeding
Terence Sweeney on cars.
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Forms of Devotion: The Religion of St. Louis of France
Jacques Le Goff on devotion.
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The Technological Enframing of Medicine
Kyle Karches on healthcare.
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Rediscovering the Historical Roots of Synodality and Co-Responsibility
Louis Cameli on the laity.
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The Catholic Modernist Crisis in a Nutshell
Elizabeth Huddleston on a novel approach to Pascendi.
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The Gate of Heaven and the Door to the Eucharist
Melissa Musick on cannibalism.
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The Experience Machine Thought Experiment Expanded
Joseph Vukov on simulating experiences.
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Saving the Soul of Catholic Education: A New Survey
Jason King on taking the long view.
☼¶ ☼Jewish Council of Australia
Albanese Government must meaningfully respond to International Court of Justice advisory opinion on illegal occupation of Palestinian territories — Dr Elizabeth Strakosch
☼¶ ☼The John Templeton Foundation
By Andrew McLuhan
☼¶ ☼Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University — Public Orthodoxy
Facets of Sobornost: Love and Power
by Dmitry Biriukov
Mary Magdalene: Resurrection Egg and Anointing Jar
by VK McCarty
☼¶ ☼Outreach (a lesbigatesque Catholic resource from New York)
Where is your splanchnon? Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Jer. 23:1-6; Eph. 2:13-18; Mk. 6:30-34)
Do you long for the Eucharist? Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(2 Kgs. 4:42-44; Eph. 4:1-6; Jn. 6:1-15)
James Martin, S.J.
☼¶ ☼Society of Jesus: Thinking Faith (England & Wales), America (USA) Eureka Street (Victoria) &c.
Five faith facts about Kamala Harris | Yonat Shimron - Religion News Service
+From Ukrainian publishers+
☼¶ ☼ ψ The Kyiv Independent group, including Ukraine Daily, Belarus Weekly
Opinion: Could Ukraine survive a JD Vance vice presidency?
Timothy Ash
Eye of the storm: A day in the life of Ukrainian infantry on the zero line near Toretsk
Francis Farrell
Life in Kyiv during severe blackouts
Brooke Manning
War Notes by Francis Farrell
☼¶ ☼ ψ Ukrainska Pravda
The Russo-Ukrainian war as a war of transition
Valerii Zaluzhnyi
☼☼ Some interesting or worthy items are marked with some combination of the banner with the strange device [εξηλσιορ*ψ]
+Tl;dr — From many sources+
☼¶ _The Atlantic_
The Final Six Months of U.S. Aid for Ukraine If Trump wins, Kyiv’s cause is in danger. Biden must prepare for that possibility.
By Phillips Payson O’Brien
Suddenly Trump Looks Older and More Deranged Now the Republicans are the ones saddled with a candidate who can’t make a clear argument or finish a sentence.
By Anne Applebaum
☼¶ The Atlantic Council
Russia’s retreat from Crimea makes a mockery of the West’s escalation fears By Peter Dickinson
Ukraine and NATO are restoring Europe’s security architecture By Andriy Yermak
Putin is convinced he can outlast the West and win in Ukraine By Mykola Bielieskov
☼¶ Axel Springer SE (_Politico, Bild, Die Welt, Fact_)
Opinion | The Strange Future After a Second Trump Term The dollar will decline, Europe will rise, and Asia will nuclearize. Daniel W. Drezner
☼¶ The BBC, ABC, CBC, NZBC &c.
US ELECTIONS Disinformation spreads as Biden exits White House race | President Biden’s withdrawal and Kamala Harris’s emergence as the new frontrunner for the Democratic nomination has been met with a wave of largely recycled false claims on social media against the vice-president.
☼¶ Bellingcat
Russian Missile Identified in Kyiv Children’s Hospital Attack
☼¶ Carnegie (_politica, Russia Eurasia_)
Putin’s Russia Will Continue to Pursue Nuclear Escalation Many in Moscow believe that the system of arms control created during the Cold War was advantageous to the West—and they want that to change.
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 | Maxim Starchak
Between the EU and Moscow: How Russia Exploits Divisions in Bosnia
Dimitar Bechev
Russia’s War in Ukraine Is Aggravating the Caspian Sea Environmental Crisis Russia’s use of the Caspian Sea for military purposes and its reduction of water flow from the Volga are damaging the sea’s already fragile ecosystem.
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 | Zaur Shiriyev
Another major consequence of the war in Ukraine has been how Russian metals firms are increasingly integrating with their Chinese counterparts. This is just one obvious sign of growing Chinese influence over Russian industry, which extends from consumer electronics and appliances to metals and hydrocarbons.
In her piece for Carnegie Politika, Vita Spivak, one of our top China experts, analyzes how Russian metals producers embrace of China is part of deepening economic interdependence. Read Here
In recent years—and particularly since the start of the fighting in Ukraine—dialogue between Moscow and Washington on the topic of nuclear arms control has all but ground to a halt. At the same time, nuclear blackmail has spiraled.
As Maxim Starchak explains in his article on the subject, Russia’s Defense Ministry now sees nuclear weapons as the sole obstacle to war with NATO, while Russia’s Foreign Ministry uses nuclear saber rattling as just another diplomatic tool. For many in Moscow today, even agreeing to nuclear arms control negotiations would be seen as a defeat.
Kremlin Looks to Moscow in Switch to Universal Electronic Voting | Friday, July 26, 2024 | Andrey Pertsev | By using electronic voting to rig elections on an unprecedented scale, Kremlin officials risk creating a “virtual” political system that could be deeply unstable in times of turbulence.
☼¶☼Defence One
A long-sought European defense ‘awakening’ has arrived, EUCOM commander says “This is a different Europe from what we complained about for years,” Gen. Cavoli says.
Patrick Tucker
☼¶ _Engelsberg Ideas_
Vladislav Zubok on how, from the 1970s onwards, the Soviet Union and Russia were debilitated by a series of old and inept political leaders.
Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powells' visions of modernity differed in crucial respects, writes Gerald Warner, but taken together their work offers a vivid chronicle of Britain's secularising society caught between the ways of the new and the old.
Michael Sheridan considers how states can negotiate successfully with China.
Although P.G. Wodehouse's books were comical, writes William Fear, they were far from frivolous and display a deep appreciation of serious philosophical questions around human agency, fate and the existence of free will.
☼¶ _Foreign Affairs_
Israel’s Next War The Mounting Pressure to Fight Hezbollah in Lebanon—and Why That Is So Dangerous
By Amos Harel
The Right Way to Quickly End the War in Ukraine Instead of Abandoning Kyiv, Washington Should Give It the Tools to Win
By Jakub Grygiel, Professor of Politics at Catholic University of America, a Senior Adviser at the Marathon Initiative, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was a senior adviser in the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State from 2017 to 2018.
☼¶ _Haaretz_
Musk and megachurch, rapture and reprise: Netanyahu’s dark speech to Congress The 52 standing ovations punctuating Netanyahu's speech to Congress covered an essential nakedness: Omissions just as glaring as the absence of the more than 80 members who chose to skip it. | Esther Solomon
☼¶ ☼Geopolitical Monitor
Russia Isn’t Behind Armenia’s Military Defeats, Geopolitical Choices Are
Opinion - July 19, 2024 - By Taras Kuzio
☼¶ _The Guardian_
Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times Historians aren’t supposed to make predictions, but Yale professor Timothy Snyder has become known for his dire warnings – and many of them have been proved correct
By Robert P Baird
Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum review – the devil you know A masterful guide to the new age of authoritarianism
By John Simpson
Kamala Harris is Obama's natural heir: another moderate child of radical parents Will the daughter of outspoken postcolonial progressives adopt their egalitarian vision?
Thomas Meaney and Samuel Moyn
Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain
Carole Cadwalladr
‘I know we will win – and how’: Ukraine’s top general on turning the tables against Russia
Luke Harding, photos by Alessio Mamo
☼¶ Institute for the Study of War
¶ Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
2024 g 15 Ukraine continues to demonstrate its willingness to negotiate with Russia on Ukraine’s own terms, and Ukraine’s demands for a peace settlement are in accordance with international law — in direct contrast to Russia’s unwillingness to engage in negotiations that end in anything short of full Ukrainian surrender.
g 17 Russian state news outlets editorialized comments by Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev and claimed that he said that the Ukrainian state will no longer exist by 2034, likely to support the Kremlin's efforts to prepare the Russian public for a long war in Ukraine while promising that Russia will complete its objective to destroy Ukrainian statehood within a decade.
☼¶ _The Interpreter_ (Lowy Institute)
Moving beyond the grey zone: The case for ICAD Adam Lockyer, Yves-Heng Lim, Courtney J Fung 17/7/24 Why some Indo-Pacific nations are renaming the place between peace and war.
The deadly consequences of misclassifying foreign fighters in Ukraine Russia calls them mercenaries to deny international legal protections. Accountability is essential.
Shannon Bosch 21/7/24
☼¶ _Moscow Times_
'Do You Still Need This War?’: The Anti-War Russian Teenagers Facing Long Prison Sentences A number of teenagers in Russia have been sentenced for their opposition to the invasion of Ukraine. We have collected some of their stories.
2024 g 27 | This week saw more arrests of senior defense ministry officials on various corruption charges. It would appear the military purge that began earlier in the spring with the arrest of former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov has not yet reached its end. On Wednesday, the head of the defense ministry’s construction company was arrested and charged with abuse of power. And on Friday, former Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov was arrested on charges of embezzlement. | A Russian national was arrested over a suspected plot to “destabilize” the Paris Olympics. | Moscow added 54 groups representing Russia’s Indigenous peoples, as well as the U.S.-based Free Russia Foundation, to its list of “extremist” organizations. | Fifteen Russian athletes will compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. However, a Netherlands-based watchdog has accused many of them of showing support for the invasion of Ukraine. | The Central Bank raised its key interest rate from 16% to 18% amid struggles to fight inflation. | Spending on Russian cemetery expansion projects in the two years since the invasion of Ukraine is triple the spending in the two preceding years, The Moscow Times found. | Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army. | Earlier this month, we were declared an “undesirable organization,” meaning that any Russian who works for us, speaks to us or even shares our work is at risk of criminal prosecution.
☼¶ NASA
Canals in Ukraine are Drying Up After the breach of Kakhovka Dam and the flood that ensued, farmers in the area are coping with depleted water supplies.
☼¶ _New Statesman_
Is there a peace plan for Ukraine? Donald Trump has said he would end the war if he wins the White House. But at what cost?
By Lawrence Freedman
☼¶ OVD-Info and the _Dissident Digest_
24 g 17 First of all I want to urge all of you to help The Moscow Times which the Kremlin declared undesirable several hours ago. The Times has been a beacon in English-language independent reporting on Russia for decades and the designation is clearly designed to make their job harder. «Undesirability» means that it will be harder for them to fundraise and operate in Russia. If you can, please support The Moscow Times financially or by following their socials. You can read more about the designation in the Times’ article here.
A woman in Makhachkala was convicted to a suspended sentence of over two years last week. Why? Believing in a conspiracy theory. We know little about this case — but I want to use this opportunity to tell you the fascinating story of the Citizens of the USSR movement. The Citizens of the USSR, or as some call them “necrocommunists”, are followers of a conspiracy theory — yet in the repressive environment created by the Kremlin even they are forced into a dissident role.
☼¶ _People & Nature_
☼¶ _Project Syndicate_, George Soros &c.
Biden Rejects the Drug of Power Jul 23, 2024 Nina L. Khrushcheva
Joe Biden's decision to drop out of the presidential race reflects a humility that is far more likely to be found among democratic leaders than authoritarians. But as Donald Trump has shown – with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his vow to be a dictator “on day one” – such humility is never guaranteed.
☼¶ Riddle Russia
Olga Irisova explains how the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall affected the agenda of Russian media and social networks
"Terrorist attacks provide autocrats with a favorable environment in which to mobilize public support and/or implement unpopular policies."
Nurlan Aliyev evaluates the impact of Russia’s Ukraine invasion on its economic development plans for the High North
"Russia’s Ukraine invasion has backfired on its own economy, and there has been a clear and lasting impact on the viability of its Arctic projects."
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (July 15−19)
The limits of capacity of Russia military production - Russia Talk 43 (Pavel Luzin)
☼¶ RUSI
In light of the recent global IT outage caused by the Crowdstrike incident, Pia Hüsch, Research fellow in cyber, technology and national security at RUSI emphasies the need for a holistic approach when considering the impact.
☼¶ The Strategist — The Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Australia’s inaction as Chinese companies enable Russia’s aggression There’s no end in sight to the nightmare of Russia’s assault on Ukraine. Scores were left dead and injured across Ukraine last week when Russian missiles struck Kyiv and other cities. One even tore through ...(Read more...)
Benjamin Herscovitch | 18 July 2024
To give China extra reason to wind back its support for Russia, Australia could also quietly encourage regional allies and partners like New Zealand, South Korea and Singapore to take similar measures. Beijing might not be swayed even if Canberra could build a coalition of regional capitals willing to act against the Chinese companies supplying Russia’s war machine. And yet such an approach still stands a better chance of changing China’s calculus than the verbal objections that the Albanese government has offered to date.
Rediscovering Australia’s Asian destiny
John McCarthy | 25 July 2024
Australia differs from most other countries whose governance is based on Western precepts, because the nations that are most central to our external focus have historical, ethnic and religious backgrounds different to our own. Their ...
Taiwan may yet become a porcupine
Jane Rickards | 25 July 2024
It’s early days, but the signs are strong that Taiwan’s new government will insist on much more of a porcupine strategy for national defence than many officers in the country’s hidebound armed forces have been willing …
Not just Beijing’s doing: market factors are also hitting rare earths prices
David Uren | 25 July 2024
Have depressed rare earths prices been engineered by the Chinese state to snuff out non-Chinese rivals before they get going? Or do they simply reflect a weak market, with demand rising more slowly than was ...
Living off the land: the silent cyber threat to critical infrastructure
Chris Grove | 24 July 2024
Cyber defences can be alert to malware. It’s much harder to be alert to intruders who use the targeted system’s own resources against the owner. In cybersecurity, such attack methods are called ‘living off the ...
India is deluding itself: there’s no multipolar world
Rahul Jaybhay | 24 July 2024
Despite India’s ardent wish, the world is nowhere close to becoming a multipolar system with India as one of the poles, or centres of power. Instead, today’s global system is best described as partially unipolar ...
Whole-of-nation readiness demands whole-of-nation exercises
Eric Lies and Jeremy Stredwick | 24 July 2024
Australia must develop robust, interdepartmental and whole–of–nation exercises based on potential conflict scenarios or it risks discovering when lives are at stake that it’s ill–prepared. The Covid-19 pandemic and increasingly destructive natural disasters have demonstrated ...
South Korea’s technological prowess could greatly strengthen AUKUS
Jihoon Yu | 23 July 2024
The members of AUKUS should expand the security pact to include South Korea. If they do, they will deepen and strengthen the partnership, enhance its technological capabilities and make the Indo-Pacific region more secure. South ...
Democrat challenge: taking credit for some, but not all, Biden policies
Richard Haass | 23 July 2024
US President Joe Biden’s decision to step aside as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate this fall has transformed American politics. It caps a historic July in the United States, one defined by far-reaching Supreme Court ...
Australia needs a plan for a Chinese navy presence in the Indian Ocean
Marcus Schultz | 23 July 2024
Australia’s defence planners should carefully weigh the risks posed to its vital maritime trade connections by a persistent Chinese naval presence in the Indian Ocean. Some precautions must be taken now, as the need to ...
Cyber security means sticking with trusted, not any, providers
Justin Bassi and James King | 23 July 2024
The Crowdstrike software outage disrupted airlines, banks, supermarkets and other major services—causing significant inconvenience for millions of people worldwide. It has prompted many to marvel that so many global operations and organisations rely on so ...
CrowdStrike glitch sounds a cybersecurity alarm we cannot ignore
Andrew Horton | 22 July 2024
As Russia’s Caucasus influence falls, filling the gap isn’t simple
Adam Ziogas | 22 July 2024
Armenia’s intention to withdraw from a Russia-led security alliance of ex-Soviet states appears on the surface to offer an opportunity for the European Union, Turkey and Iran to expand their influence and pursue their own ...
Pasifika-led development through sport in the Pacific
Tahina Booth and Henry Campbell | 22 July 2024
Australia should work more closely with Pacific Islanders and Australia’s Pasifika diaspora to refresh our development assistance in the region, help build stronger and better-connected communities, protect victims of gender-based violence, and create real change ...
Four lessons for four more years of Trump
Jennifer Jackett and Justin Bassi | 22 July 2024
Lacking: Japanese security cooperation with Taiwan
Jane Rickards | 19 July 2024
‘Only thunder, no rain’ is the Chinese saying. Plenty of serious-sounding noise has come from Japan in the past few years about the need to back Taiwan against conquest by China, but it isn’t turning ...
Third plenum exits show trust still an issue for Xi
Daria Impiombato and Nathan Attrill | 19 July 2024
The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party has accepted the resignation of one of its own most highly ranked members, former foreign minister Qin Gang, highlighting Xi Jinping’s continuing lack of trust in some ...
Israel is enabling Iran’s war of attrition
Shlomo Ben-Ami | 18 July 2024
In 2017, Iran unveiled a digital clock counting down the days to the destruction of Israel in 2040. The display, located in Tehran’s Palestine Square, embodies the Islamic Republic’s long-held commitment to annihilating the Jewish ...
☼¶ _Telegraph_ (London)
Putin is leading Russia into a demographic catastrophe ‘Moscow can always find more men’, one hears people say, justifying Western inaction. It is simply not true — Francis Dearnley
☼¶ War on the Rocks
The U.S. Department of Deterrence
Erik Gartzke and Jon Lindsay
☼¶ _Wavell Room_
Genesis and Exodus: Lessons From the US Army’s Recruiting Failure
by Captain Plume
Good-bye & bless you!
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