The False Promise of Ukraine’s Deep Strikes Into Russia
WEB6 days ago · Russia has undertaken a strategic bombing campaign against Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure since the winter of 2022–23. In none of these cases have the results been promising. Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s energy system, if anything, have hardened the Ukrainian will to fight. In Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, too, strategic ...
A Cease-Fire Deal Now Would Be a Victory for Israel
WEB4 days ago · The American “final plan” that Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought to the Middle East last week accepted much of what Netanyahu had been holding out for. That deal would begin with a six-week cease-fire, an exchange of a significant number of Israeli hostages for an even greater number of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, and Israel ...
The Fall and Fall of Mahmoud Abbas | Foreign Affairs
WEB4 days ago · August 30, 2024. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas outside Moscow, August 2024. Alexey Maishev / Sputnik / Reuters. For nearly two decades, Palestinian leadership has been fractured. Along with a basic division between Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, numerous other groups have …
Haiti’s Window of Opportunity | Foreign Affairs
WEB5 days ago · The hope is that this UN Security Council–approved mission—formally referred to as the Multinational Security Support mission (MSS)—will allow Haiti to assert control over the country’s gangs, which have established de facto control over much of the capital’s neighborhoods and plunged the country into a dramatic humanitarian crisis.
The Power of Stigma - Foreign Affairs
WEB5 days ago · The new legislation requires Georgian media and nongovernmental organizations that receive more than 20 percent of their annual funding from abroad to register with the state as entities “pursuing the interest of a foreign power.”. The law has met with intense criticism, spurring tens of thousands of Georgians to take to the streets.
America Has More Latitude With Israel Than It Thinks
WEB6 days ago · In the past, the United States has applied more serious forms of pressure in the economic and military spheres. In 1991, President George H. W. Bush held up $10 billion in loan guarantees to Israel, forcing Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to change Israel’s settlement policy and participate in a major peace conference in Madrid with the …
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