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Russia – US in Syria: Selling Afrin to Turkey but facing off ruthlessly for Ghouta

March 15, 2018 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

How many more dead and wounded human beings are needed to convince Russia and the US that they must come to terms about the future of Syria? At a time when the mainstream western media are extensively and exclusively reporting the woes of the desperate inhabitants of Ghouta, at another Syrian front in Afrin, the […]

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Is there a chance for the West to win the war on terror?

March 24, 2016 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

On the night of 13 November 2015 in Paris, after the ISIS operatives had hit almost simultaneously a concert hall, a major football stadium and some restaurants and bars leaving 130 dead and hundreds injured, the French President Francois Hollande said “we are at war”. Last Tuesday morning the same kind of ‘armed forces’ and […]

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Does the West reserve the fate of Libya and Syria for others? How does this relate to the EU’s Neighborhood Policy?

April 16, 2015 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

Last Monday the High Representative and Vice-president of the European Commission Federica Mogherini delivered the opening speech, in the ministerial meeting of EU’s Southern partners, in the context of the European Neighborhood Policy that took place in Barcelona. At some point she noticed that out of the 38 foreign ministers who were supposed to participate […]

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The EU Diplomacy in North Korea promotes peace or war?

April 8, 2013 by Leo Buonapartis 2 Comments

It was last Friday that the seven EU embassies located in Pyongyang received a formal warning by the North Korean regime to evacuate the premises and leave the country as soon as possible. As it was explicitly stated by the world’s most obscure totalitarian regime, the local authorities could not guarantee their safety after the […]