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Should Britain join an EU defence scheme?

Should Britain join an EU defence scheme?
25.01.2025 10

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Michael Evans

Rallying the troops / Trump professes peace, threatens fury

Rallying the troops / Trump professes peace, threatens fury
21.01.2025 10

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Michael Evans

Trump will find Putin harder to deal with than Hamas

Trump will find Putin harder to deal with than Hamas
17.01.2025 10

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Michael Evans

Bombing Syria in 2013 would not have toppled Assad

In hindsight, did the US, UK and France fail to seize the chance to topple President Bashar al-Assad in 2013? This is the question that convinced...

13.12.2024 3

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Michael Evans

Jolani has learnt from history

The victorious Syrian rebel leader now in control of Damascus has already learned a key lesson in history. After his forces swept into the capital,...

11.12.2024 4

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Michael Evans

Here’s what Putin wants from Ukraine

Donald Trump is still two months away from becoming the 47th president of the United States, and yet his return to the Oval Office in January has...

21.11.2024 1

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Michael Evans

The sad death of the Eurofighter Typhoon

Britain’s fighter jets are running missions into Syria, dropping bombs on the Houthis in Yemen, patrolling over Estonia, Lithuania and Romania,...

17.11.2024 2

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Michael Evans

Joe Biden wants Bibi to be careful

On 20 June 2019, President Donald Trump rescinded an order he had given for a military attack on Iran in retaliation for the shooting down of a...

22.10.2024 1

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Michael Evans

Iran, you have been warned

Bombs send messages. Yesterday it was announced that the United States sent B-2 Spirit stealth bombers to hit underground Houthi weapons stores....

18.10.2024 6

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Michael Evans

Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden are on a collision course

Benjamin Netanyahu is set on a path which brooks no deviation. He wants victory against Hamas, victory against Hezbollah and, ultimately, victory...

09.10.2024 2

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Michael Evans

Failure / What is Biden’s Middle East legacy?

No one can accuse President Joe Biden of failing to do his utmost to prevent a full-scale war from breaking out in the Middle East. He and his...

27.09.2024 2

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Michael Evans

Ukraine / What is Zelensky’s ‘victory plan’?

President Zelensky is in the United States for his latest, possibly last, throw of the dice before the American election, in his attempt to prove...

24.09.2024 3

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Michael Evans

Biden inches towards authorising Storm Shadows in Russia

Storm Shadow, Britain’s highly-prized, air-launched cruise missile, is not going to win the war for Kyiv against the Russian invaders. However,...

14.09.2024 7

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Michael Evans

Will Israel and Hamas sign a peace deal?

The omens for a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Israel and Hamas are looking alarmingly bleak following the latest shuttle diplomacy by Antony...

22.08.2024 2

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Michael Evans

American diplomacy might not stop a Middle East war

On the face of it, the assassination of Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh in Tehran on 31 July was a brilliant, opportunistic strike by one of the...

10.08.2024 20

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