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NATO’s Ankara summit was supposed to showcase alliance strength. Instead, iPINIONS contends that it exposed how far European leaders will go to appease Trump, even as Ukraine proves that, despite his ignorant bravado, the US needs Europe as much as Europe needs the US. See my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/natos-ankara-summit-strengthen-the Read more.
Assad dynasty ends with a whimper The House of Assad has fallen. Its 54-year reign of terror ended in humiliation this weekend, with Bashar al-Assad fleeing as HTS rebels stormed Damascus. Assad’s father, Hafez, was infamous for genocidal repression, most notably in Hama, where a 1982 uprising ended with tens of thousands dead. Bashar inherited… Read more.
Trudeau accuses Modi of murder Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just shocked the world. He announced that Canada’s security services had “credible evidence” that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered this hit: ON THE EVENING of June 18th Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian Sikh leader whom India considered a terrorist, was sitting in his truck in a… Read more.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan won Turkey’s presidential election on Sunday. And he did so in a relative landslide with 52.2%. Kemal Kilicdaroglu was the unified opposition candidate. He led in all the polls. But he fell short with 47.8%. Erdogan wins Turkish election There was never any doubt about the outcome. Yes, polls and media reports… Read more.
President Biden’s first state visit to the Middle East is being defined by the superficial way he greeted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and by the political way they addressed the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. President Biden’s first state visit … is being defined by the superficial way he greeted Saudi Crown Prince… Read more.
Yesterday was Armenian Remembrance Day. It commemorates the killing of as many as 1.5 million people in Turkey, by Young Turks, from 1915-23, marking the first genocide of the twentieth century. 106 Years of Denial and Counting… Despite Turkey’s impassioned insistence that there was no genocide, instead labeling the Armenians as casualties of warfare and traitors… Read more.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) exposed his perfidy and Trump’s cupidity with the brutal assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The prevailing feature of President Trump’s foreign policy is the way he courts world leaders with whom he has, or is scheming to establish, personal financial ties. Nothing betrayed this quite like… Read more.
No doubt there was more media hype this time about a potential upset. But Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s reelection was as guaranteed on Sunday as Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s was on Sunday, March 18. Turkey’s long-standing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a new five-year term after securing outright victory in the first round… Read more.
