"The lords of the algorithm dictate"
Die Schweiz ist bereit, eine Plattform fr ein Treffen zwischen Trump und Putin ber die Ukraine zu bieten, Medien
En dansk frsljning av Grnland till USA verkar hgst osker. Men det skulle inte vara frsta gngen Danmark har slt
En dansk frsljning av Grnland till USA verkar hgst osker. Men det skulle inte vara frsta gngen Danmark har slt ar till USA frr. Fr bara 25 miljoner
"The lords of the algorithm dictate"
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U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith, who led the federal cases against Donald Trump on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat and mishandling of classified documents, has resigned, as the Republican president-elect prepared to return to the White House.
and would like you to remember that military contractors massacring civilians in broad daylight was "good for America".
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The Musk threat to European democracy
> European democracies are confronting a new online influence and threat not from autocracies such as Russia, but emanating from the US. , the X owner and ally, is using his network to denigrate leaders he dislikes and promote far-right views and politicians. s CEO is meanwhile shifting to a Musk-style approach that prioritises free speech over independent fact-checking
Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned after submitting his Trump report, Justice Department says
The resignation, 10 days before Trump is inaugurated, follows the conclusion of two unsuccessful criminal prosecutions that were withdrawn following his White House win.
Donald Trumps careless talk
> Even before his return to the White House, has demonstrated just how disruptive his second term threatens to be. In a Mar-a-Lago press conference this week, the president-elect declined to rule out the use of force to take US control of and the Canal. He suggested economic force might persuade to become the 51st state of the .
Trump, Greenland and the rebirth of the Monroe Doctrine
> The New York Post summarised it best. The tabloids Wednesday front page showed pointing at a map of the western hemisphere with as the 51st state, the Gulf of Mexico renamed Gulf of America, the Canal reborn as Pana-Maga .. in refusing to rule out military action to grab whatever nearby real estate takes his fancy, Trump is giving strange rebirth to the doctrine.
Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned after submitting his Trump report, Justice Department says
The resignation, 10 days before Trump is inaugurated, follows the conclusion of two unsuccessful criminal prosecutions that were withdrawn following his White House win.
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> Mikkel Runge Olesen, senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, said: For the US, the problem is Chinese and Russian interest in the Arctic. The US has started to see the Arctic as a region for geopolitical competition. Its very important for the US to keep the other great powers out of .
Putins main goal is to make sure Ukraine never joins NATO
Putins main goal is to make sure Ukraine never joins NATO .
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Whys The Russian-Taliban Bounty Scandal From Summer 2020 Suddenly Back In The News
Whys The Russian-Taliban Bounty Scandal From Summer 2020 Suddenly Back In The News
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The Insider, which is designated as a foreign agent in Russia, wants to complicate Trumps peace talks with Russia, improve US ties with Pakistan at the expense of ties with India, and pry Tajikistan away from the CSTO.
The Insider brought summer 2020s Russian-Taliban bounty scandal after publishing their last week. Theyre designated as a by Russia, and two of their articles three co-authors and are wanted by the Interior Ministry. Grozev also used to lead Bellingcats Russia investigations, who are also designated as foreign agents and which Russias foreign spy chief with Western intelligence.
The aforesaid details are being shared so that readers know better than to take their words at face value. The Insiders report is full of bombshells about the Russian-Taliban bounty scandal, and regardless of whether or not one believes what they wrote, theyre bound to have a narrative impact. Thats because they claim that Russia did indeed pay the Taliban for each American that they killed, theres allegedly a connection to regional actors too, and all of this is coming out right before Trumps reinauguration.
In the order that they were mentioned, The Insider purports to have mapped GRUs Afghan assassination network, which they present as lending credence to these accusations. Readers can review their report to learn more about what they supposedly discovered, but it boils down to spies using diplomatic and business cover to pass along orders and payments to the Taliban. The impression is that Russia is guilty as charged, which could justify the Biden Administration designating it as a state sponsor of terrorism.
As for the regional actors that are allegedly involved, the primary one is Iran, which The Insider claims arranged the first Russian-Taliban contacts. They also reported that Russia funnelled arms to the Taliban from its base in Tajikistan and is plotting to help them against Dushanbe. Theres also a vague connection between GRUs assassins and India. The first claim could lead to more US pressure on Iran, the second could sow discord between these allies, while the third could derail the .
And finally, the timing of all this is clearly meant to complicate Trumps efforts to negotiate an end to the with Russia. Even if the Biden Administration doesnt designate it as a state sponsor of terrorism in order to maximally impede his diplomacy, the media attention that might be given to The Insiders report could lead to more manufactured pressure on him to reconsider his . There could also be important implications for Trumps foreign policy towards the broader region.
Prior to this development, Trump was largely indifferent towards the Taliban, his envoy for special missions Richard Grenell seemed ready to leverage to secure Imran Khans release as part of a grand deal, while a US-Indo rapprochement seemed inevitable. All of that might change if his administration believes the previously mentioned allegations and thus decides to improve US-Pakistani ties at the Talibans and Indias expense in the ways thatll now be described.
Pakistan and the Taliban are once again on the brink of war after their stemming from Islamabads accusations that the group hosts terrorist-designated TTP militants and Kabuls refusal to recognize the Durand Line between their nations. If Trump is manipulated into wanting revenge for the alleged bounty plot, then he might drop Khans cause and ignore in order to use that country as a proxy against the Taliban.
Nearby Tajikistan despises the neighbouring Taliban for ideological reasons (its strictly secular while theyre Islamic fundamentalists) and due to its persecution of ethnic Tajiks in the north, whose numbers are larger than those in Tajikistan proper, which places them on the same side as Pakistan in Afghanistan. Tajik-Pakistani ties have also strengthened in recent years, especially the past one after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in July and then right before the New Year.
Tajikistan might more therefore actively diversify from its military-strategic dependence on Russia in light of the latest reports that GRU armed their Taliban enemies from Russias base in the country and is now plotting to help the group against Dushanbe, to which end it could redouble such ties with Pakistan. This could serve to create a rift between these allies that the US could then exploit for divide-and-rule purposes for prying Tajikistan away from the CSTO just like it practically already pried away Armenia.
That Russian-led bloc foreign military bases on members soil without prior consensus, yet the workaround as pioneered by the Armenian precedent is to or in the CSTO. This could unfold in the Tajik context if Trump patches up the US problems with Pakistan in pursuit of shared anti-Taliban interests, works with it and Dushanbe to arm that groups foes, and then to facilitate this.
would further worsen in parallel with improved Pakistani-US ones, but this would have the consequence of precluding Indias informal role in any forthcoming US-led regional pressure campaign against China as part of Trumps expected Pivot (back) to Asia. He might therefore be reminded by the Indophilic members of his administration of that countrys importance to the US grand strategic, which could get him to reconsider the abovementioned anti-Taliban scenario.
Regardless of whatever happens, there shouldnt be any doubt that the timing of The Insiders latest report about the Russian-Taliban bounty scandal and the details thereof are meant to influence Trumps foreign policy, though it can only be speculated whether theyll succeed in whole or in part. Upon analysing their intentions, it appears that they want to complicate Trumps peace talks with Russia, improve US ties with Pakistan at the expense of ties with India, and pry Tajikistan away from the CSTO.
The most effective way to counter this is for Trump to stay the course with his noble peace efforts for India to remind the US that documented Pakistani support for the Taliban was much more meaningful in all respects by far than whatever Russia allegedly gave the group in terms of arms and finances and for Russia to proactively reassure Tajikistan that itll never sacrifice its interests to the Taliban and offering more aid to it too in order to preemptively avert the possibility of the US outbidding it in the future.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are authors own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.
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