Day: February 1, 2024
Un marché de dupes❗️Comme le dit William Burns, directeur de la CIA : “La guerre en Ukraine est un investissement relativement modeste avec des rendements géopolitiques importants.”… C’est d’autant plus rentable quand ce sont les 🇪🇺 qui payent ⁉️ 📐👁️💰🌐🇬🇧🇺🇸💶💶💶💶 https://t.co/zMQh8r1TWJ
— IMBERT (@Jean_IMBERT) February 1, 2024

Ukrainian national resistance, incontestably lethal and strikingly durable, provides an enticing blueprint for small nations threatened by aggressive powers. The rush to learn lessons, mimic actions, and draw conclusions from Ukraine is an established industry. It should be. Ukraine’s response to Russian conquest serves up an innovative and gutsy trove of tactics and methods to adopt for national defense strategies. Two years into a war that many predicted it would lose quickly, Ukraine deserves this respect and study. But despite this, it would still be a mistake to treat the “Ukraine model of resistance” as a readily applicable model. Before
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Once a pacific sea in a notoriously violent region Ecuador’s is a story of paradise lost. Prison riots. Cocaine. And cartels. The world’s insatiable demand for the drug has destabilized countries and has prompted Ecuador to use the military to quell civil unrest. The afternoon edition of Ecuador’s state-owned TC news proceeded like any other day, with segments on sports, weather, and, of course, politics — until masked and hooded gunmen burst into the studio, completing a hostile takeover televised live to a shocked nation. During a harrowing public broadcast lasting nearly 20 minutes, members of the Tiguerones gang brandished
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