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Biden’s national security and foreign policy team
06
Dec
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Biden’s national security and foreign policy team

PEJOURNAL - Biden says “America is back” and “ready to lead the world.” The former vice president’s comments are an apparent reflection of what the world community should expect under his foreign policy mandate, because his team reflects the fact that America is once again ready to mess with the world for all the wrong reasons. Under the circumstances, expect Biden to not retreat from America’s endless wars. It will also sit once again at the head of the United Nations Security Council table releasing sanctions resolutions to confront sovereign nations with much needed help from Western allies, ready to stand…
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Russian Gas to Supply China through CREP from Dec 2020
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Dec
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Russian Gas to Supply China through CREP from Dec 2020

PEJOURNAL - China Russia East Pipeline (CREP) started to transmit natural gas from Changling Station in Jilin to Yongqing Station in Hebei, and CREP mid-section was officially put into commercial service. This 1,110 kilometers mid-section started construction from July 2019 and finished the whole project in 518 days, to provide 27 mcm/d natural gas supply to North China and help Beijing to spend 2020’s cold winter. China Russia East Pipeline was set to supply 8 bcm of natural gas in its first year, but Gazprom and CNPC adjusted the schedule to 5 bcm in 2020. However, the underdeveloped natural gas…
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The U.S. and allies have done little but inflamed West Asia
06
Dec
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The U.S. and allies have done little but inflamed West Asia

BY: Martin Love PEJOURNAL - Heiko Maas, Mike Pompeo, and people like them with their rabid policy announcements and ignorant fantasies try to give the impression of aiming for something positive and calming to a world and especially to a West Asia wracked by discord, but in fact they and their kind are doing just the opposite. “Inflaming” might be the best word for what they do and have long done. Heiko Maas, Germany’s foreign minister, must be crazy, literally. Or just a blind twit, like so many others in the “Western” establishment of lily-white bigots, racists and Christian imperialists. …
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Six Challenges of Bin Salman in the Biden Period
06
Dec
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Six Challenges of Bin Salman in the Biden Period

BY: Ruhollah Qasemian PEJOURNAL - With Biden coming and changing US foreign policy in the Middle East, we seem to be witnessing serious challenges and concerns for the throne of the young Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia ( Bin Salman ), the least likely of which is the formulation of US Middle East policy in Washington and the White House not in Riyadh and the court of King Salman. After the outcome of the US presidential election and Biden's decisive victory in the field of US foreign policy in the Middle East, two issues are eye-popping. The first is the…
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The evolution of Ansarullah’s military-weapons capability
05
Dec
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The evolution of Ansarullah’s military-weapons capability

PEJOURNAL - Ansarullah's (Yemen's Houthi movement) successful offensive-defensive operations over the past year have owed a remarkable shift in its military capabilities. The present article examines the evolution of Ansarullah's military-weapons capability and its impact on changing the balance of war. Carrying weapons by the Yemeni people and tribes has long been an accepted tradition. Yemen is said to have more than three times the population of weapons. This has intensified in recent years due to the critical situation in Yemen, and even Yemeni children are able to carry and use weapons without any restrictions. As one of Yemen's frontier…
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A murder has made a dark Middle East darker than ever
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Nov
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A murder has made a dark Middle East darker than ever

BY: Martin Love Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands by a screen with an image of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh during a news conference at the Ministry of Defence in Tel Aviv PEJOURNAL - Joe Biden’s up and coming “climate” czar John Kerry has claimed the reason Russia came to Syria’s aide several years ago was because ISIS was threatening Damascus in the heart of Middle East. And he also more or less admitted to the U.S. role assisting ISIS because the U.S. thought Syria might thus be brought to the negotiating table. But what has been most elusive…
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The decline of the West
28
Nov
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The decline of the West

BY: Zory Petzova Translated BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - The eponymous bestseller " The decline of the West" by O. Spengler, published exactly a century ago, has caused several generations of readers to melancholy pining at the idea of ​​the inevitable decline inherent in the fate of Western civilization. Despite having perfectly grasped the causes of a decadent perspective, Spengler's thought has the theoretical flaw of considering the history of every civilization as a biological organism which, having completed its natural stages of development, eventually dies. In reality, what dies is not the physical body of civilization, but its elites…
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Biden wants to recover the Iranian nuclear deal (JCPOA) but it’s not that simple
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Nov
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Biden wants to recover the Iranian nuclear deal (JCPOA) but it’s not that simple

BY:  Paolo Mauri Translated BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - In the electoral program of Joe Biden, president-elect (for now) of the United States, there is the desire to recover the Iranian nuclear deal, the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) wanted by Barack Obama in 2015 and rejected by Donald Trump in May 2018. The treaty was aimed at ensuring that Iranian nuclear development was solely and exclusively aimed at peaceful ends, thus allowing the gradual withdrawal of international sanctions that have almost strangled the country's economy. However, for the United States, re-entering the stretch may not be so simple…
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British Government Announces Major Defense Spending Boost
22
Nov
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British Government Announces Major Defense Spending Boost

BY: Daniel Darling In what may reasonably be described as a surprise, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a major investment package for the Ministry of Defense – marking the largest such spending boost since the end of the Cold War. The four-year funding deal amounts to an extra £16.5 billion ($21.9 billion) for the armed forces – a sharp break from the expected financial squeeze facing the MoD as the U.K. struggles with the economic and fiscal fallout stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. When Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak cancelled the expected comprehensive spending review in October…
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US sanctions against Iran under Trump
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Nov
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US sanctions against Iran under Trump

BY: Political Economy Journal PEJOURNAL - U.S. government under Trump imposed many sanctions on Iran to force the Islamic Republic to accept the security interests of the West. This note assesses the characteristics of these sanctions. On May 8, 2018, US President Donald Trump kept his promise to leave JCPOA. The move marked the beginning of a policy called "maximum pressure" to force Iran to negotiate favorably with the West in the nuclear, missile and regional spheres. Sanctions, number and objectives The Trump government had imposed sanctions on Iran six times before leaving JCPOA, but then imposed sanctions on Iran…
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