On September 8, 2025 an online summit of the BRICS interstate association is scheduled to take place.   The meeting is organized by the alliance's rotating chair Brazil, at the initiative of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The emergency summit will focus on US trade policy. Lula da Silva wants the BRICS members to formulate a common strategy for responding to the tariffs imposed by the Donald Trump administration. Special feature on the history of BRICS and its...

Europe will be destroyed by the Russian army, should it try to directly get involved in a war with Russia, former US Marine Corps intelligence analyst and former weapons of mass destruction inspector of the UN special commission on Iraq Scott Ritter said in an interview.   Ritter was asked whether European countries would be able to resume the conflict in Ukraine if they were not satisfied with the peace treaty. His reply was as follows: With what resources? 16% of the German...

President Donald Trump, as expected, announced plans to ship another batch of weapons to Ukraine and threatened to impose tariffs on Russia and its trade partners if Moscow and Washington fail to agree on a conflict settlement within 50 days. This was the "little surprise" that the US president promised last week....   Highlights of Trump's statements, which he made at a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. Weapons shipments The US and NATO have reached an agreement that...

An pro-regime Iranian patriot and military analyst claims Israel inflicted a devastating and strategic defeat on the Islamic Republic, forcing Tehran to plead for a ceasefire.    According to his post, this ceasefire is not a victory for Iran, but merely a pause before even more intense future conflicts.   He says Israel launched a pre-planned operation that not only shattered Iran’s military capabilities but also instilled fear among regime leaders. With no...

By the end of the decade, the media may no longer exist.   Over the last twenty years, the media, an institution that had defined American politics in the twentieth century, began a decline that has wiped out its influence, its finances and its future. Ask anyone in the media what happened and they will blame the internet, social media, disinformation, echo chambers and other tired buzzwords directing the fault elsewhere. The reality is that the media killed itself. The media lost...

Let’s be realistic about war!   In recent years a conviction has taken hold among some on the right, usually held by the left, that wars were an unnatural state of affairs that would not exist without conspiracies by the military-industrial complex, profiteering defense contractors, warmongers, covert interests looking to spread chaos, and everyone and everything except the actual causes of wars. Most wars are fought to seize territory. Denying one of the most basic patterns...

Israel Seeks Gains in Other Arenas - Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser   The agreement to begin the release of hostages in exchange for a 42-day ceasefire—intended to transition into a permanent one—includes significant concessions. These involve the release of a large number of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel, including numerous convicted murderers, the return of the Palestinian population to northern Gaza, the influx of humanitarian aid, the reduction of the...

As Turkey doubles down on its Islamist agenda, the Kurds remain one of the region’s few forces pushing in the opposite direction.   In 2014, as Syria descended into chaos, the United States made a pragmatic decision. Section 1209 of the National Defense Authorization Act authorized the Pentagon to arm and train vetted Syrian opposition groups. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) emerged as Washington’s most reliable partner. With U.S. support, the Kurds...

The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria will force Iran to make significant shifts in its military doctrine, analysts told The Press Service of Israel   “This is going to force the Iranians to make serious compromises in the long run, because they are now more exposed in the region and they are more exposed internationally, and also because of the weakening economic situation and the isolation of the regime,” Dr. Meir Javedanfar, an Iran lecturer at Reichman...

As jihadist rebels gain ground in Syria at the expense of Iran, an analyst told The Press Service of Israel that “a quick victory” of Islamists in Syria is bad for Israel.   “A long-term conflict in Syria between pro-Turkish Sunni groups, very close to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, on the one hand, and what they call the Iranian ‘axis of resistance’ on the other hand, is good for Israel because it reduces the resources that both of them can throw into...

We are in the midst of a powerful Russian response across Ukraine.    Fyodor Lukyanov, in his incisive analysis, points out that the ongoing standoff over Ukraine has effectively become a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO (US), two nuclear-armed entities now operating without the safeguards of Cold War diplomacy. The breakdown of private, backchannel communication, once the cornerstone of managing nuclear deterrence, has given way to comms via public posturing playing...

Experts unanimously agree that international forces tasked with preventing the organization’s resurgence in southern Lebanon are unlikely to succeed.   While Israel has achieved many of its goals in the war against Hezbollah, the blow to the terrorist organization was not fatal, and the future of an anticipated ceasefire agreement will depend on Israel’s ability to prevent future attacks, experts told The Press Service of Israel. “The Israeli objective –...