19/03/22 | Foreign Shorts
Chinese aircraft carrier a few miles from Taiwan
While the war rages on in Europe, reactions to the passage of a Chinese ship in Taiwanese waters remind us that the geopolitical quadrants are multiple, never asynchronous and always ...
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19/03/22 | Foreign Shorts
Thousands of Russian soldiers killed and maimed on the Kiev front alone
How many dead are there among Russian troops in Ukraine? Difficult to say: we only know the names of five generals - probably, out of seven actually killed - and numerous others ...
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18/03/22 | Foreign Shorts
The grip on Mariupol, the mockery of Kherson and the trap of Kiev… The war continues
The situation on the ground in Ukraine speaks of ongoing offensives and counter-offensives and increasingly confirms that if both sides are not in a position to lose, none of the ...
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18/03/22 | Analysis
To the gas barrel
The Russian-Ukrainian crisis, reawakening dormant memories of the 30s, has whetted the desire for further banks; abdicated to Libyan politics, Italian politics has ...
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17/03/22 | Analysis
Russian-style Titanic
In Ukraine, in parallel with the fierce fighting on the ground, the battle of information is also becoming increasingly heated. To the pictures of hospitals bombed by the Russians, these ...
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16/03/22 | Report
45 HOURS: Veterans and a deputy bring humanitarian aid to Ukraine
Meeting point in the immediate outskirts of Milan, we all come together to give the vehicles a final arrangement and leave for Ukraine. It is 8.00 am on Friday 11 ...
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16/03/22 | Analysis
Why Mariupol, like Sagunto, must not fall and why this is already the third world war
A part of Western leaders and public opinion is almost cheering on the Russian forces that converged on Mariupol from Donbass and Crimea and closed it off by land ...
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15/03/22 | Foreign Shorts
Western weapons go to the Russians
The Italian Parliament today voted on a new shipment of arms to Ukraine, in the vain hope that they will at least slow down (I don't think anyone seriously thinks that ...
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14/03/22 | Analysis
They are drops of oil
There is no chessboard that with its 32 pieces does not bring to mind strategy and conflict; going beyond the surface, ...
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12/03/22 | Analysis
Let me explain why Taiwan has reasons not to be calm
We have already written about Taiwan's defense doctrine, as well as about the measures that the rebel island intends to implement ...
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11/03/22 | Foreign Shorts
Ukraine: Has the Russian convoy north of Kiev dispersed? Is the siege of the capital imminent? Here's where it ended up
Remember the headlines and politicians' comments on Kiev's next fall in the aftermath of the attack ...
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11/03/22 | Analysis
The new president of Chile tries to change the country
In Chile the winner of the second round of the presidential elections of December 19, 2021 officially takes office ...
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10/03/22 | Analysis
MINURSO: bulwark for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in West Africa
On 25 January the MINURSO (Mission des Nations Unies pour l'Organisation d'un Référendum au Sahara Occidental) was ...
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09/03/22 | Analysis
The true meaning of Israeli mediation
Continue to monitor if and which satellites of the great powers mobilize to mediate in the conflict in Ukraine ...
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06/03/22 | Foreign Shorts
Not only Ukraine: Libya is also on fire
The Mediterranean is increasingly confirmed as the pressure cooker of global geopolitics. After the naval maneuvers ...
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03/03/22 | Analysis
Do not die of Moldova
The east wind has been blowing over central Europe for some time now; actually it never stopped sweeping the plains ...
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02/03/22 | Foreign Shorts
The war spreads: Belarus prepares to attack Ukraine from the north. Moldova and Finland instead ...
The war threatens to officially spread to other countries besides Russia and Ukraine. Minsk is accumulating ...
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28/02/22 | Foreign Shorts
The signs of conflict and divisions at the top of Russia
There are rumors about the forthcoming "torpedoing" of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, a diplomatic expert of the time ...
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28/02/22 | Analysis
The battle around the huge Energodar nuclear power plant: a bottleneck for mankind
The Russian mechanized troops, after having failed the occupation of Melitopol in four uninterrupted days of ...
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28/02/22 | Analysis
Germany is sending arms to Ukraine, but it must play the game of the United States
One of the ways to observe the evolution of the conflict in Ukraine is to record the behavior of the satellites of ...
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Letter to Online Defense: "The Italian Army and combat training"
The Ukrainian crisis and the consequent possibility of the Italian Army being involved in a high-intensity conflict have made the problem of capabilities forcefully topical again ...
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