STRATEGIC ALERT Service

August 6 and 9 marked the 81st anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It should have served as a sobering reminder to all of the absolute folly of the use of nuclear weapons, whenever and of whatever form. Precisely that was the purpose of the Aug. 7 weekly meeting of the International Peace […]

On August 7 in Mekkah (Mecca), Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signed a joint defense agreement during a meeting hosted by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. This initiative is yet another reflection of the fundamental shift in international relations taking place, and its ramifications in South-West and […]

The Wall Street Journal claimed on Aug. 10 that President Trump had for weeks been laying the groundwork for declaring victory and walking away from the Iran war, even without an agreement on Iran’s alleged nuclear program, provided Tehran fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz. “But that scaled-back objective became more difficult when Iran insisted Saturday [Aug. 8] on its […]

On July 23, NATO military committee head Adm. Giuseppe Cavo Dragone stated, in an interview to the Kyiv Independent, that Ukraine is turning the tide of the war, according to “information provided by NATO headquarters”. He claimed that Kyiv is “gaining, not losing” ground, and that Moscow’s “strong reaction” may be driven by “frustration”. Experienced military officers have reacted with […]

On Aug. 5 , a 25-cm long drone with a rudimentary explosive charge (unexploded) was found at the Leipzig airport, in the vicinity of a Ukrainian Antonov loaded with weapons and munitions headed for Kyiv. The immediate response by government officials, who spoke of a “hybrid attack by a foreign state”, together with the media blaming Moscow for the attack, […]

Over 700 million barrels of government and private strategic oil reserves have been poured onto the market to partially offset the 20% missing from the Gulf region, since the war against Iran began. However, it is calculated that by September/October, strategic reserves will have reached their operational limit and, even if the Hormuz Strait were reopened today, it would take […]

The much awaited summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is still scheduled to take place at the end of September in Washington, despite many and varied attempts by the anti-China lobby in the U.S. to upend the plan. The trade war is one issue that will undoubtedly be at the center of their discussions. On July 28, it […]

His Excellency Youssouf Abassalah, ambassador of the Republic of Chad to Germany, was a featured speaker at the July 31 online EIR Roundtable on the migration crisis, which was held in conjunction with the International Peace Coalition (cf. SAS 32/26). Ambassador Abassalah is perfectly aware of the problems posed by migration, both for the countries the migrants leave, and those […]

The north-south Trans-Saharan rail corridor is an ambitious project designed to link the port of Algiers, on the Mediterranean coast, to Tamanrasset in the south of the country. The corridor would eventually be extended to Niger and to the broader Sahel region, thus serving as a driver for regional integration and economic development. A core segment of the corridor will […]

In the two major conflicts in the world today, which are merging into one, involving NATO and Ukraine against Russia on the one hand, and the U.S. and Israel against Iran on the other, the danger of escalation remains acute. Just after Donald Trump had vowed on July 31 to hit Iran “very hard” and the State Department had advised […]