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• Syria – the Thirld World War does not start on Twitter

  Syria – the Thirld World War does not start on Twitter Corneliu PIVARIU Some days after the American president Donald Trump announced it on Twitter, more  exactly on the night of Friday to Saturday, April 14th at 04.00 Damascus time, the USA, Great Britain and France launched a missiles attack (Tomahawk and other air-to-ground bomber launched missiles) on punctual targets (one on the Damascus outskirts and two in Homs region) belonging to the chemical weapons program of Bashar Al-Assad’s [...]

  Published in 2018-04-20

• ”Fake news” - “everything changes since nothing changes”

  ”Fake news” - “everything changes since nothing changes” Corneliu PIVARIU Fake news (FN) was The Word of the Year 2017 (according to Collins Dictionary), a term which was not  to much in use two years ago. Nonetheless, the governments and influential people used the information as weapon thousands of years ago for maintaining and enforcing their power as well as for weakening their opponents/ competitors. The example used often for illustrating the term dates back to the Roman [...]

  Published in 2018-04-20

• Open letter to our readers

  Open letter to our readers With a precision worthy of a Swiss clockwork, Geostrategic Pulse has been issued during more than 10 years, more precisely since March 20, 2007,  on the 5th and the 20th of each month. Ever since the first three issues were distributed free of charge to some potential beneficiaries, Geostrategic Pulse grew gradually as number of pages, as number of beneficiaries as well as as number of authors contributing to the achievement of this private publication of geopolitical [...]

  Published in 2018-01-20

• Trump’s first 100 days

  Forget the doomsayers: Trump’s 100 days have been good for Europe Shada ISLAM US President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office have been a breathtaking rollercoaster ride for Americans, but also for many in Europe. He may be the least popular new president in the modern polling era (with an approval rating of just 41%) and mainstream American media (excluding Fox News and Breitbart) may talk disparagingly of ‘100 days of gibberish’, but the Trump presidency has been a wake-up [...]

  Published in 2017-05-05

• Iran improves its military capabilities for foreign intervention

  Iran improves its military capabilities for foreign intervention Corneliu PIVARIU Iran’s participation to the Syrian conflict evolved in time and its tracking leads to the conclusion that important transformations took place in Tehran leadership’s manner  of conceiving and carrying out extended military operations abroad. Damascus - Tehran relations have a recent history of constant evolution even from the time of Iran-Iraqi conflict (1980 - 1988), when Tehran needed the Syrian [...]

  Published in 2017-05-05

• Emmanuel Macron - “En Marche!” - to Élysée

  Emmanuel Macron -  “En Marche!” - to Élysée Corneliu PIVARIU A fulminant ascent of the French political stage of this young men, 39 years old, the founder and the candidate of En Marche! movement, established on April the 6th, 2016 only who won the first round of the French presidential elections and who is designated by all public opinion polls as winner of the second round (May the 7th) at a great distance from the second place, Marine Le Pen – the candidate of the [...]

  Published in 2017-05-05

• Syria – an equation whose solution is getting more complicated

  Syria – an equation whose solution is getting more complicated Corneliu PIVARIU Not very many military and geopolitical analists expected that the USA respond to the chemical attack carried out by the faithfuls of Bashar al-Assad in Idlib area (Khan Sheikhoun) by a direct military strike on Shayarat airbase (in Homs central region), from where the chemical attack was launched according to the Pentagon declaration. What almost everybody expectad was that Russia supports its Syrian ally in the Security [...]

  Published in 2017-04-20

• Nagorno-Karabakh – a punctual issue with extended implications

  Nagorno-Karabakh – a punctual issue with extended implications Corneliu PIVARIU The current situation in Nagorno-Karabakh has its roots in the gradual incorporation of South Caucasus in the Russian Empire and later on in the policy of the former Soviet Union of creating contentious areas in different parts of the satellite states in order to better control them. So, Nagorno-Karabakh, alongside Ossetia, Abhazia and Transnistria, each one with its own peculiarities, represents a region where Russia but [...]

  Published in 2017-04-20

• Holy Cross – the Resurrection’s seed

  Holy Cross – the Resurrection’s seed Father Gheorghe Colţea Reason tells us there can be no resurrection failing death. Reason, too, tells us nothing is more depressing and scarier than death. In a world confused and scared to death, Church, as a mother reassuring her children while watershed, tells us that resurrection is no delusion, stressing the certitude of this truth. Therefore, Church’s cult is impregnated by resurrection’s hope. Contrariwise, science and research, [...]

  Published in 2017-04-05

• What follows after Daesh in Iraq and Syria

  What follows after Daesh in Iraq and Syria Corneliu PIVARIU The fightings around Mosul and Raqqa continue as expected with Daesh (IS) losing gradually the positions it held, such as was the case with Tabka Dam, on Lake Assad, near Raqqa, where Daesh has set up previously a rather strong base. In Mosul, fighting started in the old town – a densely populated area where Daesh’s military elements were concentrated, and  very intense fighting  of urban type was taking place and bitter battles [...]

  Published in 2017-04-05