| April 2012 |
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Last March, at the peak of the pressure on Syria and Iran, the Syrian Kurds boldly declared the independence of West Kurdistan, with the city of Afrin as the capital. The territory thus claimed lies in the northern part of Syria and borders Turkey.
The first round of the presidential election will take place in France on April, 22, 2012. If the second round is necessary, it’s scheduled on May, 6, 2012. Socialist François Hollande lays claim to the laurels of French president in power.
Now living through a kind of a social crisis, Germans are looking forward to early land elections in the country’s most populous (17.8 million) state of North Rhine-Westphalia scheduled for May 13.
American author Anne O'Hare McCormick packaged into a single phrase the lessons to be derived from the tumultuous epochs when she famously wrote: “Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.”
Elementary arithmetic routinely holds keys to much more complex political algebra. At the moment, for example, it appears that fairly simple regards explain the bizarre conduct of the Arab League which, contrary to reasonable expectations, aligned itself with the West in destabilizing Syria and keeping B. Assad under pressure.
Oil embargo of the European Union on Iran: punishment with postponement - “War of nerves” in the Persian Gulf - Oil import embargo on Iran. There are a number of factors nowadays which demolish the War Conceptions, well-established from the Clausewitz times on.
How do foreign investors take the prospects, which are opening up for them in Russia after the presidential elections?
The EU oil embargo recently slapped on Iran led watchers to conclude that an armed conflict between Iran and the West finally became imminent.
The current situation in Syria remains one of the most important components of the Middle Eastern and international policies.