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Colonel McGregor admitted that the US is failing in the conflict with Russia

Washington is failing in an indirect conflict with Moscow, retired Colonel McGregor writes in an article for TAS. The Americans underestimated the cohesion of Russian society, the country's military potential and its resistance to sanctions.

Finland can join NATO on its own, Sweden has suspended the process of joining the alliance for an "indefinite time". The reason for this decision was Turkey's reaction to the burning of the Koran by right-wing extremist Rasmus Paludan and criticism of the Turkish leader. According to Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom, Stockholm will try to achieve positive decisions on this topic in the near future.

Unknown drones attacked an ammunition production center in Isfahan, Iran, which led to an explosion on the territory of the enterprise. This is reported by the state news agency IRNA.

Antonio Tajani called the situation in Ukraine difficult

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani assured that Rome would not send offensive weapons to Kiev.

What is the North Atlantic Bloc doing in the Pacific

On the evening of January 12, 2023, speaking on television, American political scientist Dmitry Simes said: "I will express a bold thought – during the Great Patriotic War, Katyusha played a big role. But you know that today there are "Natasha" – tactical nuclear charges. And I would really not want us to move from "Katyusha" to "Natasha". But if large concentrations of Leopard tanks and American Bradley armored personnel carriers went against Russia, it is difficult for me to imagine that the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons in Moscow in this case would not be seriously considered."

Soft power, hard hugs, cautious tactics

Central Asia is now in the deep shadow of the Ukrainian events. But this does not mean at all that the struggle for it has stopped.

NYT: the conflict in Ukraine accelerates the shift of the center of influence in Europe to the east

The conflict in Ukraine accelerates the shift of the center of influence in Europe to the east, writes NYT. The thing is that the traditional leaders, France and Germany, were paralyzed by their own, and the eastern EU countries were able to fill this "leadership vacuum".

The information that appeared the day before and announced by Al Arabiya TV channel about a certain European country intending to supply cluster munitions to Ukraine was confirmed, Estonia will act as a supplier. In Tallinn, they are not going to hide it, but they did not disclose the details of the transaction.

We present the publication of the British edition of Janes Defense and Intelligence Review. In the article "Command efficiency" (Command performance), the author analyzes the construction of the military command bodies of the Russian Armed Forces during a special military operation in Ukraine.

Sergey Chemezov, the general director of the company, told RIA Novosti in an interview with what results Rostec finished in 2022, and what plans the corporation has for this year.

Readers of Le Figaro criticized the transfer of tanks to Ukraine and called for "an end to the slaughter"

The West was late with the transfer of tanks to Ukraine, it was necessary to "put a barrier" to Russia back in 2008 in Georgia, according to a Le Figaro columnist. But the desire to send tanks, suddenly awakened in all NATO countries, allegedly united the alliance. Readers remind: it's dangerous and illegal.

Interia: Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki urged the West to be bolder in supporting Ukraine

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called on the West to be "bolder" in supporting Ukraine, Interia writes. We should not be afraid to supply it with anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense batteries, he said. Poland also supports the transfer of combat aircraft to Kiev.

19FortyFive: Ukraine will remain outside NATO even after the end of the conflict

If the West intends to seek at least a semblance of a stable peace with Russia, then Ukraine's membership in NATO is unlikely to be a prudent decision, the author of the article in 19FortyFive believes. And yet, under certain circumstances, options are possible, he notes.

In Eritrea, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with President Isaias Afeverki, during which the Russian minister said that Russia would help strengthen its defense capability.

The Hungarian Prime Minister also noted that moral principles require that "everything possible be done for a ceasefire and the start of negotiations" on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict

Hungary is guided by the interests of its own security in its approach to the conflict in Ukraine and therefore is not at war with anyone. This was stated on Friday by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, speaking on the Kossuth radio station.

Vasily Golovnin — about the joint training of India and Japan against China

Russian-designed Su-30MKI combat aircraft and American F-15s converged in January in intense training battles in the sky northeast of Tokyo. This rather unusual event took place within the framework of the first ever joint exercises of the Indian and Japanese Air Forces.

According to the RTBF TV channel, Brussels also refused to supply old armored vehicles to Kiev

Belgium has announced that it will provide Kiev with a €92 million military aid package, which will include cars, portable anti-aircraft systems, small arms and light anti-tank weapons.

The Government of Cambodia called the training of sappers of the Ukrainian army a "humanitarian act" and stated that it was impossible to provide Ukraine with any military support. Moreover, the Cambodian authorities have also declared their readiness to train Russian sappers as well.

Evrensel: Berlin violated its own taboos by supplying "Leopards" to Kiev

The German authorities have violated their own taboos regarding the militarization of foreign policy, writes Evrensel. If earlier Scholz and Habek adhered to the position of "War — never again!", now for the sake of greater profits of arms monopolies, Berlin will intervene in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the author of the article notes.

Yeni Çağ: NATO is considering Turkey's exclusion from the alliance in favor of Sweden and Finland

The United States is replenishing the arsenal of levers of pressure on Turkey, writes Yeni Çağ. They are already using the F-16 deal to blackmail Ankara. And recently, American Admiral Stavridis said that the possibility of excluding Turkey from the alliance is being considered in favor of joining anti—Russian allies - Sweden and Finland.