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francesco strazzari
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professor of international relations | studies armed conflict and social change
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No person has been closer to Volodymyr Zelenskyy since the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine than Andriy Yermak — and no absence may matter more.

My analysis with @fabricedeprez.bsky.social on today’s massive political shakeup in Kyiv.
www.ft.com/content/56f7...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy loses brother-in-arms in Kyiv power shift
President’s departing aide centralised decision-making in a way no other official had done in Ukraine
www.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
some drug smugglers are more equal than others
Trump is pardoning former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez who is currently serving a 45-year sentence in a US prison on involvement in the drug trade.
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Cold blooded murder.
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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General Horta Inta-A appoints new prime minister amid growing condemnation of military coup in West African nation.
Guinea-Bissau’s new military ruler moves to consolidate power after coup
General Horta Inta-A appoints new prime minister amid growing condemnation of military coup in West African nation.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Dekleptocracy: chemicals used to make mechanical lubricants and military-grade tyres are a vulnerability that US, UK and EU policymakers could exploit.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
West is ‘missing obscure sanctions that could set back Russia’s war machine’
US group Dekleptocracy identifies additives for military vehicles’ lubricants and tyres as potential vulnerabilities
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
happy Dayton anniversary

Croatian investigative reporter files complaint with Milan prosecutors against the Serbian president Vučić, for his alleged involvement in the “Sarajevo safari affair" (snipers from Italy travelling to kill civilians in the 1990s).
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Serbian president faces legal complaint in Sarajevo ‘sniper-tourism’ case
Milan allegations link Aleksandar Vučić to 1990s shootings of civilians in Bosnian capital by Italians and others
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
sul Manifesto oggi scrivo di come il 'piano di pace' per l'ucraina russo-americano crei una zona grigia a consolidamento ideologico di aspirazioni egemoniche, cementando su macerie e cadaveri i rapporti di potere fra uomini forti e ideologicamente affini

ilmanifesto.it/una-non-pace...
Una non-pace “storica” per l’Ucraina | il manifesto
Ucraina (Editoriale) È nato un nuovo piano di pace? Se è nato, chi è il padre? Dice Peskov che i negoziati erano stati fermati «dal regime di Kiev». Come se Mosca avesse fermato i missili sui condomin...
ilmanifesto.it
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I have written with Morten Boas an analysis of the evolving geopolitical imaginaries of #Russia’s projection in #Africa.

Just released in Open Access special issue of for @Geopolitics_Jl edited by @Raineri_Lu

Available here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Borders Ending Nowhere: The Geopolitical Imaginaries and Practices of Russia’s Spheres of Interest in Africa
Russia has been involved in Africa since Tsarist times, but its involvement has ebbed and flowed. Nonetheless, the idea of Africa as an open political landscape in which Russia could act as a great...
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
a recent example of Malian military operations: a family erased | Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
A Family Erased in Mali
A quiet desert night in northern Mali turned deadly when an apparent military drone launched its explosive munition on a tent, leaving an entire family dead. The strike was a recent example of Malian ...
www.hrw.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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UN Security Council to vote on US plan for Gaza force amid pushback
<article data-history-node-id="431525" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-security-council-vote-us-plan-gaza-force-amid-pushback" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-security-council-vote-us-plan-gaza-force-amid-pushback" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UN Security Council to vote on US plan for Gaza force amid pushback</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="441" data-start="236">The UN Security Council is expected to vote on Monday on a US-backed plan to authorise an international military force in Gaza, even as Russia, China and several Arab states push back against the proposal.</p> <p data-end="835" data-start="443">The move comes as the first phase of the ceasefire reaches its final hours. What follows is far more complicated: establishing a governing authority for Gaza, deploying a foreign “stabilisation” force on the ground, and navigating the highly contentious demand for Hamas’s disarmament.</p> <p data-end="835" data-start="443">None of it is settled, and diplomats admit they have little clarity on how any of these steps will unfold.</p> <p data-end="1210" data-start="837">For Palestinians who have survived months of devastation, the uncertainty carries a familiar fear, that Israel may resume the kind of large-scale assault that levelled neighbourhoods and wiped out families.</p> <p data-end="1210" data-start="837">Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 69,187 Palestinians, overwhelmingly women and children, since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Over the last decade a big tent coalition created a hegemonic "common sense" in US : public investment to fight climate change would undo the economic and political damage of deindustrialization, AND contain China.

Superb piece by my collaborator Ted Fertik. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The Anti-Climate Common Sense | Ted Fertik
How a new climate common sense was built and how Trump’s assault threatens its unraveling
www.phenomenalworld.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Watershed?
In a landmark vote in the European Parliament, the center-right EPP — home to EU Commission President Von der Leyen — abandoned its allies and pressed ahead with the support of far-right groups to approve cuts to green rules

x.com/politicoeuro...
POLITICOEurope on X: "Welcome to the new European Parliament.  In the year and a half since the far right surged at the EU election, Brussels’ mainstream forces have been anxiously wondering if the center can hold. Yesterday, they discovered it couldn’t. https://t.co/mTWpVV9FYu" / X
Welcome to the new European Parliament.  In the year and a half since the far right surged at the EU election, Brussels’ mainstream forces have been anxiously wondering if the center can hold. Yesterday, they discovered it couldn’t. https://t.co/mTWpVV9FYu
x.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Every year, as winter nears, high concentrations of fine particulate matter are registered in the Po Valley with the highest peaks exceeding 75 µg/m³ - i.e., 4 times higher than the daily limit recommended by the WHO.

Needless to say, this is not a topic in Italian politics
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
where Italy leads in Europe
(thanks to lobbying against sugar tax, lack of regulation, etc)
brilliantmaps.com/fanta-sugar/
How Much Sugar Is In Fanta In Each European Country
This map illustrates the amount of sugar in 100 ml of Fanta Orange across different European countries. The map uses three color codes to indicate the sugar content:
brilliantmaps.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"New Delhi is no longer livable"

www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
forced confessions, torture and an inability to afford lawyers to defend themselves: since the start of 2024, at least 264 foreign nationals have been executed for drug crimes in #SaudiArabia (the Guardian)

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
November 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Next monday in Pisa!
📩 Join Democracy on the brink by emailing Sophie at Sophie.gueudet@scuolasuperioresantanna.it

The event explores:
🔹 Georgia’s authoritarian drift and civic resistance
🔹 Ukraine’s democracy under the test of war
🔹 Academic activism in times of democratic crisis
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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He explicitly encouraged the Capitol riot
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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So many stories, verified, like this coming out of US about ICE detention right now. Let's just be totally clear, it is not hyperbole to call ICE "Trump's Gestapo", or their detention sites concentration camps. They meet all of the criteria. Anywhere else this would be receiving global condemnation.
A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ceaucescu, it's you?
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM