WORLD ROUNDUPChina and the U.S. Are Numb to the Real Risk of War | Russia Recruiting Far-Right Extremists to Launch Attacks in the West | The Awfulness of War Can’t Be Avoided, and more
· Russia Recruiting Far-Right Extremists to Launch Attacks in the West
Kremlin intelligence service finds agents to target infrastructure facilities, it is claimed
· British Spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
· Elon Musk Wins Court Battle to Show Sydney Church Stabbing on X
The government had won an injunction to stop footage of the attack in a Sydney church being shared on social media platforms but a judge has overturned the decision
· The Awfulness of War Can’t Be Avoided
Western leaders do themselves no good when they avoid confronting hard necessities
· Islamic State’s Global Financial Networks
Cryptocurrency and European bank transfers fund detained IS women and fighters in Syria, furthering militant objectives
· North Korea Might Ignore Donald Trump If He Takes Back the White House
Having been burned once or twice by Trump, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un is not eager to try again. In truth, he has already gotten what he most wanted from Trump: international legitimacy
· Europe’s Youth Are Fueling the Far Right
The continent’s radicals are increasingly attractive far beyond their traditional pool of voters
· China and the U.S. Are Numb to the Real Risk of War
The pair are dangerously close to the edge of nuclear war over Taiwan—again
Russia Recruiting Far-Right Extremists to Launch Attacks in the West (Sean Rayment, The Telegraph)
Russia is recruiting far-Right extremists to carry out attacks in the UK and NATO countries, The Telegraph understands.
British Spies and the IRA (Henry Hemming, The Critic)
The two most boring words in the English language? For a time, the answer from almost every news editor in London was “Northern Ireland”. Then came the Belfast Agreement, signed 26 years ago on Good Friday, 1998.
Elon Musk Wins Court Battle to Show Sydney Church Stabbing on X (Bernard Lagan, The Times)
Twitter/X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, has won a legal victory over the Australian government, which tried to ban footage of a radicalized teenager stabbing a bishop in Sydney.
The Awfulness of War Can’t Be Avoided (Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic)
The case of Israel against Hamas, and specifically the question of a potential invasion of Rafah, Gaza, is particularly striking. Freezing the conflict before the destruction of Hamas as an effective military organization (as a political movement, it may last a very long time) has no prospect of delivering anything remotely like peace.
Islamic State’s Global Financial Networks (Mona Thakkar and Anne Speckhard, HSToday)
Five years after the demise of IS’s territorial caliphate in Syria and the subsequent arrival of the IS families in northeastern Syrian camps, IS and its aligned international networks continue to exploit the global financial system marked by their increased use of cryptocurrencies to raise funds for the detainees’ daily needs and securing their escapes via smuggling.
North Korea Might Ignore Donald Trump If He Takes Back the White House (Ralph A. Cossa, National Interest)
During a recent visit to Seoul, every conversation I had quickly got down to one key question: “What happens if Trump is reelected?”
Europe’s Youth Are Fueling the Far Right (Paul Hockenos, Foreign Policy)
Evidence is mounting that Europe’s far right will score better than ever before in the upcoming European Parliament elections on June 6 to June 9—and that the continent’s young voters will fuel its ascent.
China and the U.S. Are Numb to the Real Risk of War (Sulmaan Wasif Khan, Foreign Policy)
Beijing and Washington have become desensitized to the risk these circumstances pose. But in the militarization of foreign policy and the failure to grasp the full significance of that militarization, the pair are one accident and a bad decision removed from a catastrophic war.
