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Analysis February 13, 2024 Can Europe Hold the Line on Ukraine? By: Mitchell Orenstein When it comes to supporting Ukraine, the European Union has taken a decisive lead over the United States. On February 1, Brussels passed a massive, four-year, 50 billion euro (roughly $53.7 billion) package of aid to Ukraine. At the... Read more	Analysis February 13, 2024 Indonesia’s Presidential Elections: Old Guard, New Guard, and TikTok By: Thai-Binh Elston The biggest single-day election on the planet is taking place on February 14 in Indonesia. It is the world’s third-largest democracy, largest Muslim-majority country, and tenth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. About 206 million domestic voters and 1.5 million... Read more
Reports February 7, 2024 Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in the “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine By: Igor Delanoë Key Findings Russia’s Black Sea Fleet’s supremacy on the Black Sea naval theater was contested in the early stage of the conflict. Ukraine’s anti-surface and drone capacities have challenged the Black Sea Fleet’s supremacy at sea, creating a... Read more	Analysis February 6, 2024 An Israeli Diplomatic Strategy to Undercut Hamas Propaganda By: Ted Singer Editor’s Note: This is the first of two articles that will be released this week regarding the War in Gaza for FPRI’s Center for the Study of Intelligence and Nontraditional Warfare. This article by an experienced, retired CIA Arabist,... Read more
Analysis Baltic Bulletin February 2, 2024 The Baltic Defense Line By: Lukas Milevski The three Baltic states jointly announced on Jan. 19, 2024, their intention to build a defensive line along their borders with Russia and Belarus. Initial details are scarce. The defensive line will not include coastal defenses — Baltic coasts... Read more	Analysis January 29, 2024 Playing Chess with Iran: Deterrence Without Provocation By: Leon Hadar The Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 came out of the blue. The Palestinian terrorist group struck at a time when the White House believed there wasn’t any major threat to stability in the Middle East and... Read more