Middle East and Eastern Europe in tension
17
Feb
After threatening to suspend the truce that
began on January 19, Hamas accuses Israel of violating the agreement, this weekend three more hostages of the extremist group were returned in exchange for hundreds of prisoners, the hostages were displayed on a stage in the city of Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza (photo).
The three hostages: Israeli-American Sagui Dekel-Chen, Israeli-Russian Sasha Trupanov and Israeli-Argentinian Yair Horn, had been with Hamas since October 7 last year, the fateful terrorist attack.
The situation is tense because the American government does not accept the Hamas group’s governance in the region and is putting all kinds of pressure on the region to remain neutral.
In Eastern Europe, American policy is to consider that Ukraine will not be able to recover the territories lost in the war and is forcing a peace agreement with new borders, threatening to withdraw any support, but it is not without Russian advances in Europe. At the Arctic Pole, the Russian presence is notable, and forces from Canada, the USA, Denmark and Norway are already moving there.
Europe is not completely abandoning Ukraine, because it knows that Russia may not stop there, and has already threatened the Baltic countries, Moldova and Poland.
Last week, drones hit Chernobyl, and it seems that the drones were sent by Russia, hitting the central protection shield.
This Sunday (02/16) France declared that it would host a summit of European leaders this Monday (17) to discuss the war in the east and the security of Europe and seeks to respond to the unilateral approach of President Trump, who uses the policy of what is not good for the US does not concern him.
In all this spectrum of tensions and threats, there is always a background of hope for peace, for a return to common sense and for allowing peoples to live in peace, being able to cultivate their roots and their culture without xenophobia and wars.
