A fireball rises from an Israeli strike on a Houthi target in Yemen, December 26, 2024 (CNN)
Ray Murphy of the Irish Centre for Human Rights and I joined RTE Radio 1’s Colm Ó Mongáin on Friday to review the situation in the world and to anticipate what may happen in 2025.
Listen to Discussion from 1:03.18
We begin the 21-minute conversation with escalating attacks between Israel and Yemen, and then evaluate the Netanyahu Government’s 14 1/2-month “open-ended” war on Gaza as well as the Israeli occupation of part of liberated Syria.
It’s in Netanyahu’s interest to expand war as far as possible. If all the wars stop, he faces early elections and, perhaps more seriously, an ongoing bribery trial.
And there will be no limit on Netanyahu from the Trump Administration: Bibi’s part of Trump’s friends and family foreign policy.
We move to Russia’s 34-month invasion of Ukraine, asking if a settlement might be possible in which Kyiv gives up some territory — at least in the short-term — in return for accession to NATO and the European Union.
The big question in 2025 is whether Ukraine gets the political and economic support that it needs despite the threat from the Trump Administration taking office.
Murphy then considers the extent of Russia’s defeat in Syria with the fall of its client, the Assad regime.
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