The Military Industrial Complex, as represented by incumbent president Joe Biden, “seems to want to make sure they get World War 3 going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives.” So tweeted Donald Trump Jr., son of the eponymous president-elect. Other Trumpies weighed in too: “No one anticipated that Joe…
US President Biden’s decision to provide antipersonnel mines comes after Ukraine fired ATACMS missiles into Russia. US President Joe Biden has approved providing antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine in what has been seen as another policy reversal on weapons provided to Kyiv by the outgoing United States administration, according to reports. The US expects Ukraine…
European markets lurched after Ukraine used long-range US missiles to attack deep inside Russia for the first time and the Kremlin announced an updated nuclear-weapons doctrine. Polish stocks and the zloty currency led a wider transatlantic selloff as investors used the Eastern European country’s assets as a proxy for escalating risk. Traditional haven assets including…
The attack on the Russian Bryansk region from Ukraine, using U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles is a signal that the West wants to escalate the Ukraine conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday. The minister, who was speaking in Rio de Janeiro at the G20 Summit, told reporters: “The fact that ATACMS were used repeatedly in…
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO — It’s been two weeks since Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, in part on a pledge to aggressively purge the small city of Springfield, Ohio, of its large Haitian immigrant population. To the president-elect, it doesn’t matter that the Haitian workers and families are there legally; he has vowed that “we’re…
The Kremlin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov had earlier said the use of American weapons to attack targets in Russia constituted “a qualitatively new situation in terms of the involvement of the United States in this conflict.” The Russian military has long been using foreign-made weapons, such as Iranian Shahed drones, to attack Ukraine. Earlier this year, Macron…
The deal allows for classified information sharing that could benefit a US ally’s defence and streamlines the sale of certain classified technologies. The Philippines and the United States have signed a military intelligence-sharing deal, in a further deepening of security ties between the two defence treaty allies as they seek to counter a resurgent China….
The joint amphibious training is announced after three countries express concerns about ‘dangerous conduct’ by the Chinese military. Japan’s troops will participate in joint training with United States Marines and Australian forces in northern Australia next year, the defence ministers from the three countries have said, as they expressed concerns over the growing threat from…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping told US President Joe Biden that he’s ready to work with Donald Trump to improve the relationship between the world’s biggest economies. Speaking in their final meeting before Trump takes office, Xi told Biden that the US and China shouldn’t pursue decoupling and instead strive for peaceful existence over the long…
In the telephone call on Friday, Scholz exhorted Putin to “end” his war on Ukraine and to “withdraw troops.” The conversation lasted for about an hour and was the first direct exchange between the two leaders in nearly two years, German media reported. “The Federal Chancellor urged Russia to be prepared to negotiate with Ukraine with the aim…