In 2007, President Vladimir Putin stood before the Munich Security Conference and stated clearly that Russia considers itself at war with the West. This speech, often dismissed at the time as mere rhetoric, now reads as a manifesto for the Kremlin’s imperialist and antagonistic foreign policy. Today, Russia wages a brutal war of aggression in…
Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s allies in Hungary and Slovakia are increasingly facing backlash for their pro-Moscow stance. Newsweek contacted the foreign ministries of Slovakia and Hungary for comment by email on Thursday. Why It Matters Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has built strong economic and political ties with Moscow and has often spoken of his…
What’s New NATO’s military capabilities face significant risks from China’s near-total dominance in seven critical materials essential to defense technologies. Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Foreign Ministry and U.S. Department of Defense by email with a request for comment. Why It Matters Earlier this month, NATO‘s 32-member defense grouping published a report identifying “12…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised the “balanced” Ukraine peace drive led by China, Brazil and South Africa, describing it “a genuine attempt to find a solution”. “We view this as a balanced attempt without imposing anything on either Ukraine or Russia,” Putin said, according to state-owned news agency Tass. The three countries formally established…
Shocking! Lawyer rams Mercedes car into Kachori shop in Delhi, Six injured In a shocking incident, six people were injured after a lawyer rammed his speeding Mercedes car into a Kachori shop in the national capital. The incident took place at Fateh Kachori in Civil Lines area. The police have taken the lawyer into custody…
French President Emmanuel Macron is planning to visit China in the new year, as speculation swirls about Beijing’s potential role in ending the Ukraine war. According to several sources familiar with the matter, Macron’s trusted diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonne travelled this week to Beijing with a team of aides to lay the groundwork for a…
This is Russia’s imperialist thinking laid bare: a belief in greatness that demands sacrifice, a messianic purpose untethered from reason and a chilling comfort with violence. No war crime is too heinous, no bomb too big for a system that knows nothing but oppression and subjugation. Many in Russia are even bizarrely convinced they’re liberating Ukraine…
Sabotage, hacking and terrorist-type attacks in the U.S. and Europe are escalating, Western security officials say. Politicians and intelligence agencies finger Russia, China, Iran and the West’s other adversaries for most of the incidents, but attributing blame is often difficult. Responding can be even harder. Rutte and national leaders in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization…
A geopolitical firestorm is erupting within the European Union and Nato ranks, and Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok is caught in the middle. On Friday, Romania’s constitutional court dramatically annulled the results of its first round presidential election held last month, after intelligence services warned of “aggressive hybrid action” by Russia to influence the vote….
For three days earlier this year, defence personnel from more than 20 Nato and Indo-Pacific countries descended on the South Korean capital to work out what a regional cyberwar might look like. In the APEX war gaming, critical infrastructure of multiple allies was attacked and participants had to share and verify information to come up…