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Two views on the US-China trade war

11:57 15.04.2025

Two views on the US-China trade war

What Trump wants above all is to display dominance and extract submission. A better explanation is that Trump is motivated mainly by a desire to accumulate and exercise power, and tariffs are the best instrument of that power, stresses ‘The Financial Times’. Trump climbed down from his most extreme reciprocal …

Europe talks about rearmament, but it seems that European leaders just want more money

11:55 15.04.2025

Europe talks about rearmament, but it seems that European leaders just want more money

It’s hard to imagine that a rearming would be politically palatable given that many European governments are highly in debt, but they just want more money, notes ‘The Responsible Statecraft’. Amid calls for Europe to rearm, competing ideas are circulating around how to ensure European nations can take on Russia …

Netherlands in Panic – “Russia Intends to Attack the Baltics!” Soldiers Take to the Streets

11:54 15.04.2025

Netherlands in Panic – “Russia Intends to Attack the Baltics!” Soldiers Take to the Streets

After a recent meeting of military leaders from Britain, the Netherlands, the Baltics, Poland and Scandinavia, the Dutch were the first to get excited. London's latest anti-Russian provocation had its effect on the Dutch, who have never been particularly belligerent. The Dutch military is accelerating efforts to ensure readiness for …

Sergey Lavrov: “We have facts about who was inside the building that was hit in Sumy. There was another get-together of Ukrainian military commanders with their Western colleagues who were there under the guise of mercenaries, or someone else”

21:28 14.04.2025

Sergey Lavrov: “We have facts about who was inside the building that was hit in Sumy. There was another get-together of Ukrainian military commanders with their Western colleagues who were there under the guise of mercenaries, or someone else”

Excerpt from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with ‘Kommersant’ newspaper. Moscow, April 14, 2025 Question: You are saying the new US administration is willing to discuss negotiated settlement in Ukraine in addition to bilateral issues. At a recent UN meeting on Ukraine convened in the wake of the strike on …

View from Delhi: possible settlement of the Iranian nuclear issue takes on mutually agreeable contours as the talks proceed

11:38 14.04.2025

View from Delhi: possible settlement of the Iranian nuclear issue takes on mutually agreeable contours as the talks proceed

The US President Donald Trump sought direct talks and claimed that Iranians conveyed through back channel that they had no objection to it. Furthermore, Trump disclosed that indirect talks already started. While maintaining publicly that the talks will be ‘indirect’, Iranians didn’t call out Trump, notes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador …

Emmanuel Todd: “It is absolutely obvious that the Collective West has suffered a defeat and is now disintegrating, but it is completely unclear in what form this disintegration will occur”

11:36 14.04.2025

Emmanuel Todd: “It is absolutely obvious that the Collective West has suffered a defeat and is now disintegrating, but it is completely unclear in what form this disintegration will occur”

The prominent French philosopher and analyst, author of the sensational book "The Defeat of the West" ("l'Occident. La défaite") Emmanuel Todd recently spoke at a conference at CES – Institut Catholique de Vendée, France, expressing his views on the developing world situation. He paid special attention to the relations between …

‘The Times’: The untold story of British military chiefs’ crucial role in Ukraine

11:33 14.04.2025

‘The Times’: The untold story of British military chiefs’ crucial role in Ukraine

Almost simultaneously, journalistic investigations appeared in the US and Britain covering the involment of these countries into the war in Ukraine. First, there was a publication in the ‘New York Times’, and then there was a publication in London’s ‘The Times’. Both newspapers admitted that for their countries, the war …

Israel: IDF 8200 intelligence soldiers call on gov't to stop fighting, bring back hostages

11:31 14.04.2025

Israel: IDF 8200 intelligence soldiers call on gov't to stop fighting, bring back hostages

Soldiers in the IDF’s Intelligence unit 8200 wrote a joint letter calling on the government to release the hostages, even if it means stopping the fighting in Gaza, ‘The Jerusalem Post’ reported. Hundreds of reservist officers, active-duty soldiers, and retired officers signed the letter and, according to KAN, the organizers …

U.S. and Ukraine talks on contentious minerals deal: “The negotiating environment is very antagonistic”

11:13 13.04.2025

U.S. and Ukraine talks on contentious minerals deal: “The negotiating environment is very antagonistic”

A Ukrainian delegation was in Washington on Friday for a new round of talks about a deal that would give the United States a major stake in Ukraine’s natural resources, writes ‘The New York Times’. The new proposal, reviewed by ‘The New York Times’, reverts to Mr. Trump’s initial demand …

British life-style: The health care system is falling into disrepair. Hospitals in England could shed 100,000 jobs in response to cost-cutting orders

11:10 13.04.2025

British life-style: The health care system is falling into disrepair. Hospitals in England could shed 100,000 jobs in response to cost-cutting orders

Hospitals in England could axe more than 100,000 jobs as a result of the huge reorganisation and brutal cost-cutting ordered by Wes Streeting and the NHS’s new boss, ‘The Guardian’ reports. The scale of looming job losses is so large that NHS leaders have urged the Treasury to cover the …

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