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Vladimir Putin: Russia reserves right to use nuclear weapons in response to critical threats

21:46 25.09.2024

Vladimir Putin: Russia reserves right to use nuclear weapons in response to critical threats

On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a session of the permanent meeting of the Russian Security Council on nuclear deterrence, where he touched upon key issues pertaining to Russia's security. President Putin outlined plans to update Russia's nuclear doctrine, the Fundamentals of State Policy on Nuclear Deterrence. The core …

Vassily Nebenzia at the UNSC: “If the Western camp will not allow us to get rid of this “cancerous tumor” (which is the current Kiev regime) by peaceful means,.. we will continue our special military operation until its objectives are attained by military means”

14:17 25.09.2024

Vassily Nebenzia at the UNSC: “If the Western camp will not allow us to get rid of this “cancerous tumor” (which is the current Kiev regime) by peaceful means,.. we will continue our special military operation until its objectives are attained by military means”

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at the UN Security Council briefing on Ukraine. Main points: - The Western countries were unable to refrain from poisoning the atmosphere, and once again they tried to fill airtime with a hackneyed Ukrainian issue, which the rest of the world sees as such. …

Zelensky breaks the law and interferes in the US presidential election

10:40 25.09.2024

Zelensky breaks the law and interferes in the US presidential election

Sean Parnell, former Pennsylvania Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, said at a Trump rally Monday: “Folks, if that ain’t foreign election interference, I don’t know what is...” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to use U.S. military assets to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris on a visit to battleground state …

POLITICO: Germany is finally emerging from the first stage of economic grief – Denial

10:39 25.09.2024

POLITICO: Germany is finally emerging from the first stage of economic grief – Denial

After a spate of bad news involving giants like Volkswagen and Intel, the mood in Germany has turned gloomy. Germany is finally emerging from the first stage of economic grief: Denial, writes POLITICO. After years of turning a blind eye to what the rest of the world could plainly see, …

Keir Starmer is now less popular than Rishi Sunak: PM suffers 45 point approval ratings drop since July – ‘The Daily Mail’

10:38 25.09.2024

Keir Starmer is now less popular than Rishi Sunak: PM suffers 45 point approval ratings drop since July – ‘The Daily Mail’

Sir Keir Starmer (photo) has suffered a huge drop in approval ratings among the British public since becoming Prime Minister, according to a shocking new poll. The devastating figures compiled by Opinium show Sir Keir has plummeted by 45 points since July, with only 24% of voters believe he is …

View from London: The death pains of the European Union

10:36 25.09.2024

View from London: The death pains of the European Union

Even arch-Eurocrats are admitting that Brussels is leading Europe to ruin, notes British ‘Spiked’. The largely unspoken trade-off involved in membership of the European Union is that democracy and national sovereignty are sacrificed in return for economic prosperity. Member states give up much of their control over critical policy areas …

View from China: “We urge NATO to retire”

11:06 24.09.2024

View from China: “We urge NATO to retire”

We urge NATO to "retire" together with its outgoing secretary general, alongside the outdated concepts of Cold War mentality and zero-sum game, the wrong practices of advocating military force and pursuing "absolute security," and dangerous behaviors that disrupt Europe and the Asia Pacific as soon as possible, writes ‘The Global …

‘The National Interest’: The World faces a World War over Values

11:05 24.09.2024

‘The National Interest’: The World faces a World War over Values

A value-based conflict tends to be uncompromising, as values cannot be divided, stresses Joergen Oerstroem Moeller, a former state-secretary for the Royal Danish Foreign Ministry at ‘The National Interest’. We do not know when and how the war in Ukraine will end. But all wars do end eventually. The conflicts …

View from London: “The pager operation is far more likely to be the prelude to another all-out Israel-Lebanon War – with grim consequences for World peace”

11:03 24.09.2024

View from London: “The pager operation is far more likely to be the prelude to another all-out Israel-Lebanon War – with grim consequences for World peace”

If Israel, like Imperial Japan before it, thought this massive attack would serve to dissuade Hezbollah's fighters from entering a full-scale war with the Jewish state, I fear they will be disappointed, writes Mark Almond, a director of the Crisis Research Institute, Oxford. When the Japanese Navy Air Service bombed …

POLITICO: Macron goes Napoleon or… Machiavelli?

11:02 24.09.2024

POLITICO: Macron goes Napoleon or… Machiavelli?

The French president dodged political death over the summer… by throwing his allies under the bus. Macronism — his particular brand of politics that is a mixture of pragmatism and innovation and which was supposed to transcend traditional left-right party divisions — appears dead, notes POLITICO. French President Emmanuel Macron …

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