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US-Venezuela: “Second Operation Noriega”

9:39 16.09.2025 Alexander Gusev

US-Venezuela: “Second Operation Noriega”

On September 9, the United States sent a ninth warship towards Venezuela under the pretext of combating drug cartels. According to some US officials close to the Donald Trump administration, the operation against Venezuela will become a "Second Operation Noriega." As a reminder, on December 24, 1989, during a US …

View from Israel: Israel is fighting a war it cannot win

9:37 16.09.2025

View from Israel: Israel is fighting a war it cannot win

Only a Path to a Palestinian State can stop calamity in Gaza — and the World must lead the way, Ami Ayalon, a former Commander of the Israeli navy, former Director of Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, stresses at ‘The Foreign Affairs’. Two events have reshaped the strategic …

WP: After Poland incursions, Ukrainians fear Europe will hold back air defenses

9:35 16.09.2025

WP: After Poland incursions, Ukrainians fear Europe will hold back air defenses

Urgent air defense appeals from Kyiv were already underway before drones breached Polish airspace Tuesday. A renewed Russian onslaught on infrastructure has highlighted dangerous weaknesses in Ukraine’s already limited defense systems, with missiles striking central Kyiv in recent weeks, including the seat of government, ‘The Washington Post’ stresses. Ukraine is …

NATO is de facto at war with Russia, this "doesn’t need any additional confirmation" — Kremlin

16:31 15.09.2025

NATO is de facto at war with Russia, this "doesn’t need any additional confirmation" — Kremlin

MOSCOW, September 15. /TASS/. NATO is de facto at war with Russia, Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, reacting to a recent statement by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski that NATO was not at war with Russia. "NATO is at war with Russia," Peskov said at a news briefing. …

View from Washington: Kaja Kallas' shocking lack of historical literacy

11:15 15.09.2025

View from Washington: Kaja Kallas' shocking lack of historical literacy

A major gaffe about Russia and China in WWII belies the Europeans' cartoonish mindset about the world's major powers, ‘The Responsible Statecraft’ writes. The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has consistently demonstrated a reductive and simplistic approach to geopolitics that betrays a serious lack of strategic depth and historical …

View from Delhi: The SCO summit in Tianjin was, to begin with, a message to the US about an altered balance of power in the western Pacific

11:13 15.09.2025

View from Delhi: The SCO summit in Tianjin was, to begin with, a message to the US about an altered balance of power in the western Pacific

The SCO summit in Tianjin, China has caught the attention of the West as no previous summit has, writes Kanval Sibal, a former Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, Ambassador to Turkey, Egypt, France and Russia. The West has, in general, paid more attention to BRICS as a forum …

FT: UK economy failed to grow – Stagnation was in line with analysts’ expectations

11:11 15.09.2025

FT: UK economy failed to grow – Stagnation was in line with analysts’ expectations

The UK economy stagnated in July, underlining the challenge facing the government ahead of a high-stakes November Budget. Friday’s figure from the Office for National Statistics was in line with economists’ expectations and followed a 0.4 per cent expansion in June. A slump in manufacturing in July offset increases in …

Trump says he will impose more sanctions on Russia if NATO does

11:06 15.09.2025

Trump says he will impose more sanctions on Russia if NATO does

President Trump on Saturday set conditions for imposing new sanctions on Russia, saying he would do so only if all NATO member nations did the same and also stopped buying Russian oil and imposed steep tariffs on China, ‘The New York Times’ writes. “I am ready to do major sanctions …

NI: What happened over Poland? – The question of cui bono is best answered as the Europeans, rather than the Russians

9:29 14.09.2025

NI: What happened over Poland? – The question of cui bono is best answered as the Europeans, rather than the Russians

By ballooning this incident with the Russian drones, NATO’s supporters in Europe and America believe they can force Trump to change course on Ukraine. He shouldn’t, ‘The National Interest’ writes. The same people who have spent the last five years doing everything in their power to get the United States …

Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption!

9:28 14.09.2025

Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption!

A new minister in Albania charged to handle public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favour. That is because Diella, as she is called, is an AI-generated bot, Reutesr reports. Prime Minister Edi Rama, who is about to begin his fourth term, said on Thursday …

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