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‘The Nation’: The perils of wider war in Eastern Europe

9:16 13.06.2024

‘The Nation’: The perils of wider war in Eastern Europe

Violence continues to haunt Eastern Europe. the attempted assassination of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on May 15 inevitably conjures up the memory of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo 110 years earlier, which led to the First World War. It is, tragically, not an exaggeration to say …

Macron says France working to ‘finalize’ plan to send troops to Ukraine

9:14 13.06.2024

Macron says France working to ‘finalize’ plan to send troops to Ukraine

French President Emmanuel Macron said France was working to “finalize a coalition” of NATO countries that are willing to send troops to Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, a step that would mark a huge escalation in the proxy war. During a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris, …

HSBC acquires a Citi’s bank business in Chinese mainland

9:13 13.06.2024

HSBC acquires a Citi’s bank business in Chinese mainland

HSBC said on Tuesday that it has completed acquisition of Citi's retail wealth management business in the Chinese mainland, as the London-based bank is expanding its operations in China's wealth management market, showcasing confidence in the market's growth potential. The acquired assets and deposits, as well as the associated customers …

Saudi Arabia's petro-dollar exit: A global finance paradigm shift

9:09 13.06.2024

Saudi Arabia's petro-dollar exit: A global finance paradigm shift

The financial world is bracing for a significant upheaval following Saudi Arabia's decision not to renew its 50-year petro-dollar deal with the United States, which expired on Sunday, 9 June, 2024. The lapsed security agreement - signed by the United States and Saudi Arabia on 8 June 1974 - establishes …

Strategies Race Between Russia and the West: An Adaptability Test?

16:06 12.06.2024 Alexander Kramarenko

Strategies Race Between Russia and the West: An Adaptability Test?

There are no paragraphs and no laws!But no light came from anywhere.Andrey Bely [T]hat’s the main trouble with them. They never understand jokes. They will never understand jokes. Their souls aredry – flat and dry…Fyodor Dostoevsky THERE is no longer any doubt that the Western blitzkrieg in Ukraine has failed …

View from Europe: “Do we want to risk the very existence of Humanity, clearly not ‘for the sake of Ukraine’?”

9:41 12.06.2024

View from Europe: “Do we want to risk the very existence of Humanity, clearly not ‘for the sake of Ukraine’?”

Napoleon campaigned in Russia and was crushed. The Western powers heavily intervened in Russia against the Bolsheviks (1918-21), only to face humiliation and see their own troops revolt. Hitler’s Germany attacked Russia and was destroyed. Their glory is apparently envied now by Biden, Scholz, Macron, Stoltenberg, von der Leyen etc., …

Europe and USA are in danger: Drug traffickers attack with NATO weapons meant for… Ukraine

9:40 12.06.2024

Europe and USA are in danger: Drug traffickers attack with NATO weapons meant for… Ukraine

Narcotic gangs in southern Spain use NATO assault rifles, which security forces fear were weapons destined for Kyiv but were diverted to the international black market. Specialists estimate that there are up to 3.5 million unregistered weapons which were meant for Kyiv, and the lack of controls is having a …

Deutsche Börse chief: The EU’s largest economy risked becoming a “developing country”

9:38 12.06.2024

Deutsche Börse chief: The EU’s largest economy risked becoming a “developing country”

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition has reacted with outrage to a rant from Germany’s stock exchange chief that savaged the government’s policies and said the EU’s largest economy risked becoming a “developing country”. The speech by Deutsche Börse chief executive Theodor Weimer (photo), which has gone viral on social media, reflects …

View from Washington: “The Russian approach to warfare emerges as a progressive application of military art that considers the totality of the spectrum of warfare”

9:37 12.06.2024

View from Washington: “The Russian approach to warfare emerges as a progressive application of military art that considers the totality of the spectrum of warfare”

As Russia’s military operation in Ukraine enters its 28th month, the conflict can be said to have gone through several distinct phases, all but one (the opening gambit) of which prioritized attritional warfare as the principal guiding military philosophy. For Western military observers, schooled as we are on what we …

Sergey Lavrov: “BRICS is one such association where the principles of equal cooperation – mutual respect, openness, pragmatism, solidarity, continuity and, of course, consensus – have been implemented in real life, not in words”

11:40 11.06.2024

Sergey Lavrov: “BRICS is one such association where the principles of equal cooperation – mutual respect, openness, pragmatism, solidarity, continuity and, of course, consensus – have been implemented in real life, not in words”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks during a BRICS Ministerial Council meeting, Nizhny Novgorod, June 10, 2024: “Colleagues, friends, I would like to open this meeting with observing a moment of silence in memory of the untimely demise of President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi and our colleague Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and to …

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