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100 billion fund: NATO’s “security” against Trump?

11:58 12.04.2024 Andrey Kadomtsev

100 billion fund: NATO’s “security” against Trump?

Wary of the threat of a radical change of political wind in Washington, coupled with an acute shortage of funds to support the Kyiv regime, Western politicians have to look for ever more exotic “schemes” to finance the supply of arms and economic assistance to Kyiv. The British edition of …

View from Washington: Ukraine has no more Air defenses

11:56 12.04.2024

View from Washington: Ukraine has no more Air defenses

By their own admission, Ukraine desperately needs air defenses. Russia dominates Ukraine's airspace, stresses Stephen Bryen, a former US Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. Most of the high end systems previously delivered from the US and Europe have either been destroyed or run out of interceptor missiles. NATO is searching …

General Flynn: “Ukraine is a hub for human trafficking. It’s a hub for, specifically, child trafficking”

11:54 12.04.2024

General Flynn: “Ukraine is a hub for human trafficking. It’s a hub for, specifically, child trafficking”

An unexpected explanation for Washington's desire to support the Kyiv regime with money and weapons was given by the former national security adviser to the 45th US President, General Michael Flynn. In his opinion, Ukraine has turned into a kind of center for laundering huge sums of money, in which …

David Cameron is not ‘Welcome’ in US Congress

11:52 12.04.2024

David Cameron is not ‘Welcome’ in US Congress

A senior Donald Trump ally snubbed, turning down a meeting him to explain why he is holding up $60billion-worth of US war aid for Ukraine. The Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives declined to meet the Foreign Secretary, despite the peer having a sit-down with Mr. Trump himself. …

Euro-luck: EU industrial production declines

11:46 12.04.2024

Euro-luck: EU industrial production declines

EU industrial production declines, continuing its downward trend, amidst falling inflation and historically low unemployment, figures The European Statistical Monitor (Edition: March 2024): EU retail trade rebounded in January 2024, while industrial production declined, following stable GDP in Q4 2023 (see Figure 1 and Figure 2). Additionally, production in services …

Ukrainian military using chemical weapons near Artemovsk

11:55 11.04.2024

Ukrainian military using chemical weapons near Artemovsk

On Tuesday, Russian security forces reported that the Ukrainian army had used chemical weapons, presumably white phosphorus, near the city of Artemovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). They provided Sputnik with a video showing a glass flask containing this poisonous substance. The use of chemical weapons was recorded in …

Boomerang effect, or who lurks behind Ukrainian terrorism

11:52 11.04.2024 Alexei Belov

Boomerang effect, or who lurks behind Ukrainian terrorism

Burisma Holdings and Hunter Biden are suspects On Tuesday, April 9, news agencies broke the news about Russian law enforcers having accused the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma Holdings of financing terrorist activities in Russia, in particular the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall, which claimed the lives of …

IAEA director General Rafael Grossi: “We came "quite close" to a nuclear accident”

11:51 11.04.2024

IAEA director General Rafael Grossi: “We came "quite close" to a nuclear accident”

The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power plant came "quite close" to a nuclear accident, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi said. According to the report, the IAEA believes that the nuclear power plant came "quite close" to a nuclear accident after the drone attack on Sunday. "Our objective here …

Bloomberg: The US and its allies face a $10 Trillion reckoning

11:50 11.04.2024

Bloomberg: The US and its allies face a $10 Trillion reckoning

Leaders are just starting to come to terms with the vast increase in defense spending required to counterbalance the militaries of Russia and China. A new era of global rearmament is gathering pace, and it will mean vast costs and some tough decisions for western governments already struggling with shaky …

FT: The Great American Transport Crisis

11:50 11.04.2024

FT: The Great American Transport Crisis

The US infrastructure hasn’t been updated in a significant way since the Eisenhower era (1952-1960), ‘The Financial Times’ notes. From the Baltimore bridge collapse (photo) to chaos at Boeing, what look like discrete problems are in fact part of a wider dysfunction. Transport in America is having a crisis moment. …

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