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View from Washington: Will Americans stop trying to ‘Run the World’?

11:51 02.08.2024

View from Washington: Will Americans stop trying to ‘Run the World’?

When President Joe Biden was attempting to disguise his encroaching dementia, he told journalist George Stephanopoulos: “You know, not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world.” No wonder everything everywhere is such a mess. War is raging in Europe and the Middle East. Multiple conflicts threaten Asia. Heckuva …

India-China warming pops US pipe dream

11:49 02.08.2024

India-China warming pops US pipe dream

US envisions India as democratic counterweight to China but Asian powers are moving toward more economic cooperation and less strategic conflict, writes ‘The Asia Times’. India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 25 endorsed her economic advisor’s proposal to open the country to direct investment from China, effectively frozen since …

Germany’s failure to lead the EU is becoming a problem

11:49 02.08.2024

Germany’s failure to lead the EU is becoming a problem

In the mid-2010s, as the European Union lurched punch-drunk from one crisis to the next, there was one constant. Germany, and in particular Angela Merkel, its chancellor, was the star around which the rest of Europe orbited. All had a point. Yet none had any way of working around Germany, …

Vance tells donors Harris change was a ‘sucker punch,’ at odds with campaign

11:47 02.08.2024

Vance tells donors Harris change was a ‘sucker punch,’ at odds with campaign

The Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), privately told donors that running against Vice President Harris instead of President Biden made the race more challenging — an admission at odds with the Donald Trump campaign’s public projections of confidence, ‘The Washington Post’ informs. “All of us were hit with …

Maduro wins Venezuelan Presidential election!

14:08 01.08.2024

Maduro wins Venezuelan Presidential election!

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has won a third term with 51% of the vote, the country’s electoral authority said just after midnight on Monday, despite multiple exit polls which pointed to an opposition ‘win’. The national electoral authority said just after midnight that Maduro had won a third term with …

Paris Olympics ceremony 'Last Supper' parody sparks international scandal

14:06 01.08.2024

Paris Olympics ceremony 'Last Supper' parody sparks international scandal

What happened at the opening of the Olympics in Paris caused a negative reaction in many countries of the world, as well as among Christians. The Paris Olympics exhibition was just another pass at diluting and desacralizing Christianity to make it fit within the progressively progressive mindset, the international press …

Arab Americans feel betrayed by Biden

14:05 01.08.2024

Arab Americans feel betrayed by Biden

Among Muslim Americans and Arab Americans, anger over President Biden’s approach to the Israel-Gaza war and the Middle East in general has been building for months, creating a possible threat to his prospects in November. In a New York Times-Siena College poll released last week, Donald Trump led Biden 57-25 …

Iran vows revenge as it accuses Israel of killing of Hamas political leader

14:03 01.08.2024

Iran vows revenge as it accuses Israel of killing of Hamas political leader

Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran has dramatically raised risk of escalation of hostilities, writes ‘The Financial Times’. Iran has accused Israel of assassinating Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in a strike in Tehran and vowed to avenge his death as the attack dramatically raised the risk of a further …

Panic in Washington D.C.: The American military is no longer “prepared” to fight in a Major War

11:31 31.07.2024

Panic in Washington D.C.: The American military is no longer “prepared” to fight in a Major War

The United States risks losing in the event of multiple conflicts with adversaries due to a lack of capabilities and capacity, the congressionally established Commission on the National Defense Strategy said in a report released Monday, Sputnik informs. The commission, which received administrative and analytic support from the RAND Corporation …

View from Lebanon: The Russian-Ukrainian conflict has created a new phenomenon – the concept of “reverse attrition”

11:27 31.07.2024

View from Lebanon: The Russian-Ukrainian conflict has created a new phenomenon – the concept of “reverse attrition”

An international conflict is one of the tools used by states in their foreign policy to achieve geopolitical interests in the international arena. Confrontational or non-confrontational methods are used to manage it. As in the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine, on the one hand, and Western countries led by …

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