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FT: Europe is selling its soul to Trump! It’s not pragmatism but self-harming opportunism

11:44 28.08.2025

FT: Europe is selling its soul to Trump! It’s not pragmatism but self-harming opportunism

A “humiliation”, “economic surrender” and rhetoric that “appears to have been stolen from the adult entertainment industry”. These are just a small selection of Europeans’ reactions to how their leaders have kowtowed to Donald Trump — first for accepting the US president’s demand that Nato countries spend 5 per cent …

View from China: Russia’s nuclear-powered cruise missile draws renewed media attention

11:43 28.08.2025

View from China: Russia’s nuclear-powered cruise missile draws renewed media attention

Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile has drawn renewed attention after multiple media reports speculated that Russia might recently conduct new tests, Chinese ‘The Global Times’ writes. US media outlet Newsweek reported that a US Air Force WC-135R aircraft designed to track nuclear testing in the atmosphere flew close to Russia's …

View from Delhi: The Russia-India-China alliance, floated in the 1990s as a counterweight to the US, is being revived today

11:42 28.08.2025

View from Delhi: The Russia-India-China alliance, floated in the 1990s as a counterweight to the US, is being revived today

The Russia-India-China alliance, initially conceived as a counterweight to the US, is being revived amidst Trump's trade war, Indian ‘The Economic Times’ stresses. The Russia-India-China alliance, floated in the 1990s as a counterweight to the US, is being revived today as a way for the three countries to ride out …

British life-style: Migrant protests descend into anarchy

11:38 28.08.2025

British life-style: Migrant protests descend into anarchy

Migrant protests descended into anarchy as at least 15 people were arrested at demonstrations taking place across the country over asylum seeker hotels, ‘The Daily Mail’ reports. Today more than 30 protests under the Abolish Asylum System slogan were held in towns and cities including Bristol, Exeter, Tamworth, Cannock, Nuneaton, …

False arguments against Budapest

12:35 27.08.2025 Gyorgy Varga

False arguments against Budapest

The collective West never tires of recalling the 1994 Budapest Memorandum (1994) as a failed security assurance and an example of Russia's aggressive foreign policy and disregard for international guarantees, provided to Ukraine. In his August 20 post on the "X" platform, Polish Prime Minister Tusk spoke out against holding …

View from Washington: “Lasting peace will require grappling with the history of Ukraine’s borders and adjusting them to reflect solid realities”

12:00 27.08.2025

View from Washington: “Lasting peace will require grappling with the history of Ukraine’s borders and adjusting them to reflect solid realities”

As it now stands, Ukraine can have political independence or territorial integrity, but it cannot have both. That was true in 2014, it was true in 2022, and it is true today, writes John Daniel Davidson, a senior editor at ‘The Federalist’. It’s not parroting Russian propaganda to say that …

Reuters: 'Powerful optics' – Xi to welcome Putin, Modi in regional security forum of solidarity in China

11:59 27.08.2025

Reuters: 'Powerful optics' – Xi to welcome Putin, Modi in regional security forum of solidarity in China

President Xi Jinping will gather more than 20 world leaders at a regional security forum in China next week in a powerful show of Global South solidarity in the age of Donald Trump while also helping sanctions-hit Russia pull off another diplomatic coup, Reuters writes. Aside from Russian President Vladimir …

POLITICO: Foreign diplomats are worried about the rule of Law in Trump’s America – It could complicate law enforcement across the Globe, they say

11:58 27.08.2025

POLITICO: Foreign diplomats are worried about the rule of Law in Trump’s America – It could complicate law enforcement across the Globe, they say

The mood among the European diplomatic set appears to be one of heightened vigilance and of low-level — but persistent — anxiety about where things are headed in the U.S. legal system in Trump’s second term and beyond, writes POLITICO. Donald Trump’s second term in office has been marked by …

NYT: The question is – whether to send German soldiers to Ukraine?

11:57 27.08.2025

NYT: The question is – whether to send German soldiers to Ukraine?

A long road remains for any peace deal in Ukraine, despite weeks of furious diplomacy and optimistic predictions from President Trump. But in Germany, political leaders are already debating a crucial detail for any final agreement — whether the German Army will send troops, ‘The New York Times’ writes. The …

Trump pushes to rename Department of Defense to the ‘Department of War’

14:38 26.08.2025

Trump pushes to rename Department of Defense to the ‘Department of War’

President Donald Trump on Monday said he wants to rename the Department of Defense the “Department of War,” News Nation Now reports. “It used to be called the Department of War. It had a stronger sound… we are defenders,” Trump said from the Oval Office, surrounded by members of his …

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