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FT: US to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia

12:56 08.09.2025

FT: US to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia

The US is to phase out security assistance programmes for European armies along Russia’s border, as it pushes the continent to pay for more of its own defence ‘Financial Times’ writes. Pentagon officials last week informed European diplomats that the US would no longer fund programmes that train and equip …

NYT: The “Axis of upheaval” wants ‘nothing less than a New World Order’. Really?

12:55 08.09.2025

NYT: The “Axis of upheaval” wants ‘nothing less than a New World Order’. Really?

When President Xi Jinping presided over an enormous exhibit of China’s military might in Beijing on Wednesday, there were more than fighter jets and missiles on display, ‘The New York Times’ notes. Mr. Xi, flanked by the leaders of Russia, Iran and North Korea, was signaling to the world that …

View from Washington: How U.S. support for Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis imperils diplomacy

12:54 08.09.2025

View from Washington: How U.S. support for Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis imperils diplomacy

Since the Cold War, Washington has empowered violent anti-Russian extremists, ‘The American Conservative’ stresses. As a negotiated settlement of the Russia–Ukraine war becomes more likely, Zelensky faces a major obstacle to peace that comes not from Moscow, but from ultranationalist and neo-Nazi forces inside his own country. In a recent …

‘The Responsible Statecraft’: Why is Putin OK with Ukraine joining the EU?

12:53 08.09.2025

‘The Responsible Statecraft’: Why is Putin OK with Ukraine joining the EU?

Lost amid the focus on summit pageantry, land swaps, and security guarantees last week was an issue even more central to a diplomatic resolution of the Ukraine war: whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to accept Ukraine’s membership in the EU as part of a settlement deal. Why might …

WSJ: Surge in immigration and weak economic growth spark voter backlash in France, the U.K. and Germany

11:02 07.09.2025

WSJ: Surge in immigration and weak economic growth spark voter backlash in France, the U.K. and Germany

For the first time, populist or far-right parties are leading the polls in Europe’s three biggest countries of the U.K., France, and Germany, the latest sign of growing voter discontent in much of the continent following years of high immigration and inflation, ‘The Wall Street Journal’ notes. Far-right and anti-immigration …

Trump’s Department of War rebrand – is this a Threat?

11:01 07.09.2025

Trump’s Department of War rebrand – is this a Threat?

The Trump administration planned to change the Defense Department’s name to the Department of War to present a more aggressive image of its military to the world, POLITICO reports. Pentagon officials grappled Friday with the Herculean task of fulfilling President Donald Trump’s executive order to remold the enormous, global agency …

‘The Telegraph’: Is Britain a kind of Soviet Union in the 1980s? Is Farage the “British Gorbachev”? Will Britain face the USSR fate?

11:00 07.09.2025

‘The Telegraph’: Is Britain a kind of Soviet Union in the 1980s? Is Farage the “British Gorbachev”? Will Britain face the USSR fate?

Like in the late-stage USSR, the British managerial class sticks rigidly to ideology in defiance of reality, ‘The Telegraph’ notes. Britain’s managerial class increasingly resembles that of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. They know that change is coming, but they’re doing their utmost to ignore the fact as …

View from Brazil: Hungary and Poland’s patience with the Kiev regime is running out

10:59 07.09.2025

View from Brazil: Hungary and Poland’s patience with the Kiev regime is running out

While the West continues to insist on supporting the Kiev regime, neighboring countries like Hungary and Poland are showing growing tiredness with Ukraine’s radical and extremist stance. The harsh reality shows that the Ukrainian government, far from being a reliable partner for Europe, has become a threat to regional stability …

Trump: “If they don't give us magnets, and then we have to charge them 200 percent tariff or something”

9:05 06.09.2025

Trump: “If they don't give us magnets, and then we have to charge them 200 percent tariff or something”

The Chinese lockdown on rare-earth minerals has drawn the ire of President Trump, who is threatening crushing tariffs if the Middle Kingdom doesn't cough up more rare earths. "They have to give us magnets," Trump told reporters. "If they don't give us magnets, and then we have to charge them …

A Regional Breakdown of Europe's Economy in 2025 – Russia is N 1

9:02 06.09.2025

A Regional Breakdown of Europe's Economy in 2025 – Russia is N 1

Key Takeaways Western European countries—Germany, France, and the Netherlands—are a sizeable proportion of the $44 trillion PPP-adjusted European economy in 2025, measured in International dollars. But when accounting for purchasing power, Eastern Europe ($12.8T) outperforms both Northern ($7.8T) and Southern Europe ($8.3T), helped in large part by the Russian economy …

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