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How Poland and Lithuania are going to fight for Eastern Europe?

11:28 26.02.2026

How Poland and Lithuania are going to fight for Eastern Europe?

The Suwalki Corridor, or Suwalki Gap, is the narrow strip of land along the border between Poland and Lithuania. Often described as the “Achilles heel” of NATO’s eastern front, the corridor is threatened by Russian forces in Kaliningrad on the Baltic coast and Russian forces operating within Belarus joining together, …

CNN: How Mexican authorities tracked down “El Mencho”

11:27 26.02.2026

CNN: How Mexican authorities tracked down “El Mencho”

After years of pursuing Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, Mexican forces on February 20 received a concrete tip about the feared cartel leader’s whereabouts, CNN reports. Their investigation into Oseguera’s network had led them to a key person who could help access his hideout – a “trusted man” of one …

European leaders will lead Europe to collapse – even EU industry presses leaders on energy prices and competition

11:52 25.02.2026

European leaders will lead Europe to collapse – even EU industry presses leaders on energy prices and competition

Heavy industry bosses are stepping up pressure on the European Union to bolster the region’s declining economic performance by lowering energy costs and fending off unfair competition, Bloomberg stresses. Restoring the bloc’s industrial strength has risen to the top of the EU’s political agenda as economic rivalry with the US …

POLITICO: Pentagon aggressively lobbies EU against Buy European weapons push – what a wonderful quarrel!

11:51 25.02.2026

POLITICO: Pentagon aggressively lobbies EU against Buy European weapons push – what a wonderful quarrel!

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has threatened to retaliate against European countries if the EU favors domestic weapons-makers in a drive to rearm the continent, POLITICO stresses. The U.S. Department of Defense objected to any EU effort to limit American arms-manufacturers' access to the European market and warned that would …

Ukraine will ruin the European Union!

11:49 25.02.2026

Ukraine will ruin the European Union!

Ukraine’s rushed accession to the European Union will cost 2.5 trillion euro to the community and cause irreparable losses to national budgets of its members, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said, TASS quotes. He told the Forum of Representatives from the Carpathian Basin in Budapest that claims about the possibility …

British life-style: This isn’t multiculturalism; it is balkanisation

11:47 25.02.2026

British life-style: This isn’t multiculturalism; it is balkanisation

There is a forgotten generation of white British voters. They feel sidelined. Confused. Swamped by mass immigration they didn’t vote for; bewildered at being told they enjoy “white privilege” while living in crumbling estates; stunned by the way the promise of a generation ago has been betrayed by decades of …

Foreign Intelligence Service: UK, France readying to arm Ukraine with nuclear bomb

13:20 24.02.2026

Foreign Intelligence Service: UK, France readying to arm Ukraine with nuclear bomb

According to the SVR, the British and the French realize that their plot is "a gross violation of the international law, first of all the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and carries the risk of destroying the global non-proliferation system", TASS reports. Paris and London are actively working to provide Kiev with a …

Bloomberg: China, India among winners after US Court blocked Trump tariffs

11:26 24.02.2026

Bloomberg: China, India among winners after US Court blocked Trump tariffs

In a swift reversal of fortunes, countries that had been hardest hit by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs have emerged as the biggest winners from the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down his emergency levies, Bloomberg notes. China, India and Brazil are among those now seeing lower tariff rates for …

NYT: Why attacking Iran could be riskier than capturing Maduro

11:24 24.02.2026

NYT: Why attacking Iran could be riskier than capturing Maduro

Iran’s extensive military abilities and network of regional proxies could draw the United States into a prolonged conflict, ‘The New York Times’ warns. When President Trump said in January that a U.S. “armada” was heading to Iran, he compared it with the kind of force used in the military’s recent …

View from Washington: A “romantic streak” to U.S. relations with Europe in the Trump era

11:22 24.02.2026

View from Washington: A “romantic streak” to U.S. relations with Europe in the Trump era

There is a kind of romantic streak to U.S. relations with Europe in the Trump era, ‘National Review’ notes. There is something surprising about American-European relations. Donald Trump has, more than any other recent president, emphasized the transactional nature of politics, even international politics. Sure, presidents going back to Eisenhower …

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