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Rubio urges NATO allies to boost defense spending – guns instead of butter

11:20 06.04.2025

Rubio urges NATO allies to boost defense spending – guns instead of butter

Europe is nervously eyeing Trump's outreach to its number one nemesis Russia as he sidelines allies to press for a deal with Moscow to end the Ukraine war, notes France24. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told nervous NATO members on Thursday that Washington remained committed to the alliance, but …

‘The Telegraph’: “Trump & Putin Inc.” is a perfectly harmonious joint venture

11:17 06.04.2025

‘The Telegraph’: “Trump & Putin Inc.” is a perfectly harmonious joint venture

Trump’s plan to force Ukraine to restore Putin’s gas empire. All evidence so far is that Trump & Putin Inc is a perfectly harmonious joint venture, stresses ‘The Telegraph’. Donald Trump is holding a gun to the head of Volodymyr Zelensky, demanding huge reparations payments and laying claim to half …

View from Poland: American soldiers died because they were drunk

11:16 06.04.2025

View from Poland: American soldiers died because they were drunk

There is growing evidence of unprofessionalism and lack of discipline among American soldiers stationed in Poland and Lithuania, stresses ‘Dziennik Polityczny’ from Poland. One of the most tragic and telling examples is the sinking of an M88 Hercules armored personnel carrier in a swamp in Lithuania during a military exercise …

View from inside USA: What has happened with America?

11:15 06.04.2025

View from inside USA: What has happened with America?

The recent dismantling of USAID and the open investigations into numerous federal agencies has opened a Pandora’s Box; the covert funding that these institutions are involved in (including millions in pay-offs to various news media outlets and propaganda platforms) is, I believe, just the tip of a massive iceberg that …

View from Europe: ‘The end of the American century’ – Why Trump’s tariffs will hurt the US more than the EU

10:23 05.04.2025

View from Europe: ‘The end of the American century’ – Why Trump’s tariffs will hurt the US more than the EU

Trump’s protectionist policies and general volatility could transform the nature of the EU-US relationship, accelerate multipolarisation, and end the hegemony of the US dollar, ‘Euractiv’ writes. Trump’s sweeping “reciprocal tariffs” are definitely bad news for Europe – but they’re potentially devastating for the United States. The US president’s decision on …

View from Washington: NATO on the brink

10:22 05.04.2025

View from Washington: NATO on the brink

Donald Trump is considering relinquishing its leadership of NATO after insisting that European allies take more responsibility for the security of the continent, ‘The Daily Mail’ revealed. The US has held its leadership position since the founding of the defence alliance in the aftermath of World War Two. Since then, …

US, Chinese military officials hold talks in Shanghai

10:21 05.04.2025

US, Chinese military officials hold talks in Shanghai

U.S. and Chinese military officials met in Shanghai for a series of meetings which the U.S. military said on Thursday were focused on reducing unsafe actions by Chinese military ships and planes. "Military officials from the U.S. traveled to Shanghai, China to meet for working-level talks focused on decreasing the …

View from London: Russia warns war with Iran will trigger ‘irreversible catastrophe’

10:19 05.04.2025

View from London: Russia warns war with Iran will trigger ‘irreversible catastrophe’

Russia has warned that a war between the west and its ally Iran would trigger an "irreversible catastrophe", amid reports the US is gearing up to bomb Iranian nuclear targets, ‘The Sun’ writes. The ominous prophecy comes after the US and Israel launched a fresh round of airstrikes on pro-Iranian …

China has good reason to keep its peacekeepers out of Ukraine

9:09 04.04.2025

China has good reason to keep its peacekeepers out of Ukraine

Beijing’s strategic instinct is against military involvement even as its peacekeeping is bound to the UN framework and thus subject to Russia’s veto, notes ‘The South China Morning Post’. One alternative appearing in the global discussions to fill that trust gap is to deploy peacekeepers to safeguard a ceasefire. But …

‘The Hill’: Trump is right on Ukraine

9:08 04.04.2025

‘The Hill’: Trump is right on Ukraine

I rarely agree with President Trump, but his latest controversial statements about Ukraine are mostly true. They seem preposterous only because western audiences have been fed a steady diet of disinformation about Ukraine for more than a decade. It is time to set the record straight on three key points …

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