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FP: The Westless – collapse of the West is too sensationalist

11:24 28.08.2024

FP: The Westless – collapse of the West is too sensationalist

We are fast passing the peak era of global Western power and influence. The “collapse of the West” is too sensationalist. But there is a transition underway from an era of unbridled Western global influence to one of contested Western influence, ‘Foreign Policy’ stresses. New centers of power are emerging …

IAEA chief Grossi confirms signs left by Ukrainian drone attacks on Kursk NPP in Russia

11:21 28.08.2024

IAEA chief Grossi confirms signs left by Ukrainian drone attacks on Kursk NPP in Russia

The visit of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi is due to the proximity of hostilities and the danger of a nuclear incident. Rafael Grossi announced to journalists on Tuesday that during his inspection of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Russia he personally saw traces …

Sergey Lavrov: Ukraine's demands to the West to allow the use of Storm Shadow missiles on Moscow and St. Petersburg are blackmail and “playing with fire”

16:04 27.08.2024

Sergey Lavrov: Ukraine's demands to the West to allow the use of Storm Shadow missiles on Moscow and St. Petersburg are blackmail and “playing with fire”

"Americans definitely associate these conversations about the third world war as something that, God forbid, if it is realized, could affect only Europe... And in this situation, it is probably very important to understand that we have our own doctrine, including the doctrine of the use of nuclear weapons, which, …

American and European rulers are panicking and trying out all sorts of irrational options

11:41 27.08.2024

American and European rulers are panicking and trying out all sorts of irrational options

"Whatever remains of the West will be an increasingly artificial and even insane attempt to stop the wheel of history."Oswald Spengler We are approaching a turning point in History, writes a Turkish newspaper ‘Sabah’. Against the backdrop of the struggle between the West and the rising Asia-Pacific region on the …

Democratic progress? Ukrainian Parliament votes to ban Orthodox Church in Ukraine

11:40 27.08.2024

Democratic progress? Ukrainian Parliament votes to ban Orthodox Church in Ukraine

Ukraine’s Parliament has created the legal tools for a governmental ban on any religious group that it deems to be too closely tied to Russia by voting for a bill that explicitly bans the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, writes ‘The American Greatness’. However, the ban also directly affects the …

De-dollarization: China’s Yuan hits internationalisation landmark with record share of global payments

11:39 27.08.2024

De-dollarization: China’s Yuan hits internationalisation landmark with record share of global payments

The Chinese yuan’s share in global payments hit a record high in July, a milestone in Beijing’s efforts to fend off the hegemony of the US dollar and increase its say in the international monetary system, ‘South China Morning Post’ informs. The yuan kept its fourth-place spot in the ranking …

View from Middle East: How the US Navy started to tear itself apart between two Oceans

11:38 27.08.2024

View from Middle East: How the US Navy started to tear itself apart between two Oceans

Will America slide into a brutal war it does not want? – Al Jazeera puts a question. Strategically, the concentration of American forces in the Middle East risks leaving the US Navy without aircraft carriers in the Western Pacific, in a region where the largest US adversary, China, is located. …

Rostec chief: Challenger, Leopard tanks tarnished their reputation in Ukraine operation

11:49 26.08.2024

Rostec chief: Challenger, Leopard tanks tarnished their reputation in Ukraine operation

Sergey Chemezov highlighted the Russian T-90M Proryv tank which "is a head above both the British and American tanks, and foreign customers understand this well". The British Challenger and German Leopard tanks have tarnished their reputation in the special military operation area in Ukraine and foreign customers see that the …

View from Washington: Another Chernobyl in the making? The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant under Ukrainian attack

11:48 26.08.2024

View from Washington: Another Chernobyl in the making? The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant under Ukrainian attack

Ukraine has tried to attack the Kursk nuclear power plant reinforcing a theory that the Kursk offensive was aimed at creating significant havoc by either capturing or wrecking the Kursk NPP. The danger of a well aimed drone or missile at a nuclear facility raises the specter of another Chernobyl, …

Confession: A senior Whitehall source said “there won't be shying away from the idea of British weapons being used in Russia”

11:44 26.08.2024

Confession: A senior Whitehall source said “there won't be shying away from the idea of British weapons being used in Russia”

The determination of Washington's self-appointed "junior partner" to escalate the proxy conflict into all-out hot war between Russia and the West has only intensified under Starmer's new Labour government. It is Britain behind the scenes of the Kyiv regime's attack on the Kursk region. Confession of Sott.Net: a "senior Whitehall …

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