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Dutch government official admits COVID Pandemic was a ‘military operation’: ‘The Ministry of health obeys NATO’

11:23 20.11.2024

Dutch government official admits COVID Pandemic was a ‘military operation’: ‘The Ministry of health obeys NATO’

A top Dutch government official has admitted that the Covid was a “military operation” and revealed that her nation was taking orders from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) during the pandemic, Slay News informs. Dutch Health Minister Fleur Agema has revealed that the “military operation” was led by NATO …

Trump and a Ukrainian case

11:20 20.11.2024

Trump and a Ukrainian case

Is U.S. President-elect Donald Trump the accomplished dealmaker he boasts to be, with the Russia-Ukraine war about to come to a peaceful end? We should take him on his word when he says he’s not keen on starting any new wars — but that’s not at all the same as …

Vladimir Putin signs updated Russian Nuclear Doctrine

12:40 19.11.2024

Vladimir Putin signs updated Russian Nuclear Doctrine

Vladimir Putin signed an updated version of Russian nuclear doctrine – “Foundations of the State Policy of the Russian Federation in the Area of Nuclear Deterrence”, Sputnik reports. Earlier Russian officials explained that the update of the Russian nuclear doctrine was necessary due to heightened tensions around Russian borders and …

POLITICO: Trump may have a way out of NATO

12:25 19.11.2024

POLITICO: Trump may have a way out of NATO

The guardrail against the next USA president leaving the NATO alliance is shakier than you think, notes POLITICO. In the wake of NATO-skeptic President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, backers of the alliance are taking comfort in a year-old U.S. law that says he can’t withdraw unless Congress approves. But Trump may …

View from USA: Globalisation – why it went into retreat

12:24 19.11.2024

View from USA: Globalisation – why it went into retreat

In a speech in Washington, D.C. in 2019, ex-British prime minister Tony Blair declared that ‘globalisation is a force of nature, not a policy; it is a fact.’ He echoed President Bill Clinton back in 2000: ‘Yet globalisation is not something we can hold off or turn off. It is …

FA: Israel is underestimating the Allies of the Axis of Resilience

12:23 19.11.2024

FA: Israel is underestimating the Allies of the Axis of Resilience

In response to Hamas’s October 7 attack last year, the Israeli government launched a regional war meant to reshape the Middle East. Israel specifically targeted the so-called axis of resistance, a network of groups allied with Iran that includes Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, Bashar …

Biden allows Ukraine to strike Russia with long-range U.S. missiles

11:16 18.11.2024

Biden allows Ukraine to strike Russia with long-range U.S. missiles

With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia, reports ‘The New York Times’. President Biden has authorized the first use of U.S.- supplied long-range …

Xi meets Biden in Lima

11:11 18.11.2024

Xi meets Biden in Lima

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday met with U.S. President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the 31st APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Lima, Peru, Xinhua informs. Xi told Biden that over the past four years, China-U.S. relations have gone through ups and downs, but the two sides have also …

View from Asia: The ‘quiet development’ shaking America’s power

11:09 18.11.2024

View from Asia: The ‘quiet development’ shaking America’s power

With the stunning comeback of Donald Trump as president, America’s allies are scrambling, writes at ‘The New York Times’ Sarang Shidore, the director of the Global South program at the Quincy Institute. Behind their sober messages of congratulation is a palpable anxiety that Washington will soon treat them as mere …

View from Washington: How Trump 2.0 will change American foreign policy

11:07 18.11.2024

View from Washington: How Trump 2.0 will change American foreign policy

Foreign policy may not have been a central issue during the election, but with Donald Trump returning to the White House, the potential implications for global politics are huge, ‘The Hill’ suggests. Trump’s approach deviates dramatically from the postwar consensus that has seen the U.S. act as a global stabilizer, …

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