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‘The American Conservative’: Most of the $61 billion “for Kyiv” is being spent in the United States, not Ukraine

11:10 13.09.2024

‘The American Conservative’: Most of the $61 billion “for Kyiv” is being spent in the United States, not Ukraine

Pro-Ukraine aid lawmakers have learned their lesson. As the allotment for new weapons in the $61 billion Ukraine aid package is set to drain out by January, machinations are in play to get more to Kyiv without the kind of political debate that overtook Congress this year, writes ‘The American …

View from Washington: Expanding NATO is risky for the United States

11:09 13.09.2024

View from Washington: Expanding NATO is risky for the United States

As we view the tragedy in Ukraine it is hard to understand why so many billions of dollars and tens of thousands of modern weapons have been squandered in a NATO crusade to expand its borders, writes Stephen Bryen, a former US Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. The Ukraine war …

View from EU: The US election will overturn Europe’s strategic status quo

11:08 13.09.2024

View from EU: The US election will overturn Europe’s strategic status quo

Whether the next US president is Trump or Harris, Europeans must start planning for a change, notes Mark Leonard, the director of the European Council on Foreign Relations. With the US election just two months away, European decision-makers have gone from grappling with Trumpian nightmare scenarios—new trade wars, abandoning Ukraine …

Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council: “The West is ‘up to its ears’ in the Ukrainian conflict”

11:40 12.09.2024

Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council: “The West is ‘up to its ears’ in the Ukrainian conflict”

Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council briefing on Ukraine. Main points: - We have just listened to our hypocritical Western colleagues yet again wailing about the recent strikes by the Russian Armed Forces that targeted infrastructure related to the Kiev regime's military capabilities. Indeed, these attacks proved to …

CNN: Outgunned and outnumbered, Ukraine’s military is struggling with low morale and desertion

11:39 12.09.2024

CNN: Outgunned and outnumbered, Ukraine’s military is struggling with low morale and desertion

Two and half years of Russia’s grinding offensive have decimated many Ukrainian units. Reinforcements are few and far between, leaving some soldiers exhausted and demoralized. The situation is particularly dire among infantry units near Pokrovsk and elsewhere on the eastern front line, where Ukraine is struggling to stop Russia’s creeping …

Who won Trump-Harris debate?

11:36 12.09.2024

Who won Trump-Harris debate?

NewsNation’s Dan Abrams and Chris Stirewalt joined Chris Cuomo to discuss some of the hottest debate topics: Did the moderators favor one candidate? Did Harris and Trump accomplish what they set out to do? Trump vs. Harris debate overview: In the muted mic debate, the pair blamed each other for …

‘Special’ relationship: PM Starmer blames Tories for ‘broken’ Health Service in England but they warned that ‘he is placing Britain on the path to destitution’

11:34 12.09.2024

‘Special’ relationship: PM Starmer blames Tories for ‘broken’ Health Service in England but they warned that ‘he is placing Britain on the path to destitution’

Tory governments dealt ‘unforgiveable’ damage for NHS. Prime Minister Keir Starmer blamed his Conservative predecessors for leaving England’s health service in a “broken” state, in his latest effort to frame the political narrative ahead of what’s expected to be a difficult budget proposal next month. Successive Tory-led governments dealt “unforgiveable” …

View from Washington: Does the media bear some responsibility for lives lost in Ukraine?

11:34 11.09.2024

View from Washington: Does the media bear some responsibility for lives lost in Ukraine?

In a nation and a world crying out for honest, non-biased investigative journalism, we are often getting “reporting” that either supports an ideology or political party, or continually attacks and smears people who hold different views. Goodbye independent reporting, and hello state-sanctioned propaganda, writes Douglas MacKinnon, a former White House …

Former ECB chief Mario Draghi: “For the first time since the Cold War we must genuinely fear for our self-preservation…”

11:33 11.09.2024

Former ECB chief Mario Draghi: “For the first time since the Cold War we must genuinely fear for our self-preservation…”

Former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi called on the EU to invest as much as €800 billion ($884 billion) extra a year and commit to the regular issuance of common bonds to make the bloc more competitive with China and the US. In his long-awaited report ‘The Future of …

‘The Responsible Statecraft’: How Macron endangered French democracy and support for Ukraine

11:32 11.09.2024

‘The Responsible Statecraft’: How Macron endangered French democracy and support for Ukraine

Assistance to Kyiv may be the first casualty in the French president’s pick for prime minister, writes ‘The Responsible Statecraft’. Sixty days after the parliamentary elections that delivered a hung parliament, French President Emmanuel Macron has nominated the experienced center-right politician Michel Barnier as the nation’s new prime minister. Irrespective …

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