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Bloomberg: US vetoes G-7 Russian ‘shadow fleet’ task force plan

11:22 11.03.2025

Bloomberg: US vetoes G-7 Russian ‘shadow fleet’ task force plan

The US has rejected a Canadian proposal to establish a task force that would tackle Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of oil tankers, as the Trump administration re-evaluates its positions across multilateral organizations, according to people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg informs. Canada, which holds this year’s revolving G-7 presidency, will …

Sectarian violence sweeps Syria as security forces rampage in Alawite towns

11:12 10.03.2025

Sectarian violence sweeps Syria as security forces rampage in Alawite towns

At least 147 people have been killed in Syria in the past two days, as security forces from the country's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) (banned in Russia) – led government carried out a series of massacres and extrajudicial executions against Alawites in the country's coastal regions as part of a …

View from Delhi: Trump’s policy for detente with Russia - is it durable?

11:09 10.03.2025

View from Delhi: Trump’s policy for detente with Russia - is it durable?

Each superpower’s survival and the fate of the planet itself depended on a stable relationship with the adversary based on a mutual understanding of vital interests, writes Zorawar Daulet Singh, an award-winning author and strategic affairs expert based in New Delhi. Decades of tension stemming from NATO’s expansion, Anglo-American prejudice …

View from Washington: “European defense companies are inefficient, slow and rarely support the hardware that comes out of their factories”

11:08 10.03.2025

View from Washington: “European defense companies are inefficient, slow and rarely support the hardware that comes out of their factories”

Europe is almost totally unprepared to act as a collective force. Big talk, low performance, writes Stephen Bryen, a former US Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. Ursula Von Der Leyen, the President of the European Commission has proposed that Europe increase its defense spending by 1.5% GDP over the average …

Bloomberg: The German economy is down a ladder that leads down

11:06 10.03.2025

Bloomberg: The German economy is down a ladder that leads down

German factory orders fell 7% in January, driven by a decline in orders for machines and vehicles, Bloomberg reports. German factory orders fell in January by the most in a year, a poor start to a quarter when Europe’s largest economy may have struggled to achieve any growth at all. …

View from ACURA: Trump freed himself from Biden anti-Russian policy

11:01 09.03.2025

View from ACURA: Trump freed himself from Biden anti-Russian policy

In negotiating with Vladimir Putin over the fate of Ukraine, President Trump appears to have freed himself from the policies of his predecessor: a misguided effort by neoconservative think tanks and US government officials to capitalize on Ukraine’s divided social and political history in the hope of weakening Russia as …

Saudi Wealth Fund blocks PwC from advisory work for one year

10:59 09.03.2025

Saudi Wealth Fund blocks PwC from advisory work for one year

Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund has temporarily banned PwC from advisory and consulting services contracts, people familiar with matter said, halting the firm’s progress in one of the world’s most lucrative markets, Bloomberg informs. Executives at the $925 billion Public Investment Fund and its more than 100 subsidiaries have been told …

View from Hong Kong: Ukraine debacle signals the death of Atlanticism

10:57 09.03.2025

View from Hong Kong: Ukraine debacle signals the death of Atlanticism

With Trump advocating for an end to the Ukraine war and signaling a hard shift in US policy, Europe finds itself caught in a geopolitical non-man’s land. It alienated China, severed economic ties with Russia and failed to anticipate Trump’s historic strategic shift, notes ‘The Asian Times’. Making matters worse, …

POLITICO: EU promises big on defense but… “leaders locking horns over how to finance an €800 billion defense rampup”

10:54 09.03.2025

POLITICO: EU promises big on defense but… “leaders locking horns over how to finance an €800 billion defense rampup”

Concern about a potential U.S. withdrawal or downgrade in Europe's security architecture has set off one of the biggest geopolitical crises to hit the continent in decades, with leaders engaging in a frenzy of diplomacy over the past two weeks, writes POLITICO. Despite everything that's happened in the six short …

Europe’s nightmare is here: They have to fight without the US

9:49 08.03.2025

Europe’s nightmare is here: They have to fight without the US

The Oval Office blow up between Zelenskiy and Trump laid bare for many Europeans that something critical has broken in their relationship with Washington, notes Bloomberg. European leaders are confronting their worst-case scenario: maybe they really are going to be dealing with a bellicose Russia alone. In interviews with Bloomberg, …

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