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FT: Brussels to free up billions of euros for defence and security from EU budget

11:44 15.11.2024

FT: Brussels to free up billions of euros for defence and security from EU budget

Brussels is changing its spending policies to potentially redirect tens of billions of euros to defence and security, as Russia’s war in Ukraine and Donald Trump’s return to the White House heap pressure on the EU to boost investment, ‘The financial Times’ notes. The policy shift would apply to about …

Bloomberg: The outlook for the security of the Western democracies is bleak

10:05 14.11.2024

Bloomberg: The outlook for the security of the Western democracies is bleak

For the past 80 years, whoever has “played the fool” on the world stage, it has been the United States that has paid the piper, Bloomberg notes. While MAGA supporters decline to accept that exercising the leadership of democracies has advanced American political and economic interests, most economists believe that …

Donald Trump’s 10-point plan to dismantle the Deep State revisited

10:04 14.11.2024

Donald Trump’s 10-point plan to dismantle the Deep State revisited

What can we expect from the new Trump administration? Inquiring minds surely want to know, writes ‘US Presidential Election News’. Few details have been released so far except for Trump campaign co-chair Susie Wiles’s appointment as the future White House Chief of Staff. Other than that, Trump has said many …

With only two months left, what are Biden’s options for Ukraine?

10:02 14.11.2024

With only two months left, what are Biden’s options for Ukraine?

US president is running out of time to deliver funds and weapons before a predicted foreign policy change by Trump administration, writes ‘The Guardian’. With little more than two months left in the White House, Joe Biden is running out of time to expedite the delivery of funds and weaponry …

NYT: Devastated Democrats play the blame game, and stare at a dark future

10:01 14.11.2024

NYT: Devastated Democrats play the blame game, and stare at a dark future

A depressed and demoralized Democratic Party is beginning the painful slog into a largely powerless future, as its leaders grapple with how deeply they underestimated Donald J. Trump’s resurgent hold on the nation, writes ‘The New York Times’. The nationwide repudiation of the party stunned many Democrats who had expressed …

Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev: US intelligence agencies must prevent new attempts on Trump’s life

11:16 13.11.2024

Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev: US intelligence agencies must prevent new attempts on Trump’s life

The US is no stranger to assassination attempts on its presidents, as history has shown, so American intelligence agencies and the Secret Service will need to stay on their toes to keep President-elect Donald Trump out of harm’s way, Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev said in an interview with the …

View from Delhi: Russia, India are early birds as Pax Americana is ending

11:15 13.11.2024

View from Delhi: Russia, India are early birds as Pax Americana is ending

Donald Trump became the first U.S. president since Grover Cleveland in 1893 to be reelected after losing a previous reelection, The influential CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Ivo Daalder, who was the US ambassador to NATO, succinctly captured the imminent power shift in DC when he wrote …

Donald Trump’s victory signals end of US-led postwar order

11:14 13.11.2024

Donald Trump’s victory signals end of US-led postwar order

The Western-led multilateral world order that flourished after the end of the cold war and embodied a more hopeful collaborative spirit has for years been showing signs of strain, notes ‘The Financial Times’. Now the re-election of Donald Trump with his “America First” agenda threatens to accelerate its decline — …

The West is going crazy with fear – ‘four years without Trump’ on the high seas!

11:13 13.11.2024

The West is going crazy with fear – ‘four years without Trump’ on the high seas!

Millions of Americans were considering leaving the country if former President Donald Trump won reelection during the 2024 campaign. On early Wednesday morning, his victory was announced, and searches for the phrase "moving to Canada" spiked. If the state of the world — or the latest election results — have …

The First Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum

13:27 12.11.2024

The First Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum

Press release on the First Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum: On November 9-10, Sochi hosted the First Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum at Sirius University. Instituted by a decision of the 2nd Russia-Africa Summit in St Petersburg in July 2023, this new dialogue format is called …

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