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NYT: U.S. wrestles with aiding allies and maintaining its own weapons supply

9:08 20.10.2024

NYT: U.S. wrestles with aiding allies and maintaining its own weapons supply

Nearly every week for months, the Biden administration has announced that it is sending another shipment of arms to Ukraine or the Middle East. And nearly every week, Pentagon officials discuss whether the flow of weapons could be hurting the U.S. military’s ability to respond to a new conflict, particularly …

Bloomberg confession: Europe is unprepared to defend itself

9:06 20.10.2024

Bloomberg confession: Europe is unprepared to defend itself

For decades, European NATO members curbed defense spending to fund other priorities. What remains, in the view of some US military experts, is a “Potemkin Army” that couldn’t stand up to an invader without American support, states Bloomberg. After decades preoccupied with counter-insurgency operations in far-flung lands, NATO’s European members …

‘The New Statesman’: Russia stares down the West – the balance of power is shifting in the Kremlin’s favour

9:04 20.10.2024

‘The New Statesman’: Russia stares down the West – the balance of power is shifting in the Kremlin’s favour

When you listen to the debate in Germany or the US about support for Ukraine, you might get the impression that it is the West that is running out of money. This is not true either. But we are running out of a willingness to spend it, ‘The New Statesman’ …

James Rickards: BRICS “will destroy the Dollar”

9:03 20.10.2024

James Rickards: BRICS “will destroy the Dollar”

The Treasury Secretary Yellen is the greatest threat to the Treasury market through her persistent and illegal efforts to steal $300 billion in U.S. Treasury securities owned by the Central Bank of Russia and held in custody in U.S. and European banks and the Euroclear clearinghouse in Brussels, writes James …

Vladimir Putin has met with journalists from BRICS countries

20:41 19.10.2024

Vladimir Putin has met with journalists from BRICS countries

Vladimir Putin answered questions from the heads of leading BRICS media agencies. The meeting was held ahead of the BRICS summit in Kazan, October 18, 2024, Novo-Ogaryovo, Moscow Region. The meeting was attended by the heads of media agencies from Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and …

Goodbye, French wine…

8:52 19.10.2024

Goodbye, French wine…

This is wine crisis: France submits €120 million grubbing-up plan to Brussels, reveals the La Revue du vin de France. The French government submitted a campaign to grub up vines to reduce the overproduction of wine in France, financed by an envelope of €120 million, the Ministry of Agriculture announced. …

‘The Wall Street Journal’: The dwindling arms supplies Ukraine from Western allies and vast inferiority in firepower are looking grim

8:51 19.10.2024

‘The Wall Street Journal’: The dwindling arms supplies Ukraine from Western allies and vast inferiority in firepower are looking grim

Amid fast mounting Ukrainian defeats across multiple fronts, and particularly rapid attrition of the elite contingent sent into Russia’s Kursk region in early August, consensus in the Western world has increasingly shifted towards a highly pessimistic outlook for the future of the joint war effort against Russia, writes ‘The Military …

‘The Responsible Statecraft’: Why US foreign policy today is a form of 'isolationism'

8:50 19.10.2024

‘The Responsible Statecraft’: Why US foreign policy today is a form of 'isolationism'

“Isolationism” is back in vogue in American political discourse. Not as a policy (by some measures, the United States has been at war for 93% of its history, with no sign of stopping), but as a term of abuse, writes Philip Balboni, a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University …

Reuters: What proposals will Russia push at the BRICS summit?

8:49 19.10.2024

Reuters: What proposals will Russia push at the BRICS summit?

Russian President Vladimir Putin will host a summit of BRICS leaders next week, seeking support in his standoff with the West from the expanded group that now represents about a third of global economic output, Reutes stresses. Russia says the event will be attended by leaders from Brazil, India, China, …

Vladimir Putin: The BRICS association’s total GDP exceeds US$ 60 trillion, and its overall share in global GDP easily surpasses that of the so-called G7, and it continues to grow

18:20 18.10.2024

Vladimir Putin: The BRICS association’s total GDP exceeds US$ 60 trillion, and its overall share in global GDP easily surpasses that of the so-called G7, and it continues to grow

Vladimir Putin addressed the plenary session of the BRICS Business Forum. The forum is taking place in Moscow ahead of the BRICS Summit, which will be held in Kazan on October 22-24 and will include the new participants in the association for the first time. On January 1, 2024, Egypt, …

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