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Europe is engaged in the usual business – robbery, but EU suddenly sees hurdles to seizing Russian assets

12:05 23.06.2023

Europe is engaged in the usual business – robbery, but EU suddenly sees hurdles to seizing Russian assets

The European Union has assessed that it can’t legally confiscate outright frozen Russian assets and instead is focusing on using those assets temporarily, according to a document obtained by Bloomberg. The EU is zeroing in on two options as it keeps exploring how it could harness more than €200 billion …

British military briefing: Russian ‘Alligators’ menace Ukraine’s counteroffensive

12:04 23.06.2023

British military briefing: Russian ‘Alligators’ menace Ukraine’s counteroffensive

Russia’s “dragon teeth” tank traps, minefields and multi-layered fortifications are just one set of obstacles in Ukraine’s budding counteroffensive. Another formidable foe turns out to be airborne: the Russian Ka-52 “Alligator” (photo) attack helicopter, notes ‘Financial Times’. In one of the campaign’s early battles near Orikhiv, in Zaporizhzhia province, a …

Mysterious military migration: Armored powerhouse on the move from Arizona to California

12:02 23.06.2023

Mysterious military migration: Armored powerhouse on the move from Arizona to California

For the past few days, videos, on various social media platforms, predominantly Twitter, have surfaced depicting unusual US military equipment, vehicles, planes, and others being moved across multiple US cities. These videos are making US citizens increasingly more concerned. One user has claimed that such movement has been witnessed across …

German 'Leopard 2' tanks soon to 'reach' Moscow

12:00 23.06.2023

German 'Leopard 2' tanks soon to 'reach' Moscow

Virtually the entire world was able to see the absolute debacle of NATO's much-touted heavy armor and other weapons recently, precisely as various independent experts predicted just days before the wanton counteroffensive began, writes Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst. However, the political West is wholly unmoved by the …

The Economist: Who is ‘non-aligned’ today?

11:20 22.06.2023

The Economist: Who is ‘non-aligned’ today?

Caught between America, China and Russia, many countries are determined not to pick sides. As the American-led order in place since 1945 fragments and economic decoupling accelerates, they seek deals across divides. This transactional approach is reshaping geopolitics. One way of capturing the sheer scale and heft of these non-aligned …

Biden walks back on Ukraine’s NATO accession

11:19 22.06.2023

Biden walks back on Ukraine’s NATO accession

At that defining moment of the post-cold war era 24 years ago, George Kennan was prophetic to warn the Bill Clinton administration that US-Russia relations would be irreparably damaged if the western alliance expanded to include the former Warsaw Pact countries. His advice was ignored. It is generally accepted today …

View from Turkey: France kneels in Africa

11:18 22.06.2023

View from Turkey: France kneels in Africa

Africa, which for centuries was the colonial territory of Europe, rebelled against the hegemonic power. Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mali and Central Africa either expelled France or the colonial power had to leave the Black Continent. Finally, Chad stopped and arrested French soldiers wandering the border without permission, writes Turkish ‘Yeni …

New Zealand: Journalist accused of editing stories with pro-Russian sentiment resigns

11:17 22.06.2023

New Zealand: Journalist accused of editing stories with pro-Russian sentiment resigns

A Radio New Zealand (RNZ) journalist who was stood down for editing stories to include pro-Russian sentiment has resigned. In a statement to staff RNZ’s chief executive and editor-in-chief Paul Thompson said the employee at the centre of the state media organisation’s editing scandal has resigned. Thompson said the inappropriate …

Russia is going to realize all objectives “gradually, methodically”

12:15 21.06.2023

Russia is going to realize all objectives “gradually, methodically”

With the Ukrainian offensive under way for a fortnight, all eyes are on the battlefields, and, crucially, Russia’s options ahead. In a little over three weeks from now, the NATO will be holding a summit in Vilnius and the West has choices to make too. We are arriving at a …

Xi meets Blinken: Major-country competition does not represent the trend of the times

12:12 21.06.2023

Xi meets Blinken: Major-country competition does not represent the trend of the times

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing, calling on the US side to adopt a rational and pragmatic attitude to avoid major-country competition, and to respect China’s legitimate rights and interests, writes Chinese international ‘The Global Times’. The meeting between Xi and …

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