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WP: Israel likely to strike Iran in coming months, warns U.S. intelligence

11:23 16.02.2025

WP: Israel likely to strike Iran in coming months, warns U.S. intelligence

The warnings about a potential Israeli strike are included in multiple intelligence reports spanning the end of the Biden administration and the beginning of the Trump administration, none more comprehensive than an early January report produced by the intelligence directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Intelligence …

View from Türkiye: Russia returns to Africa – Lavrov opens Department for Partnership with Africa

11:22 16.02.2025

View from Türkiye: Russia returns to Africa – Lavrov opens Department for Partnership with Africa

Africa is a natural Russian ally in ensuring that the principles of justice and equality are upheld around the world, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the official launch of the country's newly established Department for Partnership with Africa, Anadolu Agency from Türkiye reports. Russia "returns" to Africa, Lavrov …

CNN: US relations with Europe will never be the same after Trump’s call with Putin

11:20 16.02.2025

CNN: US relations with Europe will never be the same after Trump’s call with Putin

Europe’s American century is over, CNN stresses. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, meanwhile, went to Brussels and told European allies to “take ownership of conventional security on the continent.” The watershed highlights Trump’s “America First” ideology and his tendency to see every issue or alliance as a dollars and cents …

POLITICO: The Earth has irrevocably shifted under Europe’s feet

11:18 16.02.2025

POLITICO: The Earth has irrevocably shifted under Europe’s feet

JD Vance’s fiery speech at the Munich Security Conference — part of his multi-day debut on the world stage as U.S. vice president — dominated the marathon high-level gabfest among hundreds of top foreign dignitaries and national security elites, writes POLITICO. “No one is talking about anything else,” said a …

Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio

0:07 16.02.2025

Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Press Release on Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. On February 15, at the initiative of the American side, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Building on the February 12 telephone conversation between …

Bloomberg in panic: Trump is like Putin and Xi – an ‘Imperialist’!

10:57 15.02.2025

Bloomberg in panic: Trump is like Putin and Xi – an ‘Imperialist’!

This is a very telling comment from Bloomberg. In the Western liberal circles there is a growing panic – that they have begun to understand that the three World Powers, the USA, Russia and China, can find common interests so that the peoples of the Earth can live in peace …

Big resignation: The president of Romania is leaving office

10:56 15.02.2025

Big resignation: The president of Romania is leaving office

Against the backdrop of the political crisis in Romania, the rating of presidential candidate Calin Georgescu, who favors the restoration of dialog with Moscow, is growing. His support has increased to 37%. Earlier, the incumbent head of state Klaus Iohannis decided to leave office because the opposition in parliament initiated …

View from London: A phone call sparks fear and dread in Kyiv and other European capitals

10:55 15.02.2025

View from London: A phone call sparks fear and dread in Kyiv and other European capitals

Ever since Donald Trump vowed during his election campaign to end the war in Ukraine quickly, Zelensky and his European supporters have feared abandonment by America. Their dread grew on February 12th, when Mr Trump spoke by phone with Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin, without co-ordinating the details beforehand with Ukraine, …

‘Isvestia’: SVR Chief Naryshkin calls Poland's claims to Lviv not unfounded

10:54 15.02.2025

‘Isvestia’: SVR Chief Naryshkin calls Poland's claims to Lviv not unfounded

Poland is not unreasonably eyeing Ukrainian Lviv. This was reported on February 13 by the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and the head of the Russian Historical Society (RHS), Sergey Naryshkin, writes ‘Isvestia’. "The most consistent claim to its so-called "eastern crosses" has always been made by …

View from Washington: Europe gasping for air as Trump makes his Ukraine move

12:35 14.02.2025

View from Washington: Europe gasping for air as Trump makes his Ukraine move

European leaders who have been strongly supporting keeping the Ukraine war going have been dealt a serious blow by President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Most of them must be in shock, gasping for breath, writes Stephen Bryen, a former U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. Let's start …

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