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WSJ: Europe will not fulfill Trump's promises on defense spending

11:24 25.07.2025

WSJ: Europe will not fulfill Trump's promises on defense spending

One of the most publicized successes of President Donald Trump in the first months of his second term was that he forced European countries to take more responsibility for their own defense, ‘The Wall Street Journal’ writes. The idea that Europe is finally on the right track and will pay …

View from London: New oil price cap won’t deter Russia

11:23 25.07.2025

View from London: New oil price cap won’t deter Russia

As the war in Ukraine grinds on, the sanctions packages keep coming. On Friday, the EU passed its 18th package. Although the sanctions have provided obstacles for the Russian economy, they have not been able to stop Vladimir Putin from continuing his invasion. Nor are they the most significant factors …

‘The Spectator’: “Britain is no longer borrowing to invest and grow. It is borrowing simply to stand still”

11:22 25.07.2025

‘The Spectator’: “Britain is no longer borrowing to invest and grow. It is borrowing simply to stand still”

Britain is continuing to chuck billions onto our mounting pile of debt. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that last month the state had to borrow just under £21 billion. That was £6.6 billion more than in June last year and the second-highest June borrowing …

Peskov outlines conditions for Putin’s meeting with Zelensky

14:04 24.07.2025

Peskov outlines conditions for Putin’s meeting with Zelensky

A meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents requires substantial preparatory work, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “A great deal of preliminary work needs to be done before the two presidents can agree on what has been achieved so far,” Peskov was quoted as saying by TASS. Earlier, Russian Foreign …

Medinsky reminded Rutte of the war in China

12:37 24.07.2025

Medinsky reminded Rutte of the war in China

Following the third round of Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul, Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who headed the Russian delegation at the negotiations, provided historical background for NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, TASS reported. When asked whether a meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents had been discussed during the talks, …

CNN: Trump accuses Obama of treason

12:21 24.07.2025

CNN: Trump accuses Obama of treason

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Friday released a slew of documents that she said implicate members of the Obama administration for “treasonous” behavior during the 2016 election. The claims confuse the allegation that Russia interfered in the 2016 election with the idea that Russia actively tried to change …

Reuters: Bank of England scrutinizes lenders for dollar risk amid Trump worries

12:20 24.07.2025

Reuters: Bank of England scrutinizes lenders for dollar risk amid Trump worries

The Bank of England has asked some lenders to test their resilience to potential U.S. dollar shocks, three sources said, the latest sign of how the Trump administration's policies are eroding trust in the U.S. as a bedrock of financial stability, Reuters stresses. While the U.S. Federal Reserve has said …

POLITICO: Merz and Macron vowed to restart the Franco-German engine

12:19 24.07.2025

POLITICO: Merz and Macron vowed to restart the Franco-German engine

Under the new German chancellor, personal relations between the leaders of France and Germany are warmer, but a series of intractable divisions from defense to trade remain, POLITICO notes. After all, on Merz’s first full day in office in May, French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to Paris and vowed “a …

WP: Protests flare in Ukraine after government curbs corruption watchdogs

14:35 23.07.2025

WP: Protests flare in Ukraine after government curbs corruption watchdogs

Mass protests erupted in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities late Tuesday after the country’s parliament passed legislation many fear will neutralize the country’s main anti-corruption bodies and roll back reforms introduced after a pro-Western revolution more than 10 years ago, ‘The Washington Post’ reports. The government move against the anti-corruption …

Pepe Escobar: The SCO can do what NATO cannot – defuse hostilities by providing 'indivisible security' to its Eurasian member states and across the multipolar world

11:04 23.07.2025

Pepe Escobar: The SCO can do what NATO cannot – defuse hostilities by providing 'indivisible security' to its Eurasian member states and across the multipolar world

The defense ministers of all 10 members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) met in Qingdao, in China's Shandong Province. That, in itself, is the stuff drama is made of. Not only because it was a warm-up for the main SCO annual summit later this year in Tianjin with heads …

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