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View from London: Is the Ukraine war crushing Russia’s economy? Quite the opposite

9:21 28.06.2025

View from London: Is the Ukraine war crushing Russia’s economy? Quite the opposite

Although President Putin is acutely sensitive to public opinion and will take it prominently into account as he weighs his battlefield tactics, economic policy and diplomatic strategy, there is no suggestion yet that his countrymen are demanding an end to the fighting, notes well-known British observer Professor Mark Galeotti, who …

‘The Tehran Times’: Israel planned false flag operation on US soil

9:19 28.06.2025

‘The Tehran Times’: Israel planned false flag operation on US soil

Information obtained by the Tehran Times shows that Israel was plotting to carry out an explosion on U.S. soil and subsequently blame Iran, with the apparent aim of instigating a full-scale war between the United States and Iran. The plan involved orchestrating a destructive event within the U.S. and fabricating …

Vladimir Putin at Eurasian Economic Forum

13:17 27.06.2025

Vladimir Putin at Eurasian Economic Forum

Vladimir Putin addressed the plenary session of the Eurasian Economic Forum, held at the BelExpo National Exhibition Centre in Minsk. The topic of the discussion – Strategy for Eurasian Economic Integration: Results and Prospects. Taking part in the plenary session were President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, Prime Minister of Armenia …

Bloomberg: NATO has dodged collapse before – It’s never been this close

11:30 27.06.2025

Bloomberg: NATO has dodged collapse before – It’s never been this close

US presidents have always been skeptical of having to protect Europe, but Trump takes it to a new level. NATO is currently being tested by four convergent crises that run deeper than Trump’s disruptive effects, writes Hal Brands, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns …

FA: Europe’s two-front war – Putin, Trump, and the future of NATO

11:28 27.06.2025

FA: Europe’s two-front war – Putin, Trump, and the future of NATO

In the first half of the twentieth century, Europe was the most militarized and violent region on the planet. By the early twenty-first, it had become the least militarized and least violent, a model of peace, cooperation, and transnational integration, ‘Foreign Affairs’ notes. The post-World War II order was founded …

WP: How Israel deceived the United States about its nuclear weapons program

11:25 27.06.2025

WP: How Israel deceived the United States about its nuclear weapons program

Ever since Iran’s uranium-enrichment program was first revealed in 2002, American presidents have said they are determined to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon. Iran has been a member of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) since 1970, which commits non-nuclear-weapons nations to not acquire nuclear weapons and agree to …

Netanyahu acknowledges Israel authorized weapons transfers to Islamist “opposition clans” in Gaza

11:24 27.06.2025

Netanyahu acknowledges Israel authorized weapons transfers to Islamist “opposition clans” in Gaza

Former Israeli Defense Minister and opposition lawmaker Avigdor Liberman on Thursday accused Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of authorizing weapons transfers to a criminal gang in Gaza that he likened to the ISIS terrorist group (banned in Russia). "They are receiving weapons from the state of Israel. It's a total …

MWM: Russia begins serial production of Oreshinik – What makes it a Game Changer?

11:13 26.06.2025

MWM: Russia begins serial production of Oreshinik – What makes it a Game Changer?

Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 23 confirmed that serial production of the Oreshinik intermediate range ballistic missile is beginning, and that the missile has been assessed to have performed well when combat tested, ‘The Military Watch Magazine’ writes. “Volume production of the newest intermediate-range missile system Oreshnik, which has …

NATO summit – Trump was so cute

11:11 26.06.2025

NATO summit – Trump was so cute

NATO leaders agreed to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP and renewed their “ironclad commitment” to mutual security in an historic move to push back against an increasingly belligerent Russia, Bloomberg reports. The decision from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 32 members at their high-stakes summit in The Hague …

CNN: Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say

11:07 26.06.2025

CNN: Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say

The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by seven people briefed on it, CNN informs. The …

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