Trump lamented Ukraine’s destroyed cities and the dead on both sides, claiming the actual losses will ultimately be far higher than both Kyiv and Moscow have so far reported. “Everyone is being killed, it’s the worst carnage that this world has seen since WWII. It has got to stop,” he said, adding his administration would … Read more
Trump has repeatedly claimed that he would end the war started by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 in one day. In an attempt to anticipate any upcoming cuts to Ukraine funding, the government of outgoing President Joe Biden is looking to send the last of more than $6 billion … Read more
Even as Blinken landed, Hezbollah fired waves of rockets at two sites near Tel Aviv: the Glilot base used by Israel’s military intelligence and the Nirit suburb. Rockets were also fired at a naval base outside the port city of Haifa, further north, and several sirens sounded in Tel Aviv, but there were no immediate … Read more
The Republican candidate added that if he wins the election, “the first thing I’m gonna do is call up Zelenskyy and call up President Putin and I’m gonna say, ‘You gotta make a deal, this is crazy.’” Trump has repeatedly vowed to negotiate an end to the conflict, though he has declined to give further … Read more
Aside from the mysterious disappearances, a number of other, seemingly separate events over the past days have fuelled suspicion that something important is brewing. On Tuesday, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, in a surprise move, pardoned Rico Krieger, a German citizen and the first Westerner to receive a death sentence. A day later, on Wednesday, Slovenia … Read more
The 39-year-old senator is one of the most isolationist members of the Republican Party. He is vehemently opposed to using more funds to help Ukraine and has blasted what he sees as Europe’s over-dependence on the United States when it comes to military investment. In a lengthy interview with POLITICO at the Munich Security Conference … Read more
The American ambassador to Budapest hit out at Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Tuesday for siding with Donald Trump in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Speaking at an Independence Day reception in Budapest, Ambassador David Pressman said Orbán “continues to remind us, daily, of who he would like to win that election, who he … Read more
“I don’t think anyone expected such carnage … Trump proved once again that his potential victory is bad news for NATO, Ukraine, and by extension — Poland,” Onet’s analysis added. France’s Le Monde called Biden’s stumbling over his words a “shipwreck,” adding that Trump “was able to roll out lies without contradiction,” while Britain’s Economist … Read more
The U.S. bill would impose travel bans and other sanctions on Georgian politicians accused of “obstructing Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic integration” and being behind “corruption, human rights abuses and efforts to advance foreign agents law or facilitate its passage.” It also calls for a permanent suspension of the U.S.-Georgia Strategic Dialogue, which has seen the two countries … Read more
