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Russia has long counted on the West growing weary of providing Ukraine with long-term military and financial assistance. Complacent Westerners, Russian strategists hoped, would lose interest in funding a lengthy war, especially if Russian...
by Econhistorian
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on Sun Apr 21, 2024 at 01:09 AM PDT
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The Pentagon could get weapons moving to Ukraine within days once the Senate passes a long-delayed aid bill . That's because it has a network of storage sites in the U.S. and Europe that already ...
by Associated Press
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 03:59 PM PDT
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An interesting article on Switzerland and the future of their “neutrality” in Newsweek this week. On the plus side, Switzerland has largely gone along with EU sanctions on Russia over their illegal and unjustified war against Ukraine: Switzerland is...
by Irontortoise
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 03:04 AM PDT
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Norway and a core group of EU countries will formally recognize the state of Palestine soon and they are pushing for the EU to do so as a bloc as well. Norway, Spain, Ireland, Malta and Slovenia are working jointly to get more EU countries on board as...
by elliott
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 04:48 PM PDT
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It makes absolutely no sense to build ludicrously expensive assets like aircraft carriers that take ages to build and that can’t be replaced if lost or misson-killed in a war. And the same goes for all the stuff that goes along with aircraft carriers...
by Jim Carner
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 12:24 AM PDT
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In the Spanish town of León, locals toast Easter with a ‘Kill Jews’ cocktail The Holy Week before Easter is Spain’s paramount religious period. Celebrations in the ancient northwestern city of León — population about 124,000 now — offer a...
by mettle fatigue
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 03:30 PM PDT
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While the old order is still in place, now is the time to be thinking about what is coming next. Because a New World Order is certainly coming whether or not we are ready. This really isn’t news to anyone, as I think we have all been feeling it. But I...
by Peter Olandt
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 12:15 PM PST
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The Hill has an interesting opinion piece by Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth about French President Macron’s possibly premature call for NATO troops to enter the fighting in Ukraine to prevent a Russian victory there at all costs that I first reported on...
by Irontortoise
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 07:52 PM PST
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Europe experienced record-breaking heat anomalies in much of the continent, only the Scandinavian countries in the far north experienced cold temperatures. Jaw-dropping temperatures of 2 Celsius (3.6 F) above normal, portions of central and southern...
by Pakalolo
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 03:01 AM PST
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This was originally broken by Putin’s puppet in Slovakia, PM Fico: (Reuters) -Several NATO and European Union members are considering sending soldiers to Ukraine on a bilateral basis, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Monday. Fico, who has long...
by Irontortoise
195 comments
on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 09:23 PM PST
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It’s been an unusually busy day for news out of Hungary. Definitely on the plus side, It looks like the Hungarian Parliament is really (this time for sure?) going to ‘allow’ Sweden into NATO when it meets next Monday. From the AP: Hungary's governing...
by Irontortoise
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on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 07:32 PM PST
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In response to the tens of thousands of Hungarians protesting against the expanding pardon scandal this week that has already claimed the president, the former Justice minister, and the head of the Reformed (Lutheran) Church (which I covered in...
by Irontortoise
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on Sun Feb 18, 2024 at 07:14 PM PST
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A couple of months ago I wrote a diary looking into Polish history and the possibility of resurrecting Marshal Pilsudski’s Promethean Project for dismantling the Russian Empire. Today the Guardian takes another look at that general subject from our...
by Irontortoise
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on Sat Feb 17, 2024 at 09:01 PM PST
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In a classic example of media misdirection, the narrative surrounding habitual liar Donald Trump's latest controversial statements about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) demonstrates the media's susceptibility to his well-documented...
by ViewFromTheMiddle
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 02:39 PM PST
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It took some time before Donald Trump’s Saturday night statement that he would not come to the aid of European NATO allies and would encourage Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to get ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 08:05 AM PST
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I can lead readers to critical news with meat on the bones besides Donald Trump, though I can’t make them read it. Ignore it at your peril. Let's give Nicolas Camut a hand. In a world full of media, global warming ignorance, and coverups on the...
by Pakalolo
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 09:41 AM PST
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As per the AP today: Turkish legislators on Tuesday endorsed Sweden’s membership in NATO, lifting a major hurdle on the previously nonaligned country’s entry into the military alliance. The legislators ratified Sweden’s accession protocol by 287 votes...
by Irontortoise
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on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 01:39 PM PST
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You can read more great Ukraine coverage by both staff and community members here . “Putin could attack NATO in ‘5 to 8 years,’ German defense minister warns,” screams a Politico headline ...
by kos
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on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
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America’s position as the sole great power within the international system has come to an end. The future of the liberal world order has become precarious. Brief History & Theoretical Concepts in International Relations The balance of power within the...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 10:11 PM PST
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On September 27th, 1981, the first ever French TGV with passengers left Gare de Lyon in Paris on the way to the city of Lyon, reaching speeds of up to 260 kilometers per hour on its 400-kilometer journey. It marked a new era of train travel and train...
by Neon Neo
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on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 08:40 PM PST
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