Russia and the US confirmed their mutual intent on Tuesday to revive the grain deal, though Russia’s statement conditioned this on the US finally complying with the original deal’s provisions, namely the removal of sanctions and other obstacles to...
The Atlantic’s Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he was accidentally added by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz to a secret Signal chat that saw other leading national security officials planning the Trump Administration’s recent strikes against the...
The publicly financed Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported over the weekend that some complications have emerged with Canberra’s planned transfer of 49 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. An unnamed American official told them that the “US government last year cautioned...
Putin’s senior aide Nikolai Patrushev, who ran the FSB for nearly a decade (1999-2008) before chairing the Security Council for over 15 years till recently (2008-2024), shared some updates about the Baltic and Arctic fronts of the New Cold...
The Russian and Pakistani Navies conducted a passing exercise (PASSEX) in the Arabian Sea last week. This is a standard drill, “during which communication and interaction between them are checked in a military situation or when providing humanitarian assistance”,...
The Financial Times (FT) cited four unnamed European officials to report that “European military powers work on 5-10 year plan to replace US in Nato”. The UK, France, Germany, and the Nordic nations are named as those that want...
Putin signed a decree on Thursday obligating all Ukrainians in Russia without valid residence documents to legalize their stay by 10 September. They can do this by either applying for Russian citizenship via the simplified procedure for Ukrainian nationals...
A survey that was commissioned by the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita in early March revealed that a significant share of Poles doubt Trump’s reliability as an ally. 46.3% think that the US is now an unreliable guarantor of their country’s...
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sparked a scandal when she recently told Indian media during her trip to the country that Trump 2.0 is concerned about the persecution of minorities and growing caliphate threats in Bangladesh. That country’s...
The Baltic States’ and Poland’s Defense Ministers issued a joint statement on Tuesday announcing that their countries are withdrawing from the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (Ottawa Convention) in response to what they portrayed as new threats from Russia. Neither...
