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...
The nascent Russian-US “New Détente” didn’t lead to a ceasefire during the latest Putin-Trump call, thus meaning that the hot phase of the Ukrainian Conflict continues, albeit with a proposed cessation of attacks on energy infrastructure provided that Kiev...
Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that “Russia Is Wooing Arctic Gas Buyers With Life After US Sanctions”. They cited unnamed sources to report that Novatek, the company behind the Arctic LNG 2 megaproject, is courting American, European, and even Indian...
Semafor cited two unnamed people familiar with the matter to exclusively report on Monday that Trump is considering having the US recognize Crimea as Russian and even pressure the UN to do the same as part of a larger...
Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Vorobyev signed a naval cooperation agreement with landlocked Ethiopia last week while visiting its Maritime Training Institute. Readers can learn more about Ethiopia’s policy of peacefully regaining free and full access...
Trump’s Executive Order last week eliminating the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the rationale of which was explained here as regards to stopping the state’s funding of ideologically radical propaganda, has been condemned by critics as a deathblow...
The self-described “powerful military action” that Trump authorized over the weekend against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, which aligns with the reinstatement of his “maximum pressure” policy against the group’s Iranian patron and follows their redesignation by the US as terrorists,...
Most observers missed last week’s European Parliament resolution on the white paper on the future of European defense despite its importance. Article 15 “stresses that the East Shield and Baltic Defence Line should be the flagship EU projects for...
Polish Prime Minister Tusk recently declared that “We must be aware that Poland must reach for the most modern capabilities also related to nuclear weapons and modern unconventional weapons.” This followed French President Macron proposal to extend his country’s...
The latest sectarian violence in Syria killed almost 1,000 members of the Alawite minority at the minimum, with many of them still sheltering in place or hiding somewhere outside of their homes due to their fear of being murdered...
