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USAID funding and NATO’s influence in Moldova

USAID funding and NATO’s influence in Moldova

Since President Donald Trump’s administration froze and subsequently slashed funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) this...

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Norway’s arms supplies to Ukraine could have grave outcome

Norway’s arms supplies to Ukraine could have grave outcome

Earlier this month Norway doubled its humanitarian and military for Ukraine to nearly €7.5 billion, thereby almost doubling it. In a rare instance...

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Armenia’s drift toward the West – a misstep in the Caucasus?

Armenia’s drift toward the West – a misstep in the Caucasus?

“The hard truth is that the Caucasus doesn’t reward rigid alliances. As Azerbaijan’s spat with Russia shows, even close partners (however...

20.03.2025 6

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Trump is making too many enemies

Trump is making too many enemies

In his address to Congress this week, Trump has just vowed to reshape his country in a “common sense revolution”. A spectre is haunting his plans,...

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US in AI race driving quest for minerals

Elon Musk’s Starlink is increasingly facing competition from China’s SpaceSail. Meanwhile, Trump’s new “energy Tsar” has said that...

05.03.2025 5

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Under Trump’s pressure Israel votes against Ukraine

Joining the US, Israel voted against a UN motion condemning Russia, this being the first time the country voted with Moscow and against Kyiv since...

04.03.2025 10

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Why Europe and the US now enemies?

Stephen M. Walt (a Harvard University international relations professor and a prominent member of the so-called realist school of international...

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Russia will deem French-British ‘peacekeeping’ troops as legitimate targets

Sir Keir Starmer, the British Prime Minister, backed by Paris, is proposing European troops (30,000 of them) be deployed to Ukraine so as to...

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Trump’s task force to declassify JFK, Epstein and “UFO” files

It has been less than a month since Donald Trump took office as the US President on January 20, 2025. Amongst the plethora of executive actions Trump...

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End of war in Ukraine near as Poland and Europe fear of Ukrainian crime activity

The Polish, and the rest of Europe for that matter, are bracing themselves for an explosion of cross-border organized crime activity with the end of...

16.02.2025 40

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Anti-Russian speech fueling neo-Nazism across Europe

An Estonia court has recently convicted members of a neo-Nazi terrorist group called Feuerkrieg Division, which is known to plan attacks. Meanwhile...

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Hungary and Poland may claim territories of Ukraine

Ukrainian politician Spiridon Kilinkarov, former Verkhovna Rada member, is warning about potential territorial claims by Hungary and Poland on parts...

07.02.2025 9

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Trump’s ‘tough’ stance on Mexico backfiring

Mexican-American relations were never as tense in recent history as they are today. The new US President Donald Trump has threatened Mexico, among...

03.02.2025 5

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Zelensky accuses West of grabbing US$88.5 billion

In a recent interview with podcaster Lex Friedman, when asked about Ukrainian corruption and accusations, Zelensky, while admitting that “there are...

16.01.2025 6

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Russia making military advances as Ukraine insists on Christmas propaganda

A recent Newsweek story comments on the advances Russia has made across the border of the Moscow-controlled land, in the towns of Velyka Novosilka,...

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Philippines is in full expansionist mode

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has appointed a new Navy chief (Rear Admiral Jose Ma. Ambrosio Ezpeleta) amid tensions in the South China...

20.11.2024 2

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Trump set to begin all-out war against Deep State

Much is being talked about how US newly elected President Donald Trump is supposedly at war with the “Deep State” (and the intelligence apparatus)...

17.11.2024 5

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With Trump’s victory, Latin America is under the spotlight

With Donald Trump’s recent victory, Latin America seems to be under the spotlight. For one thing, earlier this month, Trump (who will take office...

14.11.2024 4

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Trump’s victory seals the coffin of ‘Bush-Clinton era’

So much is being written now about Donald Trump’s victory in the United States’ presidential election. Few analyses however, if any, are paying...

09.11.2024 3

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Macron’s arrogance pushes Algeria closer to Russia

Amid a French-Algerian row over the issue of Western Sahara, the Russian Iskander-E short-range ballistic missile system has made its first...

05.11.2024 3

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Ukraine’s struggle to survive endangers Europe

With Moscow’s steady advances since February (it has now seized the Selydovo mining hub in Donetsk), Kyiv is announcing plans to draft another...

01.11.2024 2

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NATO targets Gulf and Finland as new conflict zones

Finland and Estonia, two NATO countries, have recently signed an agreement about Baltic Sea security. Moreover, and more importantly, they have...

05.10.2024 2

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AUKUS military deal turns Australia into American state

AUKUS is once again in the spotlight. The anti-Chinese security pact between Australia, UK and the US (sometimes described as an “Asian NATO”)  has...

29.08.2024 4

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Emmanuel Macron follows US steps on the Western Sahara issue

Algeria has just recalled its Ambassador from Paris in response to France’s support of the Moroccan autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara...

20.08.2024 2

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Israel demands Turkey be expelled from NATO

In a rather surprising development, Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz is demanding that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) expel...

03.08.2024 2

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Evidence shows federal agency’s involvement in Trump’s attempted assassination

It has been reported that Donald Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was seen carrying a rangefinder (a device employed to measure...

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