US President Donald Trump has stifled almost every channel of diplomatic outreach with China, aiming to deal directly with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, as the trade war between the two superpowers escalates, Politico has reported citing anonymous sources. The increasing tit-for-tat duties between the US and China is part …
Read More »Trump wants a deal. Putin wants victory. Ukraine will get what it deserves
The Easter ceasefire has come and gone, with Russia and Ukraine trading accusations over thousands of violations as fighting resumes across the front lines – yet another reminder of how difficult it is to bring this war to an end. Amid the renewed hostilities, Donald Trump’s long-promised peace plan is …
Read More »Trump wants Gaza ceasefire ‘now’ – top senator
US President-elect Donald Trump wants to see Israel and Hamas reach a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the remaining Israeli hostages, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told Axios in an interview published on Friday. More than 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the fighting broke …
Read More »EU state’s PM wants Russians banned from voting
Russian citizens living in Estonia should be barred from taking part in local elections regardless of their views on the Ukraine conflict, the Baltic state’s Prime Minister Kristen Michal has insisted. Russian speakers make up 20% of Estonia’s population of just under 1.4 million, according to the Estonian government, Under the …
Read More »Macron wants Crimea seized from Russia
Ukraine must regain control over all the territories it once held, including Russia’s Crimean Peninsula, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. Otherwise, no “lasting peace” will be possible, he claimed. The president made the remarks on Thursday in an interview with broadcasters TF2 and France 2, bluntly describing Russia as …
Read More »Putin wants to end Ukraine conflict – Tucker Carlson
Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to engage in diplomacy to end the fighting in Ukraine, but the longer it continues the less likely he will be to compromise, US journalist Tucker Carlson warned on Monday. Carlson spoke at the World Government Summit in Dubai, where he flew after interviewing …
Read More »Zelensky wants West ‘to teach’ Russia
Ukraine can continue to resist Russia only if Western countries show solidarity on numerous fronts while intensifying joint arms production programs, President Vladimir Zelensky has said. Speaking via video link at the annual Society and Defense conference held in Sweden on Sunday, Zelensky claimed that Russia, which he described as …
Read More »Trump rival wants US out of NATO – Politico
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has signaled that he intends to pull the US out of NATO if he wins the 2024 election, Politico reported on Friday, citing sources. According to three people familiar with Ramaswamy’s thinking, he made the remarks privately while speaking to supporters. Publicly, the American entrepreneur …
Read More »British defense chief wants to send UK troops to Ukraine
The newly-appointed Defence Secretary, Grant Shapps, has unveiled ongoing discussions about expanding the UK-led training program for Ukrainian troops and potentially relocating British instructors into the country itself, as well as offering Kiev unspecified naval support in the Black Sea. “I was talking today about eventually getting the training brought closer and …
Read More »‘Ukraine has a terrorist government’: A new force in an EU state wants the bloc to change its stance
On September 16, around 10,000 protesters descended on Prague’s Wenceslas Square to demand a change to their government’s foreign policy. These protests were led by a group called Pravo Respekt Odbornost (Law Respect Expertise; PRO), which the Western mainstream media describes as pro-Russian and anti-Western. Jindrich Rajchl, a Czech attorney inspired by …
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