Continuing support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia may mean long-term trouble for NATO, with major issues that should be addressed by the military bloc being “kicked down the road,” experts and former officials have told Politico. A piece run by the outlet on Saturday ahead of the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius, …
Read More »EU divided over Ukraine support – Kiev
EU members are at odds over how they should support Ukraine, with some countries unprepared to provide Kiev with a €9 billion ($9.1 billion) aid package, Ukrainian Finance Minister Sergey Marchenko said in an interview with Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Monday. He claimed the world is also getting …
Read More »Sweden’s ruling party divided on NATO
Sweden’s ruling political party is reportedly divided on whether to join NATO, as the women’s wing of the Social Democrats has called for keeping the country militarily neutral. Annika Strandhall, the country’s climate and environment minister, told Stockholm newspaper Svenska Dagbalet that the women’s faction of the party opposes joining …
Read More »NATO divided over Russia – media
As NATO foreign ministers meet in Brussels this week to decide on how to further back Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, members of the US-led military bloc are in dispute over what strategy to adopt towards Moscow, the New York Times reported on Wednesday citing Western officials. The likes …
Read More »NATO divided on military aid for Ukraine – media
NATO allies strongly disagree about the extent of military aid the US-led bloc should provide to Ukraine and the prospects of talks with Russia, Bloomberg reported on Monday, quoting numerous sources and documents. Some members were said to have been “adamant” about wishing to avoid a direct war with Russia, …
Read More »How the Ukraine crisis divided European countries
Concerns over ‘Russia’s invasion’ of Ukraine are growing in European countries. Local experts keep talking about the country’s “increasing military buildup” along its western borders – every month, they post almost identical images from American satellites. The Western media are painting a vivid picture of Moscow’s plan to “attack from …
Read More »EU divided over Russia sanctions – Polish PM
Despite repeated warnings from the West in recent weeks over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine, EU members are still divided over what sort of sanctions to impose on Moscow and over how much military aid to send to Kiev if an incursion takes place, Poland’s Prime Minister has cautioned. In an …
Read More »A year on from the Capitol riot, America remains divided, disillusioned, and angry
Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and herself the Representative of the people of Wyoming in the House of Representatives, has said it best: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, “is clearly unfit for future office” and should “never be anywhere near the Oval …
Read More »‘He never learned to spell grazie’: Juventus fans divided on Ronaldo exit… with some claiming they never wanted him at the club
Juventus and Ronaldo’s relationship often seemed precariously rocky, not least when the club and player fell well short of their prized ambition of a place in the latter stages of the Champions League in each of his three seasons in Turin. Worse was to come in Ronaldo’s final season, when …
Read More »US report on Covid-19 origins finds intelligence community ‘divided’ between lab leak and animal exposure theories
The ‘Intelligence Community assessment,’ released on Friday, found that officials “remain divided on the most likely origin of Covid-19,” acknowledging, however, that two hypotheses are most likely: “natural exposure to an infected animal or a laboratory-associated incident.” One agency, which is not identified in the report, argued with “moderate confidence” …
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