Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, said in an interview that weapons makers need to up their game and start pumping out supplies to meet the moment.
Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS – Jul 15 2025
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PARIS ANNOUNCES MAJOR INCREASE TO MILITARY SPENDING
French President Emmanuel Macron announced last week that he intends to double his country’s military budget by 2027—a decade after he rose to power, when the country was spending $37.40 billion a year on defense.
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FOOD INSECURITY AMONG AMERICAN ADULTS DOUBLES SINCE 2021
A newly released survey found that 15.6 percent of American adults experienced food insecurity in May, which is double the amount compared to 2021, and highlights the widening wealth gap in the country.
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ONE BIG CLUB: U.K.’S FORMER PM LANDS JOB WITH GOLDMAN SACHS
Rishi Sunak, the former British prime minister, will return to Goldman Sachs as a senior adviser, where he will help guide the firm’s clients on economic and geopolitical issues, according to the Financial Times.
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WESTERN GOVERNMENTS CRACK DOWN ON ‘FREE SPEECH’ DURING THE RISE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Western governments are attempting to control the public’s speech by closely monitoring social media posts in opposition to the approved narrative and are doling out longer jail sentences for these offenses than for some violent crimes.
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MORE WARMONGERING NONSENSE: ROTTERDAM PREPARES FOR LARGE-SCALE WAR BETWEEN THE WEST AND RUSSIA
Officials (Official pieces of shit) at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the largest port in Europe, are considering what upgrades need to occur if a major war breaks out between the West and Russia, according to a report.
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MERZ SAYS THERE IS ‘NO DOUBT’ THAT ISRAEL WAS JUSTIFIED IN ATTACKING IRAN
German warmonger, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said last week that Israel was completely justified in carrying out its sneak attack against Iran last month and said it could be argued that Tel Aviv “has been attacked almost daily for years and has the right to defend itself militarily.”
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RUSSIA LAUNCHES BIGGEST DRONE ATTACK SINCE START OF THE WAR AFTER TRUMP SAID PUTIN MAY BE THROWING ‘BULLSHIT’
Russia carried out its largest drone attack on Ukraine since the start of the war just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would provide Kyiv with “defensive” weapons and criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for throwing a lot of “bullshit” during ceasefire talks.
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MERZ SAYS RUSSIA SHOULD PAY FOR UKRAINE RECONSTRUCTION, MOSCOW RESPONDS
Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, said last week that Russia inflicted about $540 billion worth of damage inside Ukraine since the war started on 24 February 2022, and it should be Moscow that pays for the rebuild, an idea that was mocked by the Kremlin.
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ANOTHER TRUMP ABOUT-FACE: ZELENSKY SAYS U.S. RESUMES SHIPMENTS OF WEAPONS AFTER BULLSHIT PAUSE
The Trump administration rejected claims that it paused the shipment of weapons to Ukraine and insisted that these deliveries were just slowed while it was taking inventory of particular weapons—showing President Donald Trump’s White House is just as committed to keeping the war going as his predecessor’s.