Belgium’s Foreign Ministry produced a strategic document that was leaked to the Financial Times last week that identified the United States as an unreliable partner and recommends recalibrating the relationship and seek alternative partners.
Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS – Sep 29 2026
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GERMAN WAR MACHINE: GERMANY WANTS EUROPE TO BE ABLE TO PRODUCE PATRIOT MISSILES
Boris Pistorius, the German defense minister, is trying to convince the Trump administration to allow European countries to produce Patriot air defense missiles, citing the risks of a wider war with Russia and to keep up with demand in Ukraine.
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RAMPING UP THE WAR: DENMARK WARNS THAT RUSSIA COULD ATTACK A NATO MEMBER WITHIN MONTHS
The Danish defense intelligence service issued a report last week that said Russia could launch a military attack on a NATO ally within the next few months, which was seen as one of the most urgent warnings since the start of the war in February 2022.
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POPE LEO AGREES WITH THE TRENDS JOURNAL: THE UN = THE UNITED NOTHINGS
Pope Leo visited a UN facility in France last week and talked about the risks of the world body becoming irrelevant because diplomacy is dying and is being replaced by the law of the jungle.
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RUSSIA RESPONDS TO UKRAINE’S INFRASTRUCTURE ATTACKS BY TARGETING KYIV’S ECONOMY
Russia has been carrying out new strikes across Ukraine that have been painful for Ukrainian consumers, who, for the first time in years, have seen supermarket shelves empty and a wide range of products either in limited production or no longer being produced, according to a report last week in the Financial Times.
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RUSSIA’S ANCHORAGE SUMMIT DEMANDS TO END WAR ARE NO LONGER BEING CONSIDERED, ZELENSKY SAYS
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that Kyiv is no longer considering the demands Russia laid out during the 2025 Anchorage summit at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, because he claims his forces are “currently in control of the situation on the battlefield.”