Colombia and Peru held recent national elections that saw candidates closely aligned with President Donald Trump win office, which WSWS noted became the latest countries in Latin America to fall into the ‘far-right’ camp with Washington.
Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS – Jul 7 2026
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GRIM MILESTONE: TWO MILLION KILLED IN WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE
A Washington think tank published a study last week that said at least two million Russian and Ukrainian troops have been killed in the Ukraine War that started in February 2022 and shows no end in sight.
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MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX REWARDS: SAAB SIGNS FIGHTER JET DEAL WITH KYIV
Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, announced last week that his country signed a $2.54 billion deal with Saab, the Swedish defense manufacturer, to produce 16 Gripen E fighters for its military, which are expected to be delivered beginning in 2027.
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RUTTE: NATO’S SPENDING BIG ON DEFENSE, AND U.S. COMPANIES ARE BENEFITING
Mark Rutte, the Head of NATO, said in an interview last week with the Financial Times that companies in the U.S. have been benefiting financially from Europe’s rearmament and that there was a “total order book now of $300 billion outstanding of European and Canadian sales from the U.S. over the next couple of years” that supports nearly 200,000 jobs in the country.
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UKRAINE WAR MUST GO ON: NATO EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE ‘IRONCLAD COMMITMENT’ TO ARTICLE 5 DURING SUMMIT
President Donald Trump is expected to join NATO members during a summit this week in Ankara and confirm Washington’s commitment to Article 5 of the alliance’s mandate, which loosely means that an attack on one member is an attack on all.