German Chancellor Friedrick Merz addressed an audience in Düsseldorf last week and said while Berlin is not technically at war, it should be noted that the country is also “no longer at peace either,” which WSWS said is essentially a “declaration of war.”
Australia announced last week that it will look to bolster its defenses to respond to “the most threatening strategic landscape” it has seen in decades, with an A$25 billion ($16.5 billion) investment in its military, with a focus on autonomous weaponry.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung announced last week that Seoul will increase its military spending by 8.2 percent in 2026 to become more self-sufficient in the face of new threats to the country’s “peace and prosperity.”
The Danish Defense Intelligence Service announced last week that it appears the Kremlin is attempting to carry out the beginnings of “hybrid warfare” with Copenhagen after recent drone sightings across the country that have been blamed on Russia.
Russia announced last week that it has plans in place to retaliate if the EU goes through with plans to essentially steal $164 billion in frozen Russian assets to help fund Ukraine’s war.
Nuclear experts have raised the alarm about the deteriorating situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) which has gone nearly two weeks without external power and has been running on diesel generators that are not designed for long-term use, raising fears of a Chernobyl-like disaster. “It’s a risky situation because emergency generators are big......
The Trump administration agreed to provide the Ukrainian military with intelligence to be used in its long-range missile attacks on soft targets within Russia, in the latest escalation by Washington.
Ukrainian and Western officials told the Financial Times last week that it has become evident that Russia has made changes to its ballistic missiles that allowed Moscow to evade even the vaunted U.S. Patriot missile systems.