The Chinese government showcased some of its most advanced weapons last week during a military parade that was attended by President Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un, and Washington should take note: the Pentagon would get smashed in a conventional war against Beijing over Taiwan, as we have long said.
Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, announced last week that the so-called “Coalition of the Willing” will provide Ukraine with additional long-range missiles in response to new Russian strikes across the country, all while peace talks between Moscow and Washington have stalled.
Governments across Europe are holding out hope that their effort to spend billions of dollars on new weapons production over the perceived threat of war with Russia will result in an economic boom.
Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, made no indication that he would be bullied into submission by the Trump administration for buying discounted Russian oil, despite U.S. tariffs, and last week even went so far as to praise his relationship with Moscow.
A Turkish court determined last week that the outcome of the 2023 Istanbul provincial congress election should be annulled over shady cash payments, which was seen as a win for Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan because the ousted leader was the head of the main opposition party.
Deadly protests have broken out across Indonesia as the country’s population—suffering under the strain of economic hardships, despite the country’s financial gains—expresses anger over what they see as a widening level of inequality.
Ray Dalio, the hedge fund billionaire, said in an interview with the Financial Times last week that the U.S. under President Donald Trump, and considering the wealth gap in the country, is “analogous to what happened around the world in the 1930-40 period.”
Mark Rutte, the arrogant “Son of Rut” (i.e. son of a rat) who was the longest-serving prime minister in Dutch history and now the NATO secretary general, told reporters last week that Russia and China are preparing their militaries and domestic weapons production for a “long-term confrontation” because they are “producing weapons and heavy military equipment at a remarkable, staggering rate,” according to Bloomberg.
Mike Huckabee, the evangelical pro-genocide extremist playing the role of U.S. ambassador to Israel, said in an interview on Friday that the Zionist Trump administration would not stand in the way when Israel moves to annex the West Bank, despite international law.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a security cabinet meeting last week that U.S. President Donald Trump encouraged him to go all out in Gaza and to avoid seeking “partial deals” with Hamas to receive some of the remaining 50 hostages—20 of whom are believed to be alive—still inside the enclave.