A senior U.S. defense official told reporters last week that the Pentagon will bolster its forces in the Persian Gulf by sending F-16 fighters to the region after Washington accused Iran of recent acts of aggression on Western oil tankers in the vital waterway.
The U.S. is considering military options to respond to alleged acts of aggression by Russian fighter pilots over Syria, as tensions between Moscow and Washington keep ramping up.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced last week that Paris will provide Ukraine with its own version of the U.K.’s long-distance Storm Shadow missiles—a move that is seen as a new escalation by the West that could add pressure on Germany and the U.S. to follow suit.
President Joe Biden attended the major NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania last week and his message to current alliance members was that support for Ukraine must not waver no matter the risks.
Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister, called for peace negotiations in Ukraine following the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, that resulted in Kyiv being locked out of the alliance and zero talk of peace negotiations.
President Joe Biden ordered 3,000 U.S. troops to be prepared to be deployed to Europe as the Ukraine War continues to rage.
President Joe Biden told an audience in Finland last week that he disagreed with the analysis that the Ukraine war could last for years in a stalemate—saying Russian President Vladimir Putin will eventually capitulate and seek a negotiated settlement.
Warmongers in Congress—desperate to keep the military-industrial complex happy—rejected amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have imposed restrictions regarding supporting Ukraine's war effort against Russia.
An eminent scientist who took the lead in denouncing the Covid lab leak scenario in 2020, privately said he thought a lab leak was “highly likely.”