Leaders from Latvia and Lithuania increased their tough talk against Russia last week when they urged Western countries struggling under record levels of inflation to remain focused on the task of defeating Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. “Our goal must be for Putin to lose the war,” Krišjânis Karinš, the prime minister of Latvia,...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that his country will ultimately prevail in its war against Russia despite losing territory to Russian forces and separatists in the eastern part of Ukraine. “We are definitely going to prevail in this war that Russia has started,” he said. “It is on the battlefields and Ukraine that the...
Ukrainian leaders on Saturday took issue with President Joe Biden after their chief investor told guests at a Los Angeles fundraiser that he warned Kyiv about Russia’s invasion plan but President Volodymyr Zelensky didn’t want to hear it. Mykailo Podolia, an adviser for Zelensky, said in an interview with the BBC that it “is absurd...
Former President Barack Obama said Friday that there is no question that the Ukraine War is going to continue to drag on; he didn’t know who would win. Barack Obama—The Nobel Peace Prize winner who launched the Afghan “troop surge,” was instrumental in launching/supporting the Syrian, Libyan, and Yemen wars—and is quoted in the book...
A top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview last week that it was incumbent upon Western countries to seize Russia’s wealth to pay for the billions in damage inflicted on the country due to the Russian invasion. “The whole world needs to work on [confiscating] Russia’s assets,” Rostyslav Shurma, the deputy...
Six years ago, back in April 2016, the Trends Journal reported that U.S. European Commander chief and Supreme NATO Commander Air Force General Philip Breedlove was stepping down after enthusiastically overseeing a level of military confrontation between the U.S., its NATO allies and Russia unprecedented even during the darkest days of the Cold War. To...
Denmark held a vote last week that resulted in the country rejoining the EU’s Common Security and Defense Policy in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The vote was seen as largely symbolic, but means Copenhagen will work closer with its European neighbors to ensure the bloc’s defenses are strong in the face of emerging...
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former president of Brazil who is leading in the polls in this year’s election, came out strongly, again, against the U.S. intervention in Ukraine. Lula, who is enjoying a 21-point lead over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, questioned the U.S.’s judgment after Washington poured $40 billion in weapons into Ukraine while...
The Daily Star, the British tabloid, accused a Russian news outlet of promoting propaganda when it reported that Moscow is no longer interested in just Ukraine and is looking to demilitarize all of NATO, which means WWIII. The report pointed to Olga Skabeyeva, “of Putin mouthpiece Rossiya-1,” who said the historic amount of weapons transfers from...
The British Foreign Office announced that it will send Ukraine advanced rocket launchers that can strike targets up to 50 miles away to assist Kyiv in its ongoing battle for the eastern region of the country. The move, announced Wednesday, came shortly after U.S. President Joe Biden agreed to send the American version of the...