The chicken hawks in the U.S. Senate last week easily approved a resolution to add Sweden and Finland to NATO, with Sen. Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, saying, “If any senator is looking for a defensible excuse to vote no, I wish him good luck.” The Trends Journal has long noted that the one bonding glue in...
Russia said last week that it has unambiguous proof that the U.S. has taken on an active role in Ukraine by providing Ukrainian forces with “real-time” information on how to best counter Russian forces. The evidence was dropped during an interview between a British newspaper and a top intelligence officer from Ukraine. Maj. Gen. Vadym...
The White House announced on Monday that it will send another $550 million in weapons to Kyiv that will mostly include ammunition for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS). The latest round of weapons brings the U.S.’s total military support to more than $8 billion. The U.S. has also sent roughly $54 billion in...
Staying on its war path, but making it pretty, the self-anointed “Paper of Record” The New York Times posted an article last week titled, “U.S. Military Coordinates a Sort of Wedding Registry for Arms to Ukraine.” It was written by Eric Schmitt, a top hack reporter at the paper who won a Pulitzer Prize. Yes,...
After Russia invaded Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden said the sanctions he imposed on Moscow were “the broadest sanctions in history,” and that “Russia will pay a serious price.” Getting even for the broad range of U.S./NATO sanctions imposed upon them Russia, as we have reported, has begun to cut off gas and oil flows...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged his country’s eight-year conflict in the Donbas between Russian separatists that resulted in the death of over 14,000 people, which Russian President Vladimir Putin cited before the February invasion. Ukraine and Russia are divided over who was at fault during the years-long conflict in the eastern region of the country....
The European Union is getting ready for life without Russian gas flows before the fall and winter months when there is a threat of a shortage. Russia used to provide the EU with about 40 percent of its gas, but has since cut the flow by 60 percent, the Financial Times reported. The paper said...
A former top U.S. general said last week that Ukrainian fighters could end up pushing Russian troops back to the border in 2023 by winning the war of attrition because Moscow’s forces are “exhausted” and they “don’t have much else they can do right now.” Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges told Business Insider that he believes Ukrainian forces...
President Joe Biden said last week during a visit to Israel that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine must be a “strategic failure” for his counterpart Vladimir Putin. “Putin’s assault on Ukraine is a challenge to the peace and stability everywhere in the world,” Biden said last week after a meeting with Yair Lapid, the Israeli Prime...
Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat, said last week that Moscow is willing to discuss the safe export of grain with Ukraine and Turkey, but said Kyiv needs to make sure the ports are no longer blocked with mines. Lavrov, who made the comment while attending the G20 in Bali, did not give a clear date...