Protests accompanied by massive strikes have broken out across Europe over new domestic austerity measures during a massive military buildup over what governments have been selling as the threat of war against Russia.
Tag: geopolitics
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AS FORECAST: GEN Z PROTEST WIDENS, MEXICO THE LATEST COUNTRY ENSNARED
Gen Z protesters played a central role on Saturday in protests that broke out across Mexico to reject the government’s lackluster effort to crack down on crime and corruption inside the country.
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RUSSIA, UKRAINE CONTINUE TO STRIKE EACH OTHER’S ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE AS WINTER LOOMS
Russia carried out its biggest attack on Kyiv since the start of the war, launching 430 drones and 18 missiles into the capital, which prompted the Ukrainians to launch missiles into Russia.
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ZELENSKY TRIES TO SURVIVE WARTIME CORRUPTION SCANDAL
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was forced on the defensive last week after the announcement of a corruption investigation focused on his inner circle that involves a $100 million kickback scandal.
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SCARE TACTICS: ZELENSKY SAYS RUSSIA IS PREPARING FOR ‘BIG WAR’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that Russia has been ramping up its weapons production to levels that make it seem that the Kremlin has no intention of stopping in Ukraine and is, in fact, girding for a wider war against Europe.
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RUTTE WARNS THAT NATO MUST PREPARE FOR A LONG-TERM CONFRONTATION WITH RUSSIA
Mark Rutte, the head of NATO, told a conference in Bucharest last week that the collective West needs to be prepared for a long-term confrontation with Russia and other countries that are not compliant with the current rules-based order that is dictated by Washington and Brussels.
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AS FORECAST: UKRAINE FORCED TO CUT POWER AS RUSSIA INTENSIFIES STRIKES ON ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE
Ukraine’s state electricity transmission company announced Sunday that Russian attacks on energy infrastructure have left power-generating capacity inside the country at zero, and it was compelled to cut off power across most areas inside the country for up to 16 hours.
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RUSSIA’S NEW ‘DUMB BOMBS’ AIM TO WREAK HAVOC ON UKRAINE’S ALREADY DEPLETED AIR DEFENSES
The Russian military has been employing retrofitted Soviet-era glide bombs that have managed to strike targets far from the frontlines—including some that have been refitted with jet engines that enable even farther travel, according to a report in the Financial Times.
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PUTIN WARNS THAT HE COULD TEST NUKES IN RESPONSE TO TRUMP’S THREAT
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military to put plans into place to carry out nuclear tests in response to President Donald Trump’s earlier decision to tell the Pentagon to begin testing these weapons.
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UKRAINE RAMPS UP ATTACKS ON RUSSIAN INFRASTRUCTURE AS TROOPS STRUGGLE IN POKROVSK
The Ukrainian military last week continued to attack Russian industrial facilities in an effort to destroy the country’s wartime economy, even as its soldiers were losing their foothold in Pokrovsk, the strategic city which The Wall Street Journal called the Kremlin’s “biggest Ukrainian conquest in more than two years.”