Australia announced last week that it will look to bolster its defenses to respond to “the most threatening strategic landscape” it has seen in decades, with an A$25 billion ($16.5 billion) investment in its military, with a focus on autonomous weaponry.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung announced last week that Seoul will increase its military spending by 8.2 percent in 2026 to become more self-sufficient in the face of new threats to the country’s “peace and prosperity.”
The Danish Defense Intelligence Service announced last week that it appears the Kremlin is attempting to carry out the beginnings of “hybrid warfare” with Copenhagen after recent drone sightings across the country that have been blamed on Russia.
Russia announced last week that it has plans in place to retaliate if the EU goes through with plans to essentially steal $164 billion in frozen Russian assets to help fund Ukraine’s war.
Nuclear experts have raised the alarm about the deteriorating situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) which has gone nearly two weeks without external power and has been running on diesel generators that are not designed for long-term use, raising fears of a Chernobyl-like disaster. “It’s a risky situation because emergency generators are big......
The Trump administration agreed to provide the Ukrainian military with intelligence to be used in its long-range missile attacks on soft targets within Russia, in the latest escalation by Washington.
Ukrainian and Western officials told the Financial Times last week that it has become evident that Russia has made changes to its ballistic missiles that allowed Moscow to evade even the vaunted U.S. Patriot missile systems.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz last week said he is in favor of the EU essentially stealing $164 billion in frozen Russian assets to help fund Ukraine’s war and argued in an op-ed for the Financial Times that there needs to be a “new impetus to change Russia’s calculations.”
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s national security council, issued a warning to Kyiv and the U.S. on, Wednesday just as U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his war rhetoric against Moscow and Pete Hegseth, the Fox News clown playing the role of secretary of defense, called for an urgent meeting with generals.
The near-constant attack by Ukrainian drones on Russia’s energy infrastructure has resulted in a decline of more than 1.1 million barrels a day in refining capacity, or 17 percent, and if the trend continues, the rate could fall to its 2020 low.