A Washington think tank published a study last week that said at least two million Russian and Ukrainian troops have been killed in the Ukraine War that started in February 2022 and shows no end in sight.
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MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX REWARDS: SAAB SIGNS FIGHTER JET DEAL WITH KYIV
Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, announced last week that his country signed a $2.54 billion deal with Saab, the Swedish defense manufacturer, to produce 16 Gripen E fighters for its military, which are expected to be delivered beginning in 2027.
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RUTTE: NATO’S SPENDING BIG ON DEFENSE, AND U.S. COMPANIES ARE BENEFITING
Mark Rutte, the Head of NATO, said in an interview last week with the Financial Times that companies in the U.S. have been benefiting financially from Europe’s rearmament and that there was a “total order book now of $300 billion outstanding of European and Canadian sales from the U.S. over the next couple of years” that supports nearly 200,000 jobs in the country.
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UKRAINE WAR MUST GO ON: NATO EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE ‘IRONCLAD COMMITMENT’ TO ARTICLE 5 DURING SUMMIT
President Donald Trump is expected to join NATO members during a summit this week in Ankara and confirm Washington’s commitment to Article 5 of the alliance’s mandate, which loosely means that an attack on one member is an attack on all.
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GEN Z REVOLUTION: KENYA’S GOVERNMENT LOCKS DOWN CITY TO STOP PROTESTS
Kenyan President William Ruto’s government last week ordered sections of Nairobi, the country’s capital, to be locked down in hopes of stopping Gen Z protests.
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NATO BOSS CONTRADICTS TRUMP, SAYS ALLIANCE MEMBERS LET U.S. USE THEIR BASES DURING WAR ON IRAN
Mark Rutte, the secretary-general of NATO, said last week that alliance members helped the U.S. carry out its illegal war of aggression against Iran by allowing the Pentagon to use military bases across Europe, despite President Donald Trump’s claims that Washington was abandoned by the military alliance during the war. The Financial Times, citing an......
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TACO TRUMP PRAISES UKRAINE’S ‘ENTHUSIASTIC’ STRIKES ON SOFT TARGETS IN RUSSIA, PROVING TO MOSCOW THAT THE WHITE HOUSE MUST NOT BE TRUSTED
President Donald Trump said in a summit in France earlier this month that he was impressed by Ukraine’s ability to inflict damage on soft targets in Russia, which prompted the Kremlin to wonder how sincere the White House is about ending the war, according to a report.
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DEFENSE TECH STARTUPS HAVE RAISED OVER $12 BILLION IN VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDING SINCE START OF YEAR: REPORT
The Iran and Ukraine wars have been beneficial to startups in the defense-tech sector that have benefited from $12.3 billion from venture capital firms since the start of the year, which the Financial Times noted eclipsed the $9.95 billion raised all last year.
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CRIMEA DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY AFTER RENEWED AIR ATTACKS FROM UKRAINE
Crimea declared a state of emergency last week after suffering weeks of drone and missile strikes carried out by the Ukrainian military, which appeared to be opening a new front in the war and is seen as a potential Russian vulnerability.
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UKRAINE RAMPING UP ATTACKS ON RUSSIAN ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE
Ukraine has been carrying out attacks on Russian energy infrastructure across the country, and the level of disruption “is unprecedented in the history of the Russia-Ukraine” war, the International Energy Agency said, according to a report Monday in The Wall Street Journal.