A group of Western countries issued a report last week that said North Korea has been arming the Russians with ballistic missiles and troops amid Moscow’s war with Kyiv in violation of UN resolutions that has helped Moscow “increase its missile attacks against Ukrainian cities, including targeted strikes on critical civilian infrastructure.”
John Healey, the British defense secretary, said Sunday that London will spend at least £3 billion on its long-range weapons that he said is a clear “message to Moscow.”
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants to ramp up pressure against European countries who disagree with the bloc’s anti-Russia policy and announced last week that Berlin could support Slovakia and Hungary losing European Union funding if they continue refusing the bloc’s sanction policy against Russia over its war in Ukraine.
Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat, said last week that Germany is “now directly engaging” in war against Russia after recent comments from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz about lifting limits on long-range weapons for Ukraine, and promising to help Kyiv ramp up production of weapons that threaten the Russian state.
Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, said last week that Ottawa plans to join the European Union’s rearmament plan in the face of what he sees as a threat from Russia and an unreliable partner to his south.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Berlin last week and the two spoke about how Germany plans to help Kyiv ramp up its war against Russia by pumping Ukraine with €5 billion in new weapons while forming a joint effort to produce long-range weapons.
Even while the Israeli government ramps up its massacres in Gaza—nearly 16 months since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Tel Aviv is “plausibly” committing genocide—Berlin has done nothing to distance itself from Israel, and continues to “celebrate” their “unshakeable friendship,” according to a report in WSWS.
U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly told European allies that Russia and Ukraine will have to sort out their problems on their own after failed attempts to strike a deal to end the war that has been raging for over three years.
The Chinese military is prepared to launch its new drone “mothership” that can launch 100 UAVs at a time, which has been called a game changer in military aviation.
Last week, London signed a $4.6 billion deal to hand over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while announcing a deal that will allow the U.K. to lease the strategic air base on Diego Garcia for £101m a year for “at least the next century,” which is also used by the U.S.