Moscow and Beijing called for an emergency meeting last week at the UN Security Council to voice their collective outrage about the Biden administration’s decision to bomb Iraq and Syria in retaliation to recent attacks on American bases in the region.
The Biden administration’s decision to re-designate Yemen’s Houthis as a terror organization for defending Gazans against the Israeli genocide means a peace deal between Sana’a and Saudi Arabia is unlikely.
Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent ambassador to the UN, said last week that the U.S.’s decision to bomb Iraq and Syria was “illegitimate, illegal, unjustified, and blatantly violates the basic norms and principles of international law.”
The repeated U.S. airstrikes in Iraq “compels” Baghdad to speed up the process of terminating the mission of the American coalition in the country that has been on the ropes in recent months anyway.
Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal last week—before a visit to Washington—warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin could emerge victorious in Ukraine if the West does not stay united in its support.
A U.S.-escorted convoy of 60 tankers stole oil from U.S.-occupied territory in Syria and was seen headed towards U.S. bases in northern Iraq, SANA, the Syrian news outlet, reported.
The 27-bloc European Union announced the approval last week of $54 billion for Ukraine to help prop up its beleaguered economy for the next four years as it navigates continued war with Russia.
Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, addressed The Atlantic Festival eight days before the 7 October Hamas attack in Israel and spoke glowingly about the Middle East region.
In an obvious attempt to get the American public to get even more suspicious of the Chinese, Christopher Wray, the FBI director, said last week that hackers from the country are preparing a massive attack on U.S. infrastructure.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that his forces will have to seize more Ukrainian land because of the ongoing threat of long-range missiles that have been provided by the West.