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LITTLE LITHUANIA KEEPS PUSHING FOR WWIII, INSISTS THAT UKRAINE GETS A NATO INVITE
Lithuania, the tiny Baltic state with a population of about 2.8 million, told Politico in an interview last week that it will never stop pushing for Ukraine to join NATO, which Russia has identified as its brightest red line.
PUTIN’S CONDITION FOR PEACE IS THE ROLL BACK OF NATO’S BORDER FROM RUSSIA
By Paul Craig Roberts The latest news on the war front serves to introduce today’s column: The Ever-Widening War With Putin focused on useless “peace talks,” Ukraine (or Washington or NATO) attacked four Russian Air Force bases and destroyed a number of strategic Russian bombers. The BBC reports: “In an operation said to have taken......
TRUMP SIGNALS RETREAT FROM DIPLOMACY TO END UKRAINE WAR
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.
TRUMP ENVOY REVEALS NATO TROOP DEPLOYMENT PLANS FOR UKRAINE
I have been wondering if the Trump regime’s peace negotiations are sincere. The plan revealed by Trump’s envoy Keith Kellogg indicates that the negotiations are not sincere.
PRIVATE EQUITY READY TO FUND EUROPE’S REARMAMENT
As the U.S. has indicated it will scale back its military defense of Europe, the continent’s capitals are preparing to spend billions to expand their own defense capacities and take a larger role in supporting the Ukraine War and selling the line to the public that if Russia is not defeated they will invade Europe.
NORDIC COUNTRIES SHOW EUROPE HOW TO GO FROM PEACE-LOVING TO WAR-LOVING
Countries in the northern reaches of Europe are being looked at as examples of how once peace-loving countries can become militarized amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.
TRUMP’S DECISION TO RECOGNIZE CRIMEA AS PART OF RUSSIA TESTS EUROPEAN LEADERS
U.S. President Donald Trump has tried to sweeten a peace deal for Russia to end its war in Ukraine by—among other concessions—agreeing to officially recognize Crimea as part of Russia, which is a particularly tough pill to swallow for European leaders who see it as a capitulation by the administration.
A RE-MILITARIZING EUROPE LOSES ITS “PEACE DIVIDEND”
As Europe prepares to spend trillions of euros more to arm itself, it loses the “peace dividend” it has been banking since the Cold War ended 35 years ago.
SO FAR, TRUMP STRATEGY WEAKENS U.S., BOOSTS EUROPE
U.S. investors greeted Donald Trump’s re-election with joy, anticipating tax cuts, fewer regulations, and soaring profits. Stock prices climbed even further beyond the value of companies’ future earnings. The difference between stock prices and the price of government bonds widened to its greatest in 20 years.