Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, who has been pushing for the U.S. to intervene in Ukraine’s fight against Russia since the beginning of the war, warned that NATO has five years to prepare for an all-out war with Russia, a claim that Moscow brushed aside.
Grant Shapps, the British defense minister, said the U.K. needs to prepare for war within five years with Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea—the countries that the U.S. has already identified as the new “Axis of Evil.”
Ukrainian drones struck a gas terminal outside Russia’s St. Petersburg on Thursday, prompting Novatek, the natural gas company, to announce it was pausing operations.
Gerald Celente introduces the 9 January 2024 issue of The Trends Journal and warns about the Ukraine and Israel wars, and the direction of the economy.
Washington and Brussels announced last week that they would suspend the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe after Russia announced that it would end its participation.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza gives Russia and China an opportunity to present themselves to much of the world as countries that stand for peace and human rights—while the U.S. finds itself—once again—marred in a conflict thousands of miles away.
Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny said in an interview last week that his forces seem to be stuck in a stalemate, and that he does not expect to see any significant breakthroughs in the near future.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of using Iranian-made drones to target the Khmelnytsky nuclear facility which would dramatically impact the country’s electrical grid before the long winter months.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Xi Jinping, his Chinese counterpart, in China last week and the two expressed interest in building their no-limits partnership and their visions for a “multipolar world” not led by any one country.
Sustained high interest rates, the war in Ukraine, the unraveling of global trade networks, and now the new Mideast war have left the global economy “limping along, not sprinting,” the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in an overview at its annual meeting last week.