During a wide-ranging 90-minute speech to the US congress of March 4, Donald Trump revisited his determination to “get” Greenland “one way or the other”. Trump said his country needed Greenland “for national security”. While he…
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Europe must trim its welfare state to build a warfare state
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In that rare thing, an Angela Merkel statement that aged well, the long-serving German chancellor worried that Europe accounted…
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European leaders brace for their ‘5-minutes-to-midnight’ nightmare summit – POLITICO
The commission is proposing to loosen EU spending rules to allow governments to boost their military. According to von der Leyen, allowing countries to increase defense spending equivalent to 1.5 percent of gross domestic product over four…
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Europe’s leaders hold Ukraine talks at ‘turning point in history’
EU leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday for a special council on defence, as France’s President Emmanuel Macron warned that the continent was at a “turning point of history”.
As well as rearmament, leaders are expected to discuss how the body…
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Briton captured while fighting for Ukraine jailed in Russia
A statement released by the Russian court claimed Mr Anderson had pleaded guilty but this cannot be verified, as he has not been heard from independently since he was taken.
On Wednesday, a Russian military court ruled that Mr Anderson would spend…
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Von der Leyen’s ‘Rearm Europe’ plan and the holes in it
European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen’s new plan to “Rearm Europe” included close to no fresh money and left the burden of finding the real cash on member states’ shoulders.
Von der Leyen said on Tuesday morning that the EU…
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Russian warship tracked near British waters by Royal Navy
The Royal Navy has released images of a Russian warship which it tracked sailing near British waters.
The corvette Boikiy was part of a task group which was tracked by HMS Somerset for three days as it made its way through the English Channel and…
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How Kyiv Can Persist in the Face of a Hostile Washington
Last week, the world witnessed a contentious, on-camera Oval Office confrontation between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, U.S. President Donald Trump, and U.S. Vice President JD Vance. What began as a relatively standard exchange quickly…
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the world according to Putin and Trump
What does an ideal world look like for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump? In a word: ugly.
Trump’s embrace of Russia’s dictator, his bullying of a weakened Ukraine, his musings about new US…
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Europe has the resources to defend itself and back Ukraine against Russia
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled an unprecedented $840 billion plan to increase EU defense spending…
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