A year after The Hague’s historic spending pledge, the alliance met in Turkey to audit itself. The results read like two different alliances
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On June 17, a bus carrying children from a football team and a dance studio in the Belarusian city of Rechytsa was struck by a drone in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast.
In a dramatic escalation of geopolitical rhetoric, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service — the SVR, successor to the legendary KGB — has lobbed one of the most incendiary accusations of the post-Cold War era directly at the heart of Europe.
As the conflict in Ukraine enters yet another grueling chapter, a difficult and uncomfortable conversation is growing louder in diplomatic circles, military analysis centers, and the corridors of Western governments: Is Russia winning this war?
Sisi spoke in Cairo on Monday in the name of humanity and in the name of peace-loving people. Whether Trump will respond to that appeal, or whether the American president will continue to escalate toward the obliteration of the very infrastructure whose disruption is already causing a global crisis, remains to be seen.
Fifteen hours after the first bombs struck western Tehran, the Middle East stands at a precipice shaped by three competing bets. The facts are still emerging, and the smoke has not cleared.
Several explosions were heard in the center of Tehran after Israel announced it had launched a missile attack on Iran. US sources say the US is also involved in the conflict. Donald Trump confirmed the attack. “The terrorist regime cannot have nuclear weapons,” he said.
The U.S. has amassed a significant fleet in the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and Gulf of Oman. These forces nearly encircle the Arabian Peninsula.