Eurasia

Lithuania: Ready To Send Lethal Weapons To Support Ukraine

Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said that Lithuania is ready to support Ukraine, including supplying weapons. On Sunday, Arvydas Anusauskas, Lithuania’s Defence Minister, decreed that they were ready to supply Ukraine with any weapons as support to the country. The Defense Minister exposed that only when the victims have the means …

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Cuba To Inaugurate New Floating Power Plant

This Turkish plant is moored in the bay of Havana and will provide about 130 megawatts to the national electric system, to which it was connected through the Melones substation. Energy Minister Livan Arronde announced that a new floating power plant arrived in Cuba on November 18 and will come …

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Navy Sends Iran and China A Message With High Energy Laser Test In Gulf Of Aden

A press release from 5th Fleet Public Affairs(NAVCENT) gave a dry report of the USS Portland testing a high-energy laser weapon system while underway in the Gulf of Aden; “During the demonstration, the Solid State Laser – Technology Maturation Laser Weapons System Demonstrator (LWSD) Mark 2 MOD 0 aboard Portland …

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Joe Biden and NATO Ally Don’t Want Their Own Troops Reining in Russia on Ukraine

President Joe Biden and a key U.S. ally have both rejected the idea of using their respective country’s troops to rein in Russia, as tens of thousands of President Vladimir Putin‘s troops amass at the country’s border with Ukraine. British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace appeared to rule out deploying troops …

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L’Europa e Putin: il grande gioco del gas

Nord Stream 2: il nuovo governo tedesco, prima Baerbock, poi Scholz e infine Habeck, hanno ripetuto che il gasdotto non può diventare operativo perché non rispetta le regole della concorrenza vigenti nell’Ue E se fossero i funzionari di Bruxelles e Berlino, con la benevola negligenza del governo tedesco, a dare …

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Afinal o que quer Putin?

O Kremlin quer respostas rápidas às suas exigências sabendo que Putin colocou muito alto a fasquia, o que tornará as conversações morosas e difíceis. E ele jamais está disposto a fazer figura de fraco As propostas feitas por Vladimir Putin para normalizar as relações com a NATO e os Estados …

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The Persistence of Borders in a Globalized World

Back in 1990, when the Soviet bloc was crumbling into new nations, Kenichi Ohmae, a Japanese organizational theorist and management consultant, had the audacity to suggest that humankind was on the cusp of a new “borderless world,” in a book of the same name. Ohmae’s goal was mainly to sketch …

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Country Reports on Terrorism 2020

Country Reports on Terrorism 2020 is submitted in compliance with Title 22 of the United States Code, Section 2656f (the “Act”), which requires the Department of State to provide to Congress a full and complete annual report on terrorism for those countries and groups meeting the criteria of the Act. …

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Russia broadens security demands from West, seeking to curb U.S. and NATO influence on borders

Russia on Friday spelled out its demands for sweeping new security guarantees from the United States and NATO, seeking pledges that would halt NATO’s eastward expansion and block U.S. military ties with former Soviet states. The central tenets of Russia’s “sphere of influence” doctrine — including demands for an effective …

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Russia’s Proposal To Redraw European Security ‘Unacceptable,’ U.S. Says

Russia has published a wish list of agreements it wants to negotiate with the United States, as Moscow seeks to fundamentally alter the post-Cold War security architecture in Europe. The proposals, laid out on December 17 by the Russian Foreign Ministry, call for an end to NATO’s eastward expansion and …

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