International arms expert Katarina Djokic tells Gript that Europe has become the biggest arms importing region in the world, and that there is “concern” that weapons left on battlefields from the Ukraine war may end up in the hands of criminal groups.
Zelensky was there, not as a leader in his own right, but as a prop for the Trump show.
How exactly could President Zelenskyy lose a deal, that was already ‘done’ with a man who loves ‘to do deals.’ How the heck did he manage that?
The result might not end up being a display of American strength, but of entirely diminished American relevance.
Western public opinion – or at least the peacenik element of it – is actively incentivising Mr. Putin to break the nuclear taboo.
Increase
And adopting a country, just like a puppy, only to abandon it when you get bored, is a great moral wrong.
Unfair dismissal
The problem is that in the case of the Ukraine war, both sides have reason to think the other might simply collapse.
Having financial interests – once they are disclosed – is not corruption. But it is also not irrelevant.
Pieter Cleppe of the Brussels Report discusses the rise of European conservatism, the economic future of the EU, and who attacked the Nordstream pipeline.
“The situation has intensified.”