While Turkey’s president and foreign minister recently pledged support for the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of former Soviet republics-cum-nations, Ankara continues to flagrantly violate those of no fewer than four other countries. Today the nation’s...
NATO Adds Ukraine and Georgia to Its Eastern Flank
Late last week Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba traveled to Bucharest, Romania to join a meeting of what he called NATO’s Eastern flank: Poland, Romania and Turkey. The Ukrainian foreign minister posted this on his Facebook page: “Greetings from Bucharest....
Biden’s First Trip Outside the Country Will Take Him to NATO Headquarters
White House Press Secretary Jen “Russia will be accountable by the international community” Psaki announced today that her boss, President Joe “I will continue with every fiber in my being to keep America involved with troops that can shoot and kill” Biden, will make...
NATO Chief Issues Appeal to India To Join Global Anti-Chinese, Anti-Russian Alliance
Two days ago an opinion piece by North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg appeared in the influential Times of India, the title of which is Deepening Nato’s dialogue with India: To protect international rules-based order and address shared...
Rules-Based Interplanetary Order: US Space Command Takes Conflict with China and Russia to the Heavens
General James Dickinson, commander of U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM), testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 21 and laid out the purpose, progress and plans of the Pentagon’s latest unified combatant command. SPACECOM in its current avatar was...
Senate Committee Clears $300 Million More in Military Assistance for Ukraine, Including Lethal Weapons
Yesterday the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously advanced a bill to add $300 million more in military aid to Ukraine through 2026. The Ukraine Security Partnership Act will go to the Senate and the House for a vote where there is little question...
After West Builds Up War Hysteria for Weeks, Russian Troops Return to Bases After Drills End
The Russian defense minister confirmed today that troops deployed to the south and west of the country, Crimea and areas east of Ukraine, have completed what were described as surprise combat readiness checks and would return to barracks starting tomorrow. Defense...
NATO Deploys Polish Troops to Turkey for War With Syria
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization announced the deployment of Polish troops to Turkey as part of the military bloc’s six-year Tailored Assurance Measures for Turkey mission instituted to – as NATO described it – protect Turkey from Syria. That measure was taken...
Ukrainian President Says Nation Ready for War, Signs Bill To Call Up Reservists as US and Britain Boost Military Training and Assistance
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who recently donned combat gear to join his government’s troops on the battle line with the Donbass, today addressed the nation in a televised address in which he conjured up the specter of Russian troops on his nation’s eastern...
US Strategic Command Chief Calls for Nuclear Upgrade Aimed at China and Russia
On April 20 Admiral Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee alongside his colleague General James Dickinson, commander of U.S. Space Command SPACECOM), in both open and closed hearings....