U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa reported that the guided-missile destroyer USS Laboon, deployed to the Black Sea on June 11, engaged in passing and communications exercises with two warships assigned to the carrier strike group of the new HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft...
NATO Confirms Direct Role in Mali War
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization reports that the NATO Support and Procurement Agency signed a Framework Technical Agreement with the Takuba Task Force in Mali in Luxembourg on June 9. The task force has been a de facto NATO operation since its inception. The...
Turkey To Upgrade Ukraine’s Navy, Prepare It for NATO
The foreign ministers of Turkey and Ukraine, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Dmytro Kuleba, met during the weekend’s three-day Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey to discuss yet further strengthening bilateral military cooperation. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry disclosed this...
Belarus Must be Prepared To Fight From House to House if Invaded: President
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko hosted a meeting on national defense today as his nation more and more appears to be targeted by the U.S. and NATO for not only economic but actual warfare. The recently-concluded NATO summit issued a document which used the...
NATO’s Post-Summit Mission: Build Global Alliance Against China, Russia
After the one-day NATO summit in Brussels concluded on Monday, the bloc’s general secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, gave an address before members of the Western press corps, answering several questions. His comments consisted of a summary of the results of the summit,...
Erdoğan in the Caucasus: Iran, Russia, Armenia Ignore Threat at Their Own Peril
“I still feel most suspicious of the Talaat Pashas, the Kemals and the Envers who are apparently dreaming of setting up a Moslem state to include the Trans-Caspian region, Transcaucasia with Daghestan, Asia Minor and, it seems, Egypt. One feels this is so, and it...
Creating Enemies: China Reacts to NATO Targeting It
After months of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg mercilessly – tediously – denouncing Russia and China ahead of yesterday’s summit, the communiqué issued after it finally raised China’s ire. Two of the document’s 79 points addressed China. The second was...
Following NATO Summit: Turkey and Azerbaijan Sign Defense, Military Pact in Captured Nagorno-Karabakh City
Immediately after leaving the NATO summit in Brussels, where he met with U.S. President Joe Biden to discuss Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Azerbaijan President İlham Aliyev in the city of Shusha, captured from...
NATO Summit: Confronting China, Russia, and the World
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ended its summit in Brussels on June 14 and issued a communiqué listing achievements since the last summit and a blueprint to take the military bloc to its next one in 2022. The representatives of the thirty-nation alliance also...
The Next Serbia? Belarus Concerned Over NATO’s Threatening Statements.
Yesterday the foreign minister of Belarus, Vladimir Makei, expressed alarm over recent statements by NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg about his nation, ones that were openly hostile and implicitly threatening. He’s quoted by the Belarusian Telegraph Agency...