Russia last week announced a major new energy cooperation deal with India that threatens the very core of the U.S.'s fightback strategy against Beijing's and Moscow's expansionism in the Middle East and beyond.
A combination of Russia's inactive Nord Stream 2 pipeline and cooler weather forecast through the end of December sparked a rally in European natural gas futures.
As the conflict between the US and Russia over Ukraine threatens to erupt into a hot war, and neocons on both sides of the US political spectrum exhort Biden to get tough on Russia,
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Either the U.S. and NATO provide us with "legal guarantees" that Ukraine will never join NATO or become a base for weapons that can threaten Russia – or we will go in and guarantee it ourselves.
An ultimately very healthy but in the meantime very unpleasant realization is gradually dawning in West--an insight that is simply shocking, that fundamentally alters their picture of the world:
Either the U.S. and NATO provide us with "legal guarantees" that Ukraine will never join NATO or become a base for weapons that can threaten Russia -- or we will go in and guarantee it ourselves.
It's clear the Sino-Russian entente is expanding under the pressure of US threats to both. Nothing will happen on either Taiwan or Ukraine without coordination between Beijing and Moscow.
When the head of the Pentagon Space Command, General Jay Raymond, warned last year that two Russian satellites in orbit had been stalking an American spy satellite above the earth, it was not clear if the satellites were capable of attacking an Ameri
Russia starts full-scale production of its 'unstoppable' 6,670mph Zircon hypersonic missile as Moscow boasts it has capability to evade all Western defences
Belarusian autocrat Alexander Lukashenko has cleared out the encampment at his border crossing into Poland, where thousands of Middle Eastern migrants had been living in squalor.
President Biden's approval numbers are dropping like lead. According to a Quinnipiac University poll released last week, only 36 percent of Americans approve of Biden's performance as president.