Topline Germany will supply Ukraine with heavy battle tanks and greenlight plans for its allies to do the same, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on Wednesday, u-turning after months of international p...
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Leopard 2 Tanks From All Over Europe Are Heading To Ukraine As German Resistance Collapses
Polish army Leopard 2s. Wikimedia Commons Germany on Tuesday not only signed off on Poland’s request to export to Ukraine German-made Leopard 2 tanks—Berlin also will donate its own small batch of the...
The U.K. Is Giving Ukraine Lots of Artillery. Now The British Army Can Get Newer And Better Guns.
A British Army AS-90. Crown Copyright The British Army’s artillery corps was in pretty bad shape before Russia widened its war on Ukraine starting 11 months ago. Its guns and launchers were too few in...
NATO Countries Are Giving Ukraine Hundreds Of Their Old Howitzers—and Replacing Them With South Korea’s Excellent K-9
South Korean marines in a K-9 prepare to return fire after North Korean shells started a blaze behind them during a 2010 skirmish. South Korean defense ministry photo NATO’s eastern and northern membe...
Former FBI Official Accused Of Violating Russia Sanctions To Help Oligarch Oleg Deripaska
Topline A former FBI agent who once led counterintelligence in the bureau’s New York office was charged with money laundering and violating sanctions to benefit Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, prosec...
Doomsday Clock—Measuring Humanity’s Threat Of Self-Annihilation—Updates Tuesday. Here’s What To Know.
Topline The hands of the Doomsday Clock, used by top scientists to use to assess how close humanity is to self-annihilation, will be moved Tuesday for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine and i...
Yellen Sees Success in Extending Russia Price Cap, Despite Risks
(Bloomberg) — US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen expressed confidence that restrictions on Russian sales of crude oil can be expanded to refined petroleum products in February, while acknowledgi...
Germany Okays A Dozen Polish Tanks For Ukraine. Hundreds More Could Follow.
A Polish army Leopard 2. Wikimedia Commons In an important reversal, the German government this weekend signaled it wouldn’t try to stop the government of Poland from supplying German-built Leopard 2 ...
Germany Calls For A Tribunal For Putin’s Crime Of Aggression
On January 16, 2023, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called for the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders for aggression in The Hague. Foreign Minister Baerbock em...
The Russian Helicopters And Missile Systems Iran Might Soon Acquire
Iran expects to receive the first of the 24 Su-35 Flanker-E fighter jets it ordered from Russia as soon as Mar. 21, the Persian New Year. Tehran also claims it has ordered helicopters and missile syst...
The Ukrainian Navy Is Ready To Rescue People Again As Ex-British Helicopters Arrive
A Royal Navy Sea King in 2013. Crown Copyright Just two months after the United Kingdom announced it would donate to Ukraine three ex-Royal Navy Westland Sea King helicopters, the first of the classic...
Biden’s SPR Drawdown Big Win For Beijing
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for a group photo during the … [+] G20 Summit in Osaka in 2019. (Photo by DOMINIQUE JACOVIDES/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via...
The Ukrainian Army’s Fast, Lightly-Armed Stryker Vehicles Are Best At Fighting In Cities
U.S. Army Strykers train in Hawaii in 2012. U.S. Army photo The 90 Stryker armored vehicles the United States has pledged to Ukraine could constitute the main equipment of an entire brigade. That brig...
Why Putin’s War in Ukraine Is Going to Start Hitting Your Wallet
There is more than one way to wage war and Norwegian chemical conglomerate Yara is accusing Russia of weaponizing its spot in the food supply chain as part of its war with Ukraine. The war has caused ...
Ukraine’s New Swedish Howitzer Can Hit The Russians With Three Shells At A Time—And Drive Away Before The Salvo Lands
Archer. Wikimedia Commons In the 11 months since Russia widened its war on Ukraine, Kyiv’s allies have donated a dizzying array of artillery—no fewer than 700 towed and self-propelled howitzers of fou...
Ukrainian Paratroopers Prefer Their Speedy T-80BV Tanks
A Ukrainian 25th Airborne Brigade T-80BV in combat around Kharkiv. Ukrainian army capture Pressure is mounting on the German government to sign off on various European countries’ proposals to donate G...
Why Are Russian War Movies So Awful?
‘Stalingrad’ (2013). Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing The 2013 war movie Stalingrad, directed by Fedor Bondarchuk, is gritty, exciting, romantic and chock full of cutting-edge s...
After Two Incredible Years, U.S. Trade Will Slow, Possibly Until 2025
Silhouettes of onshore oil and gas well in the field outdoors against blue cloudy sky getty U.S. trade growth will be slow to nonexistent for many U.S. airports, seaports and border crossings for the ...
Iran and Russia Consider Issuing Gold-Backed Stablecoin, Officials Unveil – Finance Bitcoin News
Tehran and Moscow are discussing the possible launch of a stablecoin for international settlements, the Russian press revealed. In order to mint the gold-backed currency, however, authorities would ne...
Iran and Russia Jointly Working on Gold-Backed Stablecoin
The two countries shall use this stablecoin to facilitate cross-border transactions and foreign trade between the two. Amid the changing global geopolitical scenario, Iran and Russia have come togethe...
The Ukrainian Army Could Form Three New Heavy Brigades With All These Tanks And Fighting Vehicles It’s Getting
A British Army Challenger 2 tank testing new camouflage back in 2014. Crown copyright A deluge of new armored vehicles should allow the Ukrainian army to form three new, NATO-style heavy brigades. Arg...
Russia Partners with Iran to Build Stablecoin for Cross-border Trades
Russia, and Iran are working together to develop a gold-backed stablecoin. The stablecoin replaces fiat currencies in cross-border transactions. Russia will regulate cryptocurrency transactions in 202...
Iran and Russia to collaborate to issue stablecoin backed by gold
As per reports, the central bank of Iran will be collaborating with the Russian government to jointly issue a new cryptocurrency. The new stablecoin will be backed by Gold. Vedomosti, the ...
Stablecoin Backed By Gold To Be Reportedly Launched By Russia And Iran
To better enable international transactions, the governments of Russia and Iran are reportedly considering working together to develop a new stablecoin. Iran is working with the Russian government to ...
Russia Partners With Iran to Release a Stablecoin Backed by Gold (Report)
The Russian government and the Central Bank of Iran are reportedly mulling a partnership to create a new stablecoin that can facilitate cross-border settlements. The token will be pegged to the valuat...
The U.K. Is Giving Ukraine Hundreds Of Armored Vehicles. Russia Has A Plan For Wrecking Them.
A British Army Challenger 2 tank. Crown copyright The United Kingdom isn’t just sending Ukraine a small batch of surplus Challenger 2 tanks. It’s planning to donate hundreds of armored vehicles and se...
Gold-Backed Stablecoin to be Launched by Iran and Russia
Iran and Russia are exploring the possibilities for a gold-backed stablecoin. Will it establish a new economic order? Governments worldwide replaced the gold standard with fiat money in the 20th centu...