It’s been two years since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and the big news is there has been no battlefield decision, something few would have predicted in 2022. It’s hard to say who is even winning. Putin wants victory more than Biden, a fact reflected by Russia’s huge war production of arty […]
LONDON — An unexploded World War II bomb was being transported Friday through the southwestern English port city of Plymouth by a military convoy and disposed of at sea, prompting one of the largest evacuations in the United Kingdom since the war. Devon and Cornwall Police said the bomb, which was found in a residential […]
President Biden says the U.S. is levying 500 new sanctions against Russia’s military capabilities and the persons responsible for imprisoning Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who died earlier this month. Mr. Biden said the sanctions are payback for Mr. Navalny’s death in an Arctic prison and designed to coincide with […]
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department plans to impose more than 500 new sanctions on Russia and its war machine on Friday as the U.S. vows to keep up its financial pressure on Moscow with the war entering its third grueling year. The sanctions represent the largest single tranche of penalties since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine […]
Alexei Navalny and other opposition figures who posed threats to Russian President Vladimir Putin are dead. Ukrainian troops are running perilously low on ammunition. Russian forces are gaining ground in the Donbas. In America, the political fight over the utility of continued financial aid for Ukraine has reached a fever pitch. Taken together, those factors […]
I must admit that I am fascinated by the sudden uptick in talk about a European war with Russia. Not fascinated in the “I would love to see what happens” way, but rather “I never expected to hear the mostly pacifist European governments openly discuss the possibility of World War III.” Nobody, I think, is […]
RABAT, Morocco — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez met with Moroccan King Mohammed VI on Wednesday, lauding cooperation on managing migration. Sánchez also reiterated Spain‘s position in support of Morocco’s autonomy plan regarding the disputed Western Sahara and called for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, which began in October. “We must also guarantee access […]
It’s not exactly a surprise: The threat posed by anti-satellite weapons has been steadily approaching, in plain view of everyone, for decades. “Soviet ASAT capabilities threaten U.S. military capabilities to some extent now and potentially to a much greater extent in the future,” researchers with the congressional Office of Technology Assessment wrote in a report […]
Top O’ the Briefing Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Konklabern would often dredge the family carp pond as a distraction from his occasional absinthe spasms. First off, apologies for the feature image today. Sort of. You might be surprised to find that we don’t have a lot […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stressed the importance of the stalled Senate foreign aid package in rebuilding his country’s arsenal as it battles Russia. While the Senate this week passed a $95 billion foreign aid package that includes $60 billion for Ukraine, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Louisiana Republican, has refused to bring it to the lower […]
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