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Ukraine’s war strategy: Survive 2024 to win in 2025 – POLITICO
Feb 22, 2024 · Ukraine has an ambitious military goal for this year — hold on. It's the third year of the country's full-scale war with Russia and a decade since Moscow illegally annexed Crimea and set off a conflict in eastern Ukraine.
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THE TIME TRAVELLER 1. Friedrich Merz. Friedrich Merz wishes he owned a time machine. The head of Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union doesn’t much care for what his longtime rival, Angela Merkel, did during her time as chancellor.Merz believes his predecessor as party leader committed major blunders when she phased out the country’s nuclear power plants following the 2011 ...
Trump threatens to cut US aid to Ukraine quickly if reelected
Jun 16, 2024 · “I will have that settled prior to taking the White House as president-elect,” said Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in the U.S. election.. Ukraine’s Western allies have been working to secure long-term assistance for Kyiv amid fears that Trump’s potential reelection could curtail U.S. support. The Biden administration last week extended long-term security guarantees to Ukraine.
Europe is under attack from Russia. Why isn’t it fighting back?
Nov 25, 2024 · “We have been observing aggressive actions by the Russian intelligence services for some time now,” said Thomas Haldenwang, who recently stepped down as president of Germany’s federal domestic intelligence agency.
Kyiv reveals total Ukraine casualties in Putin’s war for first time
Dec 8, 2024 · KYIV — Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has lost 43,000 soldiers killed in action and 370,000 more were wounded, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday, in Kyiv's first disclosure of total casualty figures in the the nearly three-year conflict.. Zelenskyy announced the figures in a Telegram post on Sunday after United States ...
World War III has officially begun, Ukraine’s ex-top general says
Nov 21, 2024 · Ukraine's former military Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny said that the direct involvement of Russia's autocratic allies in its war on Ukraine means that World War III has started.
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Visit the post for more. “Children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great-grandparents,” tech billionaire says, seemingly referencing the country’s history with Nazism.
Romanian election: What the hell is going on? – POLITICO
Dec 7, 2024 · What’s happening? This Sunday, Romanians were due to vote in the second-round runoff election for their next president. They had two candidates to pick from: center-right small-town mayor Elena Lasconi; or Călin Georgescu, a far-right independent who was catapulted from obscurity into the lead in the first round of voting on Nov. 24.. On Friday, Romania’s Constitutional Court decided the ...
Mapped: Europe’s rapidly rising right – POLITICO
May 24, 2024 · Meanwhile, hard-right parties are dominating the polls across much of Europe. In France, far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is cruising at over 30 percent, far ahead of President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, according to POLITICO’s Poll of Polls.Across the Rhine, Alternative for Germany, a party under police surveillance for its extremist views, is polling second ...