The aftermath of the Nord Stream sabotage in the Baltic Sea on September 29, 2022.©Swedish Coast Guard / Sputnik The US had a clear motive to orchestrate the explosions on the two Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022 and had the means to do so, Russian President Vladimir Putin told America...
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“Arrests of Russian citizens have become more frequent lately, under the pretext of violating US export control legislation,”Ryabkov told the outlet RTVI. “I would like to caution all our citizens not to undertake such ill-advised travel, so to speak, and spend their time there in a stat...
Europe and U.S. Policy after WWII When World War II (WWII) ended, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union had already decided what post-war Europe would look like. At various conferences, the most important of which were at Yalta and Potsdam, the three powers...
Italy and key Indo-Pacific partners such as New Zealand have defied the US by participating in the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative. In short, the US will struggle to form a full-fledged anti-China alliance, as it did during the Cold War against the economically weaker Soviet Union....
Throughout the 1980’s, Afghanistan was the battleground for a terrible proxy war between the United States and the Soviet Union, during which time the entire country was laid to waste. Journalist Robert Fisk was there, documenting it all. In his epic summary of that war and so many others...
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War did not escalate into a “Hot War,” because neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union could afford to subject their populations to a nuclearholocaust. While wars with non-nuclear powers did occur during the Cold War, such as the Vietnam War and the Soviet-Afghan War, these “proxy ...
The exchange rates between the USD and other currencies can fluctuate wildly. The yen dropped a lot in 2022 and then again in 2023 against the USD. So the value of yen-denominated assets held by central banks (other than the Bank of Japan) would have declined whe...
The US first supplied Ukraine with the system, which boasts a longer range and higher precision than its Soviet-era equivalents, back in June 2022. Since then, Washington has repeatedly replenished Kiev’s stocks. The M142 HIMARS is capable of firing various types of munitions, including GPS-...