Goodwill gestures are meant to make the recipient trust whoever does them with the expectation that they'll then be reciprocated for improving their relations.
As US hostility towards Venezuela increases, a full scale invasion and regime change coup becomes increasingly likely -- following the same patterns of interventions before it.
At least seven boats from Venezuela that may have been fishing boats have been bombed by the US. Indiscriminate killing is allowed during war in a war zone under rules of engagement.
• https://www.paulcraigroberts.orgPaul Craig Roberts
Russia's President Putin should read The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and ponder the famous statement that "it is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." Putin's problem is that he is neither loved nor feared.
Despite a US-backed ceasefire having officially been in place for over a year in Lebanon, Israel has been steadily ratcheting its aerial attacks in southern Lebanon, against what it says are Hezbollah and terror targets, resulting in scores of casual
Days after urging European allies in Britain that Ukraine urgently needs sufficient long-range weapons to change the course of the war, President Zelensky has declared Monday that he intends to expand strikes against Russian refineries.
According to several recent news reports, the two major Trump foreign policy shifts last week are the handiwork of Marco Rubio, the President's Secretary of State and (acting) National Security Advisor.
The White House has promised no boots on the ground in Gaza as part of Trump's peace plan, which has resulted in a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel holding for two weeks, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have assets in the air.
Venezuela's president has been warning that his armed forces have deployed 5,000 Russian-made Igla-S anti-aircraft missiles across its territory, at a moment President Trump has ordered an unprecedented force build-up in the Caribbean.
...With The Communist Narco-Terrorist State Venezuela, AND Pelosi Now Officially Under Criminal Investigation By DOJ! PLUS, VP Vance Blasts Israel Over Gaza Annexation Comments! Reporter & Deep State Marauder Ivan Raiklin Confronts Letitia James & He
"Every boat we strike saves the lives of 25,000 Americans," says Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Wouldn't that be something if it were true! How simple the problems of our post-imperial US world would be!
For a man supposedly intent on winning a Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump spends an extraordinary amount of time waging war, threatening to wage war, and fantasizing about waging war.
Ukrainian drones have once again reached the Moscow area, far away from the border, at a moment the Kremlin is strongly warning against Washington allowing the transfer of US Tomahawk missiles to Kiev.
Another day, another Trump position on the Ukraine war. After saying just Monday that it is unlikely that Ukraine would win the war with Russia, President Trump today announced that the US is sanctioning Russia's two oil giants until Russia agrees to
Vice President JD Vance was in Israel Tuesday, where expressed confidence that the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip would hold, despite a brief flare-up in fighting on Sunday which saw Israeli forces launch dozens of new airstrikes.
Donald Trump seems to be following through in his second term as president on the threat of a United States war on Venezuela he made in his first term.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has accused some within the European Union of attempting to sabotage peace by disrupting the now-canceled meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump in Budapest.
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine an "unprovoked attack." The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much
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