Hubby, while reading the news this morning said “ former Japanese Prime Minister has been assassinated” My response was “ That’s not a good sign” I stand by my initial assessment which was accompanied by a real sense of dread. The shooter and his bizarre/absurd home made gun is a distraction. Sleight of hand. Not […]
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10988257/Turkey-asks-Sweden-Finland-extradite-suspects.html Turkey has sent letters to Sweden and Finland renewing its request for the extradition of people it considers terror suspects, the Turkish justice minister said Wednesday. Turkey last week lifted its deal-breaking objections to Sweden and Finland´s NATO accession. But Ankara has warned that it could still block the process if the two Nordic […]
OTTAWA, July 5 (Reuters) – Canada became the first country to formally ratify Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO in an accelerated process completed shortly after member nations signed off on the nuclear-armed alliance’s expansion on Tuesday. The accession protocol needs to be ratified by the parliaments of all 30 North Atlantic Treaty Organization members […]
Effectively nothing has changed in the Turkish stance. Turkey’s leadership stated they may VETO and they are still making the same statement.Despite flawed interpretations made by some on line who’ve opted to NOT take notice of actual statements and advance preconceived notions of their own. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-nato-turkey-sweden-169a0386e3f6016da0b519b265645575 BRUSSELS (AP) — The 30 NATO allies signed off […]
Zelensky says they will take the region back https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/4/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-pledges-to-regain-lysychansk Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has acknowledged that his forces have withdrawn from the bombed-out city of Lysychansk, the last Ukrainian stronghold in the eastern Luhansk province. But he pledged late on Sunday to regain control of the lost territory with the help of long-range Western weapons. […]
Russia is moving to further tighten its grip on the nation’s oil and natural gas supplies, issuing a decree for the country to take over the Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project on Sakhalin Island north of Japan. An executive order signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin to “protect the national interests” calls for […]
The writing was on the wall for this action. The provocative move by Lithuania was not heartily endorsed by the EU as a whole. In fact the action accentuated the divisions that already existed. Russia did carry on supplying Kaliningrad by air and sea. Berlin and Brussels push for end to Kaliningrad transit sanctions – […]
Following up on the topic covered below Nord news Erdogan issued his straightforward warning at the end of a NATO summit in which the US-led alliance formally invited the Nordic countries to join the 30-nation bloc. A 10-point memorandum signed by the three sides alongside the NATO summit on Tuesday seemed to address many of […]
I’ve been watching this news and the way it’s been presented and the one thought that ran through my mind repeatedly was…. “This deal is not being presented accurately” Following realpolitik for more years than I care to admit.. Since March 2008. Which means after just over 14 years there are some things you know […]
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/lithuania-blocks-trade-russia-kaliningrad-203112 The Lithuanian government announced earlier in the week that Russia would no longer be allowed to transport items sanctioned by the European Union (EU) from its main territory to Kaliningrad, its exclave on the Baltic Sea coast, through Lithuanian territory. The ban was first announced on Friday by Anton Alikhanov, the Russian governor of […]