Ready and willing. That’s my take from today’s meeting in Paris. Europe is ready and willing to step up. To lead in providing security guarantees for Ukraine. Ready and willing to invest a lot more in our security. The details will need to be decided but the commitment is clear.

Europe doesn't have the ground forces to deploy peacekeepers in Ukraine, even if Moscow accepted them. Germany has at best 5 brigades manned and equipped; the UK has 18,398 combat soldiers as of 2024; the French have two small brigades in the Foreign Legion and not much else; and

It is the combination of Russia, whose army did the fighting and made the sacrifice in lives, China, which carried on trade with Russia, and the Global South, which refused to support U.S. sanctions, which is defeating the U.S./NATO in Ukraine - the greatest defeat of NATO in its

Looking for policy signals from Xi’s meeting with private firms? These 2 photos tell you everything: 1. 4 decades after launch of reforms, private businessmen are still only shown from behind - suggesting they remain a face the CCP prefers not to see, much like a chamber pot

@KakwenzaRukira What have you done dear "comrade" Kakwenza, my brother .

I visited @kizzabesigye1 in his prison cell today. He was lying on a small bed that occupies the whole length of the room. A pile of old newspapers & 2 old cardboard boxes next to his bed left room for one stool to sit on. There were about six or seven locked doors that I went

🇨🇳🇺🇸HOW MUCH US FARMLAND DOES CHINA OWN? THE US HAS LOST TRACK. USDA reported that Chinese investments increased 10 times between 2009 and 2016, and overall foreign investments grew roughly 40 million acres. Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Dan Newhouse, R-Wash: "This

If Ukraine still had nukes, Russia would never have invaded. Yet in 1994, the west convinced Ukraine to disarm - in return for security & sovereignty. Now, Trump is siding with Putin. This is the worst betrayal in recent geopolitical history.