Tag: Foreign policy with country
Biden wants another $33 billion from Congress for Ukraine
US President Joe Biden “Russia is the aggressor.” (Photo: IMAGO/ZUMA Wire) Washington The US government intends to continue to allocate huge sums of money to support Ukraine in the war…
Fear of Russia’s invasion of Transnistria
Russian military base in Tiraspol Fear of a war with Russia is growing in Moldova. (Photo: AP) Berlin, Brussels The first flee. Cars and small trucks are jammed at the…
Russia will not be successful in Donbass either
Destroyed houses in Mariupol In the Donbass, Russia is currently working with a mix of units. (Photo: IMAGO/SNA) Washington Russia had assumed a blitzkrieg, but the march on the capital…
Russian separatists want to introduce rubles in Ukrainian provinces
Kherson Protests against the Russian occupation are frequent at rallies. (Photo: dpa) Kherson, Kyiv Ahead of the much-anticipated May 9th – the celebrations of the victory over Hitler’s Germany –…
Traffic light coalition threatens China with sanctions
Chancellor Olaf Scholz with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Strengthening relations beyond China. (Photo: AP) Brussels The traffic light coalition is correcting the strategic course set over the past decades…
Chancellor Olaf Scholz only reacts bit by bit
Olaf Scholz The chancellor prefers to react rather than actively act. (Photo: Getty Images) Olaf Scholz is considered stubborn to the point of denial of reality. At the beginning of…
Traffic light coalition threatens China with sanctions
Chinese leader Xi Jinping Emphatic expectations of the Chinese leadership now come from the German government. (Photo: IMAGO/Xinhua) Brussels The traffic light coalition is correcting the strategic course set over…
Traffic light and Union for Heavy Weapons
Berlin Friedrich Merz does not look ahead, he first looks back: The Chancellor dismissed MPs from his own parliamentary group as “boys and girls” just because they didn’t agree with…
The western model threatens to erode
Are we already living in the “twilight of democracy,” as Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum fears in her new book The Lure of Authoritarianism? In any case, the current Bertelsmann…
Russia will not be successful in Donbass either
Destroyed houses in Mariupol In the Donbass, Russia is currently working with a mix of units. (Photo: IMAGO/SNA) Washington According to US military strategist Jeffrey Edmonds, the new Russian strategy…
Explosions in Kherson – Zelensky accuses Russia of “energy blackmail”.
Ukrainian soldier in a tank in the Donetsk region The Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov has promised his country’s army “extremely difficult weeks” in the Russian war of aggression. (Photo: AP)…
Putin is also sacrificing his own economy
Nor is anyone really surprised that the Russian president is willing to jeopardize the fate of his own economy. Economists in this country have been arguing for weeks, and the…
Annalena Baerbock defends delivery of heavy weapons to Ukraine
Federal Foreign Minister Baerbock in the Bundestag Annalena Baerbock answered questions from members of the Bundestag in Parliament. (Photo: Reuters) Berlin Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock defended the German government’s…
Russia and USA surprisingly exchange prisoners
Trevor Reed in Moscow Given the strained relations between the two countries, the exchange comes as a surprise. (Photo: Reuters) Moscow Russia and the US have surprisingly carried out a…
How the federal government prevents an arms deal
Bangkok The deal with Thailand should actually be a new highlight for China’s defense industry: For the first time since the Second World War, the Thai Navy wants to use…
Why Russia no longer delivers to Bulgaria and Poland
gas compression station Since 2014, the European gas network has been prepared to manage without Russian gas if possible. (Photo: ZB) Brussels, Berlin, Dusseldorf For decades, Europe’s energy policy, and…
Why Switzerland does not want to deliver
Federal building in Bern For the time being, Switzerland will not allow the export of Swiss-made ammunition to Ukraine. (Photo: imago images/Andreas Haas) Zurich The delivery of heavy weapons such…
Olaf Scholz in Tokyo instead of Beijing – course correction of German Asia policy
Tokyo Chancellor Olaf Scholz is shifting the focus of German Asia policy. The first trip to Asia of his term of office on Thursday will not take him to China,…
War could last until the end of the year
Ukrainian man in Russian-controlled territory No hope for a quick end to the war. (Photo: AP) Kyiv Russia is cutting off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, further increasing tensions…
Russia will stop natural gas supplies to Poland from Wednesday
Gazprom headquarters in St. Petersburg Moscow wants the Russian gas monopoly to be paid in rubles in the future. (Photo: AP) Warsaw According to the government in Sofia, Russia no…