The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that tensions between Washington and Pretoria have increased since a Russian cargo ship paid a visit to South Africa’s major naval facility last month. According to the site, the nation’s defense minister claimed that the US has been exerting pressure on African countries over any ties to Moscow. According to a senior US source who spoke to the... 

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev has issued ultra-provocative words claiming that it’s not fundamentally Ukraine that Russia is at war with, but that the Russian military is facing all of NATO inside Ukraine. “The events in Ukraine aren’t a clash between Moscow and Kiev. It’s a military confrontation of NATO, first of all the US and Britain, with Russia. Fearing a direct... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing the largest military operation that the world has seen in decades and has ordered military officials to prepare for ‘World War 3.’ Putin, who is rumored to be on his deathbed battling terminal cancer, told close aides that Russia must strike first to gain an advantage in the ‘imminent’ global war against the West. According to the Daily Mail,... 

U.S. troops are being told to prepare for an all-out war with Russia as tensions continue to mount between Washington and Moscow. The U.S.’s 101st Airborne Division has been deployed to Romania for the first time in 80 years. Trends Journal reports: The U.S. Army said in a statement in June that the division arrived at the Mihail Kogălniceanu Airbase to “reinforce NATO’s eastern flank and engage... 

After the 2008 financial crisis, calls rang out across establishment publications and the executive offices of Wall Street that we were witnessing the death of globalization. The calls grew louder and more numerous after Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, the pandemic, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Yet the data appears to dispute this narrative. Global trade hit a record $28.5 trillion... 

A fire engulfed a Russian military base in Moscow early today and raged for more than four hours. The blaze, at an army facility in the east of the capital, came amid a spate of mystery infernos with suspicions that sabotage – linked to the war in Ukraine – is a cause of some of them. ‘The fire broke inside garage units at 3 Sokolinaya Gora, building 10,’ Moskva city news agency... 

Russian FSB agents and armed soldiers have prowled a Ukrainian orphanage to abduct children and send then to Moscow, chilling CCTV footage shows. Ukrainian intelligence claims a staggering 13,000 orphans as young as toddlers have been kidnapped and shipped to Russia where they are indoctrinated with pro-Kremlin propaganda, while teenagers are trained to be soldiers. Volodymyr Sahaidak is the director... 

As part of its strategy to reduce its reliance on Russian energy, the European Union lowered its natural gas consumption by 20.1% from August to November compared to the same months in 2017–2021, the European Statistical Office (Eurostat) said on Tuesday. In comparison to the average gas consumption for the same months (August to November) between 2017 and 2021, the EU’s natural gas consumption... 

Ukraine’s recent drone strikes deep within Russian territory could escalate the conflict, as Russia could come to the conclusion that the strikes were done with the help of the United States. The drone strikes conducted by Ukraine were supposedly in retaliation for Russian strikes targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure. On Monday, Dec. 5, Ukrainian drones attacked two military airbases – the... 

Russia and the West might engage in a full-fledged “major war” over Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday. Jens Stoltenberg, the head of NATO, commented on the situation ten months after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, stating that it is a “fateful time for Europe” and that things could “go horribly wrong” and turn from... 

According to sources cited by The Times on Friday, the US has secretly given Ukraine permission to carry out long-range strikes on targets inside of Russian territory. In light of its decreasing fear that such assaults may exacerbate the conflict, the Pentagon appears to have revised its position on the subject. A US defense official told the publication that the Pentagon is “no longer telling... 

An intercepted phone call between a frustrated Russian soldier and his mother sheds light on the deteriorating conditions for Russian troops on the frontline in Ukraine. The soldier revealed the harsh reality of being on the frontlines, describing days of pouring rain, lack of sleep, and inadequate living conditions. The intercepted call indicates a growing trend of Russian troops expressing a desire... 

For the first time, two million-year-old DNA has been identified, opening a completely new and previously unexplored chapter in the history of evolution. The researchers have found microscopic fragments of environmental DNA in sediments in northern Greenland. The research is now presented in the journal Nature. Using advanced techniques, the researchers discovered that the fragments are a million... 

Vladimir Putin warned today that the risk of nuclear war is ‘rising’ but insisted Moscow has not ‘gone mad’ during a televised meeting with officials. The Russian despot boasted that his country had the most ‘advanced weapons’ in its arsenal, but claimed the Kremlin sees its own nuclear weapons purely as a deterrent. His comments come after months of speculation... 

This week US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the US is prepping more aid to the Ukrainian government, particularly focusing on propping up its devastated energy infrastructure, but also for the first time unveiling that the tiny country of Moldova will be receiving significant aid for its failing energy grid. “We know that standing up for Ukraine means accepting difficult costs, particularly...