The US is considering the possibility of banning exports of consumer and industrial technologies to Russia, such as components for smartphones and planes, if Moscow launches an invasion of Ukraine, news agency Reuters has claimed. Citing an unnamed source in the White House, the agency reported that a handful of American industries could be banned from conducting business in the Russian market. According... 

European Union officials are backing Poland’s accusations that Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is conducting a form of “hybrid warfare” in unleashing armies of Arabs on the Polish border into the EU and yes these EU officials are right to blame Belarus for this but why aren’t these officials demanding the same thing for Turkey (sanctions) as they are unleashing far larger number... 

The European Parliament has sued the executive branch of the EU government, the European Commission, on Friday, for its failure to use the sanctions mechanism against rule-breaking member states like Poland. The mechanism in question was introduced in late 2020 and allows the EU to withhold funding of member states that Brussels sees as defying the rule of law. The nation currently topping the blacklist... 

Joe Biden has issued a presidential memorandum threatening “financial sanctions” on African countries for failing to embrace the LGBTQI+ agenda. The memorandum directs federal agencies to “conduct and expand efforts to combat discrimination, homophobia, transphobia, and intolerance on the basis of LGBTQI+ status or conduct”, with an annual report detailing the status of LGBTQI+ rights in countries... 

Washington’s restrictions will force Chinese tech giant Huawei to stop making the chipsets powering its flagship smartphones as soon as next month, the company has revealed. According to Richard Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei’s consumer business, the new high-end Mate40 will become the last model featuring its most advanced processor Kirin 9000. The new smartphone is set to be released in September. “Our... 

After a Russian TV channel loosely inspired by America’s Fox News was blocked by video-streaming service YouTube earlier this week, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman says Western web giants should be treated with a “low degree of trust.” Dmitry Peskov emphasized that the companies are completely unaccountable and can do as they please. He said the public needs to be aware that they can be... 

With the US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002, and President Trump’s scrapping of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty last August, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is now the last major nuclear arms treaty in force. Moscow has warned that a failure to renew the treaty could spark a new global arms race. President Donald Trump has named Bush-era torture proponent... 

Now if you the reader would expect us as Europeans to cheer such a statement then you must have been dropped in your head as a baby. Maybe you Trumptards out there see this as a good thing, maybe you see this as a very patriotic action or something, Trump caring for America or whatever, but hey what about Italy, Spain and France who so far have been the hardest hit? They don’t deserve any masks... 

Washington has managed to “cut off probably over 95 percent of the oil revenues” of Iran, according to US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. He told Fox News that US officials are now working on the issue with China, as the country accounts for a significant part of Iran’s remaining oil exports. “I sat down with the Chinese officials. They flew in a delegation to meet with us and... 

Despite the fact that most European regimes refuse to consider removing sanctions on Russia under various pretexts, some EU politicians and parties have been calling for an end to economic and political confrontations and a mending of ties with its eastern neighbour. However, it is the peoples of Europe and importantly the most intelligent of respondents who demand that the political elite stop ignoring... 

Ankara retains the option of shutting down the Incirlik Air Base used by US/NATO forces, in retaliation to any additional sanctions against Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. As well the air base, which is located in Adana, the Kurecik Radar Station in the Malatya province may also be closed, Erdogan said. The Kurecik base houses an early-warning radar installed by the US Army, which... 

USA has gone nuts, completely nuts!! At this point is there a single nation on Earth that is not “sanctioned” by America? Soon everyone will be “sanctioned” and soon America will find itself completely isolated with no friends with the exception of Israel of course and everybody will unite to sanction America instead… they act as if they are the daily bread of the world... 

Russia will not be the first to abolish restrictive measures that were imposed in response to the sanctions against Moscow’s current policy, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a news conference following his talks with Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne. “If we discuss first steps on the part of Russia, the abolition of some of our restrictive measures, retaliatory restrictive... 

As Greece continues to struggle to accommodate the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who’ve recently have made their way from Turkey, its government said that it would call on the EU to impose sanctions on member states who refuse to accept a portion of the new arrivals. The Greek government contends that countries like Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, who continue to reject “mandatory”... 

Last month the UK government revealed its plan to levy a two percent tax on the revenues of tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook. The Trump administration, in response to the plan, is reportedly ready to walk away from an agreement that newly inaugurated Prime Minister Boris Johnson is relying on heavily with a no-deal Brexit fast approaching. According to the Telegraph, the White House has...