Berlin, Paris, London, and the other European governments intend to reduce their military dependence on the US by implementing unprecedented attacks on the working class.
Russian troops are on the verge of recapturing all territory seized by Ukraine in an offensive in Kursk last summer, imparting an air of crisis to calls by US President Donald Trump for a 30-day ceasefire in the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine.
President Trump and Vice President Vance clashed with Ukrainian President Zelensky at the White House on Friday, exposing the crisis caused by the failure of the war in Ukraine and growing tensions between the US and its European allies.
Three years after the start of the Ukraine war, the narrative used by the imperialist powers to justify their provocation and escalation of the war is being exposed as a pack of lies.
The announcement by President Donald Trump that the United States would “immediately” begin negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine has plunged European politics into a deep crisis.
Whatever the hopes for “peace” with Trump by the Russian oligarchs, within a few weeks after the elections, it has become evident that Trump's pre-election statements on a “peaceful policy” were empty demagogic promises.
Both this visit and his subsequent trip to Poland were held very much under the shadow of the incoming Trump administration, with Britain and the NATO powers unsure how fully Trump will commit to the Ukraine war and how much more he will demand the European powers contribute.
The ending of Ukraine’s long-standing role as transit route for Russian gas to Europe continues to exacerbate already existing tensions within Europe as the NATO proxy war heads into its third year
Ukraine is now waging drone warfare across Russia, and there is growing speculation that Russian air defenses may have mistaken the jetliner as a drone and hit it.
Fidan’s visit is part of Ankara’s efforts to increase its influence over the future of Syria and the HTS leadership, and to eliminate the Washington-backed Kurdish forces.
The killing is the latest in a series of extremely provocative measures taken by the United States and NATO with the intention of escalating the Ukraine war in the weeks before the inauguration of incoming President Donald Trump on January 20.
The bombing is the latest in a series of assassinations of high-ranking Russian military and political figures carried out by Ukrainian forces and marks the highest-ranking Russian military figure to have been assassinated.
Starmer has made 16 international trips since Labour formed a government in July, with the most common reason being to escalate the imperialist-backed war against Russia.
The US and NATO-backed war for regime change in Syria, launched in 2011, has been revived. Turkey, Syria’s northern neighbour and occupying power since 2016, is playing a major role.
Police raids in working-class areas, including brutal immigration raids, have been normalised over the last decade. The Labour government is now ramping this up under the cover of the Terrorism Act that suspends democratic rights.
The Democrats’ overriding concern is not Trump’s authoritarian designs but safeguarding the continuity of the Biden administration’s central imperialist objective: the war against Russia in Ukraine.
After US-UK bombings of Russia, the alarm must be sounded: Whether or not war has been declared, a state of war effectively exists between major nuclear-armed powers.