Exclusive: #Putin, unfazed by #Trump, will fight on & could take more of #Ukraine
Putin intends to keep fighting in Ukraine until the West engages on his terms for *peace*, unfazed by Trump's threats of tougher #sanctions, & his territorial demands may widen as #Russia advances, 3 sources close to the Kremlin said.
#TrumpIsWeak #PutinsPuppet #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/putin-unfazed-by-trump-will-fight-could-take-more-ukraine-2025-07-15/
Solarpower has won, not because it is alternative or woke, but because of economy. And it will keep winning with still improving panels, becoming thinner and easy to use everywhere, battery technology is also still improving.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment
#solarpower #renewables #energy #geopolitics @geopolitics
Trump's threatened 30% #tariff on #SouthAfrica exports is set to deal an economic blow to a community he has vocally & controversially championed: white farmers.
Citing false claims that #white South Africans are being persecuted, #Trump has cut aid to the country, publicly berated its president in the Oval Office & invited #Afrikaners - descendants of early European settlers - to come to the #US as *#refugees*.
#PerfomativePolitics #stunt #racism #idiocracy #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-tariffs-south-africa-set-hit-white-farmers-trump-has-embraced-2025-07-09/
At least 51 people have been killed this morning in #Israel attacks on #Gaza, hospital sources tell Al Jazeera. At least 14 of that number were killed in the north
#Iran’s Supreme Leader #Kahmenei congratulated the country’s armed forces & said #US military bases could be attacked again in case of future threats.
#MidfleEast #geopolitics #war
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/26/live-israel-kills-over-80-in-gaza-3-killed-in-israeli-settler-attack
#Mexico, the #UnitedStates’ biggest trading partner, will get another 90 days to try to reach a #trade deal, #Trump & President #ClaudiaSheinbaum of Mexico announced after a phone call Thursday morning. The extension came a day before the *deadline* Trump has set for countries around the globe to strike deals or face #tariffs of as much as 50%.
#TACO #economy #law #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/trump-tariffs-mexico-extension.html?smid=url-share
#Iran Suspends Cooperation With #UN #Nuclear Watchdog, #IAEA
The decision means that international inspectors will not be able to oversee sites. Experts have warned that Tehran could revive plans to build a bomb.
#geopolitics #MiddleEast #US #Israel
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-iaea.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
No One Is Defying #Trump Like Brazil’s President
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of #Brazil during an interview with The New York Times on Tuesday at the Alvorada Palace in Brasília.
Faced with threats of 50% #tariffs & demands to end a #criminal case, President Luiz Inácio #Lula da Silva said he wouldn’t take orders from Trump.
#geopolitics #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/world/americas/brazil-president-lula-trump-tariffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The #LawsOfWar Are Being Largely Ignored
#International #courts have never been busier. Conflicts are more common than at any point since 1945. Ever more #civilians are being bombed, #starved & #raped by men with guns. These are the curses that the laws of war were invented to prevent, & that international courts are meant to punish & deter.
#law #InternationalLaw #ICC #ICJ #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WarCrimes #geopolitics #RulesBasedOrder #NewWorldOrder
https://www.economist.com/international/2025/08/05/why-the-laws-of-war-are-widely-ignored
