by WorldTribune Staff, June 26, 2025 Real World News In a major policy win for his administration, during this week’s summit in the Netherlands, the NATO alliance agreed to U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime demand that each member state boost defense spending to 5% of GDP. Trump wrote on Truth Social: “The NATO Summit yesterday […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 15, 2025 The stunningly successful Ukrainian drone attacks on multiple airbases across Russia’s deep interior last week by hitting and likely destroying a sizable portion of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet, proved the audacity of the beleaguered Kyiv government not to surrender. Operation “Spider Web,” hit grounded Russian […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2025 Real World News President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is confident the United States will annex Greenland. “I think it will happen,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office during a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. Trump suggested that NATO could be a key player in facilitating […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 7, 2025 LONDON — A made for TV political smackdown in the White House between two uneasy allies, a flood of recriminations, followed the incendiary face-off during the high stakes meetings between President Donald Trump’s team and the visiting Ukrainian delegation. The fear that the pending Ukrainian […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 21, 2025 Real World News If the Trump train is changing the game in Washington, D.C., it has upended a decades-long marriage of convenience with many nations in western Europe. “The United States-Europe relationship must fundamentally change if it is to endure,” Henry Olsen wrote in a Feb. 17 analysis for […]
Special to WorldTribune, February 9, 2025 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford Turkey is embarked on resurrecting the Ottoman Empire under the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Now, under Erdogan, secular Turkey is becoming an autocratic Islamic state. Erdogan is fostering Islamic (Sharia) law and persecuting Christians, Shiites, Alevis, and Kurds. Freedoms of speech and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, November 29, 2024 PARIS — There’s a strange unease in Europe. Part of it reflects the misplaced nervousness reacting to Donald Trump’s re-election as the American President. Naturally there’s the predictable political nail biting that a new virulent and assertive U.S. administration will be tough on European trade […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 19, 2024 Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and potentates are converging in New York for the 79th annual General Assembly of the United Nations. As the 193 member states meet amid the pomp, splendor and promise of a renewed challenge to settle conflicts and solve humanitarian crises, which […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2024 Contract With Our Readers After weeks of warnings from former President Donald Trump that the Biden Administration has the world on the brink of nuclear war, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly is set to announce that Ukraine has been given the green light to strike deep inside […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 17, 2024 As Ukraine’s war enters its third summer of fighting, there’s a morbid cadence to the conflict. The Russian invaders continue a bloody slugfest with a tough but worn-down Ukrainian army. Civilians throughout Ukraine are intended victims of indiscriminate Russian missile attacks. Clearly the international community […]
