by WorldTribune Staff, October 16, 2022 Ukraine lost one of its MiG-29 fighter jets after it shot down an Iranian-made drone being used by Russia in the ongoing war. A Ukrainian MiG-29 reportedly costs between $5 million and $12 million. The drone, an Iranian Shahed-136 Kamikaze (re-christened as Geran-2 by Russia), costs between $20,000 and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, October 12, 2022 The following by WorldTribune.com columnist Don Kirk, originally appeared in The Hill. How can President Biden talk about “Armageddon” in Ukraine after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin boasts of Russia’s nuclear strength without also mentioning North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s threats to use nuclear weapons? That question does not seem to have […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 6, 2022 The Washington, D.C.-based think tank Brookings Institution is essentially recommending that Team Biden refrain from issuing a firm commitment to defend Taiwan. “Credible nuclear threats on behalf of allies and partners, or extended deterrence, will be hard to achieve in a world where China’s nuclear weapons pose an increasingly […]
FPI / October 5, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct For all the talk of possible impending nuclear war over the U.S.-Russia showdown on Ukraine, the new face of global conflict may instead turn out to be attacks on critical infrastructure. Asked at a Sept. 30 news conference what the United States was doing to ease Europe’s energy crisis […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 3, 2022 Amid a swirl of ongoing and upcoming international crises, the Ukraine war overwhelmingly dominated debate at the United Nations General Assembly. Most speakers decried Vladimir Putin’s widening war against Ukraine and equally viewed the dangerous regional and global ramifications from this European conflict which could […]
by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News September 30, 2022 In a lengthy “mission accomplished” speech on Friday, Russian leader Vladimir Putin declared that annexation declarations have been signed by the heads of Ukraine territories Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Putin declared the regions are now part of Russia “forever” and touted referendums in which […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 29, 2022 German security officials believe “highly effective explosive devices” were used to in sabotage attacks on Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines. Der Spiegel reported on Thursday that the intelligence officials calculated that explosive devices with an effect comparable to that of 500 kilograms (about 1,100 pounds) […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 29, 2022 The first openly transgender officer in the U.S. military and his anesthesiologist wife have been charged criminally for allegedly plotting to leak highly sensitive healthcare data about American military personnel to Russia. The Department of Justice said in a Thursday press release that Maj. Jamie Lee Henry and his […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 28, 2022 Following reports on Tuesday that three leaks in Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines were acts of sabotage, former President Donald Trump called for a negotiated deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war and offered to mediate it. Authorities in Sweden and Denmark reported that the leaks in the pipelines, which run […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, September 26, 2022 Most of Iran’s 36 provinces saw mass demonstrations in September 2022 against the clerical Government of the Islamic Republic, and, as with earlier periodic waves of demonstrations, each occurrence prompts the question: Is this the outburst which topples the […]
