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The White House does not want to sanction tankers allegedly used by Russia to deliver oil in defiance of Western sanctions as there are fears that such a move could affect fuel prices and hurt President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, The New York Times reported on July 7, citing sources familiar with the matter. The US outlet reported that White House economic advisers believe the US Treasury proposal will ultimately result in higher oil and gasoline prices. “While Treasury officials want to put Russian tankers out of commission, economic advisers inside the White House worry that there will be a risk of a spike in […] #AmericanGeopoliticalInstitute #UkraineWar Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/07/washington-is-reluctant-to-sanction-russian-oil-tankers-to-prevent-price-hikes/?feed_id=13098

May 2024 will be remembered as one of the most turbulent months in recent times. First we had the assassination attempt on Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, while just four days later Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian both died when their US-made Bell 212 went down near the city of Varzaqan in northwestern Iran. Seven other high-ranking officials, including the governor-general of Tehran’s East Azerbaijan province Malek Rahmati, as well as the state representative in the region Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, were also killed in this highly controversial helicopter crash. Ever since the tragic incident, there’s been […] #Featured #Government #Investigations #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/could-us-have-used-a-kill-switch-to-assassinate-raisi/?feed_id=12211

The political West never stopped seeing the Global South as one of the primary targets of its (neo)colonialist tendencies. This has been proven time and again, with the United States and its vassals and satellite states often patronizing these countries about the supposed “moral high ground” of Western nations and their vaunted “rules-based world order“, “freedom and democracy”, etc. However, the Global South is increasingly “uncompliant” with the demands of (neo)colonialists, resulting in accusations that they’re somehow “fence sitters” and “not democratic enough”, among other things. Washington DC is trying to exert this pressure regardless of how big or powerful the country is, […] #Elections #Featured #Government #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/10/us-escalates-meddling-in-internal-affairs-of-bangladesh-puts-pressure-on-local-media/?feed_id=4147

The political West never stopped seeing the Global South as one of the primary targets of its (neo)colonialist tendencies. This has been proven time and again, with the United States and its vassals and satellite states often patronizing these countries about the supposed “moral high ground” of Western nations and their vaunted “rules-based world order“, “freedom and democracy”, etc. However, the Global South is increasingly “uncompliant” with the demands of (neo)colonialists, resulting in accusations that they’re somehow “fence sitters” and “not democratic enough”, among other things. Washington DC is trying to exert this pressure regardless of how big or powerful the country is, […] #Elections #Featured #Government #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/10/us-escalates-meddling-in-internal-affairs-of-bangladesh-puts-pressure-on-local-media/?feed_id=4132

by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher The Biden administration has called on the US Congress to approve an additional $24 billion package for Ukraine as only a few weeks’ worth of funds are currently available. The Democrat push to ensure the war continues comes as Donald Trump promised to end it if he was re-elected in 2024 and is now leading in the polls over Joe Biden. John Kirby, the strategic communications coordinator at the White House National Security Council, said in an interview with CNN that the US has enough funding to “last another few weeks or […] #Elections #Government Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/09/latest-poll-shows-trump-up-10-points-over-biden-for-2024-election/?feed_id=3979

With the notable exception of the spectacular failure called the F-35, the acquisition of F-16 “Fighting Falcon” fighter jets for the Kiev regime forces is the most controversial military contract in recent times. And as soon as we thought it couldn’t possibly get any more complicated, well, it just did. As if having the United States (along with its numerous NATO satellite states) and Russia involved wasn’t dangerous already, particularly as Moscow repeatedly warns about the nuclear-capable F-16s that the Neo-Nazi junta could be getting, it seems the controversy now also includes China and Argentina. And while it may seem bewildering, given […] #Featured #Government #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/09/kiev-cant-get-enough-f-16s-because-of-china-and-argentina/?feed_id=3906

It’s virtually guaranteed that the Kiev regime will get the MGM-140 ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System), a US-made tactical/theater ballistic missile system with a maximum engagement range of approximately 300 km and a supersonic speed of up to Mach 3. While its capabilities are far from Russian counterparts, such as the now legendary “Iskander” with a hypersonic speed (up to Mach 8, with maneuvering capabilities for its missiles) and a range of approximately 500 km, this is still enough to jeopardize Russian supply lines, as well as civilian settlements deeper within Moscow’s territory. The ATACMS can also be fired from two […] #Featured #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/09/how-could-russia-respond-when-kiev-gets-atacms-missiles-and-armed-drones/?feed_id=3862

Revelations about what Victoria Nuland ever so euphemistically called “biological research facilities” in Ukraine are usually tied to the start of Russia’s strategic counteroffensive against NATO aggression in Europe (SMO). However, the truth is that the United States has had a massive bioweapons program for well over half a century and that it has become unprecedentedly globalized in recent decades. The belligerent thalassocracy carefully disguises it under the pretense of “battling epidemics” and “improving health services” of host countries, but the very fact that the Pentagon is directly involved in these projects is a major red flag that indicates such claims are at […] #Featured #Investigations #Military Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/09/us-bioweapons-in-nigeria-endanger-africa-and-the-whole-world/?feed_id=3818

by Alex Rubinstein – originally published on The GrayZone All links to previous Gospa News articles have been added aftermath for relevance to the topics highlighted In a massive show of support for limitless executive power, Congress rejected legislation that would have terminated national emergency powers allowing Washington to wage war across the Middle East.  […] #Featured #Government #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/07/dc-uniparty-kills-house-resolutions-to-end-us-emergency-powers-in-iraq-syria-libya-and-yemen/?feed_id=2362

On the eve of the inauguration of Brazil’s leftist President Lula da Silva, January 1st, out-going Jair Bolsanaro headed to the United States.

“Ukraine is not the worst act of war since World War II. It’s not even the worst war going on right now,” wrote Sri Lanka-based journalist Indi Samarajiva, referring to Syria and Yemen; “It’s just the worst to happen to white people.”