Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia is closing German cultural centers on its territory as a retaliatory response after Germany blamed Russia for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig Airport on August 4. The explosives-laden drone was found near a Ukrainian plane at the airport and was later defused. This situation was later condemned by European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who called it "an attempted Russian attack." FDD's John Hardie joins LiveNOW's Austin Westfall to discuss.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, said that President Trump was committed to the work "if conditions and factors have changed to make that possible."
In the Baltics and in Kiev, the risks of a major escalation are rising. The post Russia’s Warnings Signal Danger of Widening War appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Russia’s Warnings Signal Danger of Widening War In the Baltics and in Kiev, the risks of a major escalation are rising. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP via Getty Images) The United States and Russia have agreed on little in the war in Ukraine. The one thing they have agreed on is the existential necessity of avoiding a direct war between NATO and Russia, which could become a third world war or even a nuclear war. At the beginning of November 2021, three and a half months before the war began, then-CIA Director William Burns spoke to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, and the two laid out what the…Open
The Justice Department's release of millions of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein shows how he worked to cultivate a vast web of influence among the global elite before and well after his 2008 conviction. Why it matters: Epstein's network of connections was "extraordinary," Sarah Krissoff, a former U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, tells Axios. "Power is one of those things that keeps expanding. He traveled in ultra-rich circles, and, from what I have seen, worked hard to cultivate relationships." - While being named in the Epstein files does not indicate wrongdoing, the fallout from the documents' release has triggered a wave of firings and resignations, and has prompted several countries to…
