Russia New evidence suggests Russia is offering to trade North Korea food and much-needed basic commodities in exchange for weapons and ammunition it can use in Ukraine.Russia placed Nadya Tolokonnik …

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China The NYT printed a good article on China's new emergency loans to countries like Turkey, Argentina, and Sri Lanka. These bailouts are different from the Belt and Road investments China prioritiz …

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Ukraine Germany and the UK have started to transfer the Leopard 2 and Challenger tanks they promised Ukraine - just in time for an anticipated spring offensive. The Abrams tanks the U.S. pledged won' …

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Coming Up This Week Turkmenistan's general elections happened yesterday.Kamala Harris is visiting Africa starting yesterday. She'll stop in Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia with promises of U.S. support t …

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China One of the takeaways from the second day of meetings between Presidents Xi and Putin was that Russia may be moving towards using the yuan as its foreign currency of choice.The two leaders signe …

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Ukraine Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin wrote a letter to Russian defense minister Shoigu warning that Ukrainian forces plan to cut his Wagner fighters off from Russian regular forces - and su …

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