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  • Trump’s vision: One world, three powers?

    06/01/2025 5:25:48 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 20 replies
    SanJuan Daily Star ^ | 5/27/25 | Edward Wong
    For President Donald Trump, anytime is a good time for dealmaking, but never more so than now with the leaders of China and Russia. Last Monday, Trump said he wanted to normalize commerce with Russia, appearing to lessen the pressure on Moscow to settle its war with Ukraine. And he is trying to limit the fallout from his own global trade war by urging China’s leader to call him. “We all want to make deals,” Trump said in a recent interview with Time magazine. “But I am this giant store. It’s a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go...
  • U.S. and Allies Sound Alarm Over War Ties Among Axis of Adversaries

    09/30/2024 9:40:45 AM PDT · by McGruff · 6 replies
    NY Times ^ | Sep 30, 2024 | Edward Wong
    It is ripped from the pages of the World Wars or the Cold War: a coalition of powers working to strengthen one another’s militaries to defeat America’s partners and, by extension, the United States. ... At a Security Council meeting on Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said the council’s priority should be stopping the stream of military aid — including ballistic missiles, drones and artillery shells — from North Korea and Iran to Russia. And he noted that China had sent machine tools, microelectronics and other supplies to Russia’s defense industry as President Vladimir V. Putin presses his...
  • U.S. Officials Fear American Guns Ordered by Israel Could Fuel West Bank Violence

    11/06/2023 6:08:56 AM PST · by ConservativeInPA · 31 replies
    NY Slimes via Yahoo! ^ | November 6, 2023 | Edward Wong and Patrick Kingsley
    WASHINGTON — An Israeli government request for 24,000 assault rifles from the United States is drawing scrutiny from American lawmakers and some State Department officials who fear the weapons might end up in the hands of settlers and civilian militias trying to force Palestinians from land in the West Bank, where violence has been surging, U.S. officials say. The three proposed tranches of semi-automatic and automatic rifles are valued at $34 million and are being ordered directly from U.S. gunmakers, but they require State Department approval and congressional notification. Israel says the rifles would be used by the national police...
  • Russia Asked China for Military and Economic Aid for Ukraine War, U.S. Officials Say

    03/13/2022 1:02:17 PM PDT · by fluorescence · 45 replies
    NYT ^ | March 13, 2022 | Edward Wong and Julian E. Barnes
    WASHINGTON — Russia asked China to give it military equipment and support for the war in Ukraine after President Vladimir V. Putin began a full-scale invasion last month, according to U.S. officials. Russia has also asked China for additional economic assistance, to help counteract the battering its economy has taken from broad sanctions imposed by the United States and European and Asian nations, according to an official. American officials, determined to keep secret their means of collecting the intelligence on Russia’s requests, declined to describe further the kind of military equipment Moscow is seeking. The officials also declined to discuss...
  • NYT: Officials Discussed Hold on Ukraine Aid After Trump Spoke With Country’s Leader (BARF ALERT)

    12/22/2019 4:10:22 AM PST · by SilvieWaldorfMD · 85 replies
    NYT ^ | 12/21/19 | Edward Wong
    WASHINGTON — About 90 minutes after President Trump held a controversial telephone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in July, the White House budget office ordered the Pentagon to suspend all military aid that Congress had allocated to Ukraine, according to emails released by the Pentagon late Friday. A budget official, Michael Duffey, also told the Pentagon to keep quiet about the aid freeze because of the “sensitive nature of the request,” according to a message dated July 25. An earlier email that Mr. Duffey sent to the Pentagon comptroller suggested that Mr. Trump began asking aides about $250...