Washington’s hegemony, which it calls the “rules-based international order,” is at stake, Lloyd Austin has declared US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin declared on Saturday that the outcome of the conflict in Ukraine will shape the geopolitical order of the 21st century. The West’s “stability and prosperity” is on the line, he stressed.
The bloc’s top diplomat proposed six points to serve as guidelines for diplomacy towards Russia The EU’s policies towards Moscow promoted by foreign policy chief Josep Borrell only deepen the divisions within the bloc, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday.
The Russian peninsula was controlled by Kiev from 1991-2014, due to a controversial Soviet-era re-assignment Ukraine could capture Russia’s region of Crimea by the end of this year, Kiev’s deputy defense minister, Vladimir Gavrilov, has said. In an interview with Sky News on Saturday, Gavrilov stated that what is known as a ‘black swan’ –…