Far from being ‘the next de Gaulle’, the French president has sided with the US and NATO at every turn During NATO’s US-led intervention in Iraq, then-UK Prime Minister Tony Blair played the role of shotgun-riding sidekick to then-US President George W. Bush when the prime minister was in the best position to mitigate the…
Media reports claim that the Ukrainian president had overruled advice to withdraw from the “de facto surrounded” Artyomovsk The office of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has said senior military commanders have agreed to hold onto Artyomovsk – a key Donbass city – after German media outlets claimed a top Ukrainian general had encouraged withdrawing from…