June, 2022

• 6 June

  Ukraine Blasts French President Macron’s Call Not To ‘Humiliate’ Putin

  

  Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba chastised French President Emmanuel Macron, who earlier urged world powers not to “humiliate” Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine in order to preserve chances for a diplomatic solution to the conflict. “Calls to avoid humiliation of Russia can only humiliate France and every other country …

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• 6 June

  American spy agencies review their misses on Ukraine, Russia

  

  The question was posed in a private briefing to U.S. intelligence officials weeks before Russia launched its invasion in late February: Was Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, made in the mold of Britain’s Winston Churchill or Afghanistan’s Ashraf Ghani? In other words, would Zelenskyy lead a historic resistance or flee while …

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• 6 June

  Russia hits Kyiv with missiles; Putin warns West on arms

  

  Russia took aim Sunday at Western military supplies for Ukraine, launching airstrikes on Kyiv that it claimed destroyed tanks donated from abroad, as Vladimir Putin warned that any Western deliveries of longer-range rocket systems would prompt Moscow to hit “objects that we haven’t yet struck.” The Russian leader’s cryptic threat …

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• 5 June

  Diplomacy In The Time Of Cyber Conflict

  

  The emergence of cyberspace as a domain of strategic competition has made it more complicated for the Philippines to leverage the advantages of the information revolution. The Philippines is currently strengthening its network readiness by building critical information infrastructure, enhancing connectivity and implementing policies to manage the impact of new …

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• 5 June

  Dollar Dominance And The Rise Of Nontraditional Reserve Currencies

  

  The US dollar has long played an outsized role in global markets. It continues to do so even as the American economy has been producing a shrinking share of global output over the last two decades. But although the currency’s presence in global trade, international debt, and non-bank borrowing still …

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• 5 June

  Natural Gas Production In US’ Permian Basin Reached Annual High In 2021

  

  Marketed natural gas production from the Permian Basin in western Texas and eastern New Mexico reached a new annual high of 16.7 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2021. Annual marketed natural gas production in the Permian Basin has been rising steadily since 2012. The Permian Basin is the …

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• 5 June

  Ile kosztuje suwerenność?

  

  Więc ma być tak – szefowa Komisji Europejskiej Ursula von der Leyen przyjedzie do Warszawy i ogłosi odblokowanie unijnych funduszy w ramach Krajowego Planu Odbudowy. Bagatela – 35 miliardów euro. W zamian ma dostać ustawę likwidującą Izbę Dyscyplinarną Sądu Najwyższego. Tak oto kończy się wielka batalia, która prowadzili Jarosław Kaczyński …

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• 5 June

  Ohne Ungarn ist die EU stärker

  

  Viktor Orbán und Recep Tayyip Erdogan gehen vielen Europäern mächtig auf die Nerven. Sie torpedieren die Einigkeit gegen Wladimir Putins Krieg. Der türkische Präsident blockiert die Aufnahme Finnlands und Schwedens in die Nato. Der ungarische Premier das sechste Sanktionspaket der EU. Nach der vermeintlichen Einigung beim EU-Gipfel zum Ölembargo legt …

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• 5 June

  Iraq: Stabilising the Contested District of Sinjar

  

  What’s new? In October 2020, Baghdad and Erbil signed an agreement intended to build stability in Iraq’s Sinjar district through a new administration and security structure that would let displaced people return. The deal is only partly fulfilled, however. Turkey is intensifying bombardment of the PKK and its affiliates in the …

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• 5 June

  Kremlin: Russian Troops ‘Protecting’ Separatist-Controlled Areas Of Eastern Ukraine

  

  Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday Russian troops have succeeded in their main stated task of “protecting civilians” in the separatist-controlled areas in eastern Ukraine. He added that Russian forces have “liberated” parts of Ukraine and “this work will continue until all the goals of the special military operation are …

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