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WashPost As Ukraine War Drags On Pentagon Makes Long Term Plans For Europe

As Ukraine War Drags on, Pentagon Makes Long-term Plans for Europe

The open-ended war in Ukraine has thrown the Pentagon’s long-term planning into question, with senior U.S. defense officials expected to revamp how they deploy military forces in Eastern Europe and…

An aerial view showing a specialised barge sitting on a salt lake retention pond while pumping residuals on the bottom of the pond to nearby storage facilities in Golmud, China on 23 July, 2018. Operated by the Qinghai Salt Lake Group, the salt lake is an abundant source of minerals such as Potassium, Magnesium, and Litiuhm.  Photographer: Qilai Shen

The Battery Metal Really Worrying China is Lithium, Not Nickel

Nickel has captured much of the limelight among battery metals in recent weeks, and understandably so. Wild price swings, including an unprecedented 250% advance over two trading sessions amid a short…

Wired As Russia Plots Next Move AI Listens To Chatter

As Russia Plots Its Next Move, an AI Listens to the Chatter

A radio transmission between several Russian soldiers in Ukraine in early March, captured from an unencrypted channel, reveals panicked and confused comrades retreating after coming under artillery fire. “Vostok, I am…

ForeignAffairs The Sanctions War Is Just Beginning

The Sanctions War Is Just Beginning

The international sanctions campaign that countries and companies have mounted against Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine is a remarkable achievement of multinational diplomacy and corporate responsibility.…

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Ukraine Has Forever Changed Europe’s Balance of Power

Ukraine is paying the price for its defiance of Moscow. Encouraged by the West since the 2008 Orange Revolution, Kyiv pursued engagement with the European Union and NATO. For more than a decade,…

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Developing economies must act now to dampen the shocks from the Ukraine conflict

The war in Ukraine could not have come at a worse time for the global economy—when the recovery from the pandemic-induced contraction had begun to falter, inflation was surging, central banks…

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The invasion of Ukraine unites a divided America

By the standards of today’s polarized politics, the unity members of Congress displayed on Ukraine at President Biden’s State of the Union address was extraordinary. The hall was dotted with…

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Why the US rejected Poland’s plan to send fighter jets to Ukraine

Washington (CNN)The Pentagon said Wednesday that it is bluntly opposed to a Polish plan to provide fighter jets to Ukraine. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told the Polish minister…

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Support for Ukraine Relief Efforts

BENS Members, Like me, I recognize many of you are paying very close attention to the evolving situation in Ukraine. What we are seeing is unprecedented in many ways –…

Mehlman Infographic Post Post Cold War World

The Post-Post Cold War World

In this quarterly analysis of events driving trends in politics and strategy, government relations firm Mehlman Castagnetti shares its take on the surprises, uncertainty and disruption of the Russia-Ukraine war…