Cold war 2.0

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Putin: It’s ‘our business’ if we want to deploy North Korean troops against Ukraine

Ukraine updates: North Korean troops expected by Sunday

Ukraine updates: S. Korea considers sending weapons to Kyiv

 

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Zelenskyy rejects UN chief’s visit over meeting with Putin

 

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If there was such a thing, Guterres should be impeached over his bending the knee to war monger Putin and his Brics cronies. He should certainly be turfed out of his Secretary-General position. He's probably the worst to ever serve and there's been a few losers in that chair over the years. The UN's already dismal reputation sinks ever lower under this clown's guidance.

 

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Violence mars voting in Georgia’s pivotal election

Anxiety looms over Georgia’s election as voters cast ballots

 

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Georgia election: Opposition calls early results 'falsified'

Georgia: Ruling Georgian Dream party wins election

Georgia election marred by intimidation and interference, observers warn


What happens now is pretty good question.

 

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Japan election: Ruling party short of majority, says NHK

Lithuania votes in second round of parliamentary elections

Bulgarians go to the polls — yet again


More on elections, all of them have certain geopolitical weight.

 

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China vows countermeasures after US arms sale to Taiwan

Ukraine updates: Russia hits Kyiv, Dnipro after BRICS event

 

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Far-right ‘Venezuela majority’ signals new power balance in European Parliament

2024 European election results



It seems that EU elections didn't really end as it was interpreted in the media. The wider center was considered to have won (light red, yellow, light blue). However the forces on the right part of the spectrum also have a potential majority (light blue, dark blue, black and some of the gray). What means that the light blue is in dominant position since it sits on two "chairs" (that is center right EPP from article).

Another part of the picture is that governments in the EU member states are increasingly on the right wing part of the spectrum (due to current mess on the global level). However these governments are the ones that are sending their candidates to become EU commissioners (which are basically ministers in the EU executive branch of the federal government). Each member state gets to have one commissioner, therefore if the right is taking those governments that means that they will get to nominate the commissioners. What means that it is kinda stupid to have a parliament majority that wouldn't confirm those commissioners. What then means that more right leaning balance has to be found in the EU parliament. What in the end means that the coalition of the center didn't really won last elections for the EU parliament.

 

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Japan faces political instability as ruling coalition loses majority

Lithuania’s Social Democrats win parliamentary election

Georgia president calls for protests as opposition cries foul over election

Bulgaria: Borisov's conservative GERB leads in early results

 

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Georgia's president says election 'has been stolen'

Georgia: Hungary's Orban arrives as mass protests begin


This is going to be "intense".

 

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North Korean troops are now in Kursk to help Russia, NATO confirms

UK accuses Russian firms of stoking anti-Ukraine protests

Ukraine arrests man suspected of spying for Russia disguised as UN volunteer

Europe’s tech security czar-to-be faces China fight at home

Chad: Dozens of soldiers killed near Nigeria border

Ghana's presidential race: Candidates intensify campaigns

 

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China won’t like the sound of EU commissioner hearings. Here’s why.

Orbán congratulates Georgia on not ‘becoming a second Ukraine’

Hungarian FM to join Russia, Syria and Belarus at security summit

Putin ally Gerhard Schröder heads for reconciliation with German social democrats

Kremlin warns German weapons factory is legit target for Russia’s military

Sweden cuts ties with Georgian government as election storm swirls

 

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‘Bitter medicine’: Why some EU officials quietly yearn for Trump

Some thoughts on the big picture.



Zelenskyy: Russia’s North Korean troops should spark stronger Western response

Women at war: How Ukraine’s arms industry is replacing missing men

Putin’s cash crunch

Hungary flirts with Putin and snubs NATO meeting

Middle East: Lebanese PM hopeful for cease-fire in days

Canada: Indian minister plotted to target Sikh separatists

 

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On how Ukraine is doing over the border in Russia.