The EU must escalate its military buildup and win the arms race against Russia, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said. This comes amid growing efforts by EU leaders to increase defense spending, citing what they describe as a threat from Moscow, which Russia has repeatedly denied.

Tusk’s remarks also come as US President Donald Trump and his administration increasingly push European NATO members to take greater responsibility for their own defense. Washington has suggested that Europe should rely less on US military aid, particularly regarding Ukraine, and instead ramp up its own military spending.

In a message posted on social media on Thursday, Tusk accused Moscow of starting a new arms race and insisted that Europe must respond. 

Russia poses a direct threat to France and all of the EU, President Emmanuel Macron has said, urging the bloc to ramp up defense spending.

Speaking in a televised address on Wednesday, Macron accused Russia of turning the Ukraine conflict into a global conflict. “If a country can invade its neighbor in Europe with impunity, then no one can be sure of anything anymore… Beyond Ukraine, the Russian threat extends to all of Europe, including us.”

The French president also sounded the alarm over what he called Russia’s military expansion, claiming that Moscow is now spending over 40% of its budget on its military, with ambitious plans to grow the army by 2030. “Given this, who can truly believe that today’s Russia will stop at Ukraine?” he said.

Hamas must release the remaining Israeli hostages or face certain destruction, US President Donald Trump has warned. He issued the threat after the talks about further prisoner swaps between Israel and the Palestinian armed group reportedly stalled. 

“Release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you,” the president wrote on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday.

Trump added that he was “sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job.”

“This is your last warning! For the leadership, now is the time to leave Gaza, while you still have a chance,” he wrote. “Also, to the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD!”

The United States government confirms (February 2025) that the fake NGO USAID (US Agency for International Development), a CIA submarine that has financed all possible coups d'état, all "color revolutions" also directly financed "No less than six thousand journalists and seven hundred independent editorial offices".

This is a global scoop, except for a few informed people like the readers of Le Grand Soir. See here.

Now, the duty of any non-corrupt journalist is to investigate the names of the six thousand journalists and the seven hundred editorial offices. First, their professional duty is to ask the United States for the lists. And to publish them.

Otherwise, suspicion will affect all the media, and that is not good for democracy (the part in italics is ironic, parodic and mocking).

The US is prepared to go to war with China if necessary, the Pentagon has announced, following Beijing’s threat of tariff retaliation in what marks another escalation in an ongoing trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth clarified the US position early on Wednesday in an interview with Fox News, responding to the Chinese Embassy in the US, which said Beijing was ready to fight “any” type of war.

“We are prepared,” Hegseth said, adding, “Those who long for peace must prepare for war.”

He further stated that this was why the US was rebuilding its military and restoring “deterrence in the warrior ethos.”

In 2019, the CIA proved that it had been lying to the public for decades about germ warfare in Korea when it released a trove of signals intelligence documents from the Korean War in a publication called Baptism by Fire: CIA Analysis of the Korean War.

The documents detail communications from CIA listening posts around the world that narrate the People’s Volunteer Army (PVA) of China and the North Korean People’s Army (KFA) responses to U.S. biological warfare (BW) attacks by airplane in North Korea from May 1951 through July 1953.

Last week, I narrated the events surrounding the Ukrainian conflict, emphasizing that French President Emmanuel Macron, as brilliant as he is, was incapable of adapting to the changes in the world.

This week, I am taking up the same elements, and many others that followed, to show that the divorce of Europeans from each other and of the EU from the United States has become a reality.

by Thierry meyssan

There is no time to procrastinate: the old world has just been destroyed. If we do not take a stand immediately, we will be swept away with it.

But at the moment, the UK and France are competing to take the place of the US on the continent, not to reform.

The US has suspended military assistance to Ukraine, including the delivery of weapons that were already in shipment, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has told journalists. Earlier, the move was reported by several US media outlets. 

“Today, a decision was announced to suspend American aid for Ukraine,”Tusk told reporters ahead of a government meeting on Tuesday. Washington has not made any official announcements on the issue. 

“Reports that are coming from the border, from our hub in Jasionka, have confirmed the announcements of the American side,” the Polish prime minister stated. Located in the southeastern Poland, Jasionka airport has been transformed into a major supply and transport hub for Ukraine-bound Western military aid.

Trump’s speech was full of wild claims. Here are seven that weren’t true

President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress highlighted several of the initiatives he has started in his first six weeks in office, but many of his comments included false and misleading information.

Here’s a look at the facts.

1. Trump overstated the numbers on his immigration crackdown

‘Illegal border crossings last month were by far the lowest ever recorded. Ever.’

Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday that Border Patrol apprehended 8326 people on the US-Mexico border last month. But US government data shows that Border Patrol routinely averaged below that number in the 1960s.

Gallagher says forcing employees back to the office ‘a step in the wrong direction’, particularly for women, as opposition’s plan to cut public service remains unclear

Labor accuses ‘policy-lazy’ Dutton of copying Trump as Coalition pushes to end WFH for public servants

BY Josh Butler

Anthony Albanese has accused Peter Dutton of “lazy” ideas and borrowing policy from Donald Trump after the Coalition pledged to end public servants working from home, a reform the nation’s workplace equality commissioner says could affect the gender pay gap.

There are no rules — and should be no judgement — about how International Women's Day should be marked.

Not everyone's a fan of pink cupcakes and special breakfasts full of women who are a little bit crying on the inside from having to get it together even earlier than usual.

Some ladies contain themselves to the quiet ritual of doing one and a half times as much housework as their husbands, just like every other day.

As Donald Trump and his 'broligarchs' take over, reality disappears from conversations on gender and diversity

Together with many Jews here and around the world, I’m proud to stand with you once again in solidarity with Palestine. On this occasion, I want to talk about the growing hysteria about antisemitism.

The petulant demand of tribute to the Trump empire and his transactional ethos surely now challenges the agreed balance sheet between Australia and America.

Comments last week by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on vital defence issues made clear how confused — and indeed downright misinformed — our highest political and defence force leaders are.

Albanese, asked whether ANZUS was “rock solid”, simply said “yes”. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton did not publicly object to this assessment of the treaty.

Witnessing the extraordinary cage fight this week between Volodomyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump in the Oval Office provided an eye-popping glimpse into what is normally kept behind closed doors when world leaders meet to nut out matters of great consequence.

The two presidents loudly talked over each other, eyeballs rolling, aggressively gesticulating and contradicting each other, with occasional interjections by Vice-President JD Vance – “I think it’s disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media!”

I do not believe that Russia, China or the United Kingdom or for that matter the United States or France should dictate Irish foreign policy or should dictate when we do or do not deploy troops.