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All eyes are on Russia this week as the West’s growing docket of financial penalties deal a harder-than-expected blow to the country’s economy, challenging a decades-long effort by President Vladimir Putin to make the system sanction-proof. To add to the economic blowback, Corporate America and a growing number of multinational companies have joined in protest of Moscow’s military attack on Ukraine, moving to sever business dealings with Russia or take a stand in support for Ukrainian… Source link

BRUSSELS, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc and YouTube should ban users pushing war propaganda as part of measures to stop disinformation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, EU industry chief Thierry Breton told the chief executives of the two companies on Sunday. Alphabet’s Google on Saturday barred Russia’s state-owned media outlet RT and other channels from receiving money for ads on their websites, apps and YouTube videos, similar to a move by Facebook after the invasion of Ukraine. read… Source link

WASHINGTON — As the invasion of Ukraine continued on Friday morning, including near the capital city, Kyiv, one of Russia’s leading television stations aired a history lesson on an 18th century battle between German and Russian forces in Poland. It was the kind of nationalistic propaganda typical of media coverage in a nation where the Kremlin exercises near-universal control. That control is evident in print, radio and television. However, it also appears to be slipping, which could… Source link

Last month, when the U.S. State Department began urging American citizens to leave Ukraine, Jerome Randle’s phone started buzzing incessantly. Friends and family in America would send Randle media reports detailing Russia’s extraordinary military buildup along its border with Ukraine. They then begged the Chicago native to pack up his belongings and return home before it was too late. “At least 50 people must have hit me up,” Randle, 34, told Yahoo Sports. “They were all saying,… Source link

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens a humanitarian disaster of catastrophic proportions. Already, hundreds of casualties have been reported, and thousands of people have fled the country. It could get much worse. The war in Eastern Europe, like all conflicts, is devastating. But it’s also hard to turn away from. Millions of people around the world have tuned into social media sites over the past few days as a modern war has played out in real time. All… Source link

Donald Trump, the American president from 2017 to 2021, said he knew more about trade than most economists and foreign-policy experts. “Trade wars are good, and easy to win,” Trump famously declared in 2018. He described himself as a “Tariff Man” and proved it by imposing new tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. imports, to be paid by the American firms buying those goods. Trump’s dubious logic was that making imports costlier to Americans would hurt the foreign… Source link

In response to the rising threat of a Russian military invasion of Ukraine, NATO forces in the region have begun mobilizing. Spain announced Thursday that two of its warships were en route to the Black Sea, the body of water that borders southern Ukraine, to partake in military exercises originally planned for later this year. Spain may also send fighter jets to Bulgaria, where the Dutch government is sending F-35s, while, according to military analyst Gustav Gressel, senior policy fellow at… Source link

The Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a $768 billion defense policy bill that directs the president to create a “grand strategy” to address global economic and military threats posed by China. That vote came as news emerged that U.S. military commanders have created a software tool designed to predict how China will react to U.S. activities in the area, such as U.S. officials’ visits to Taiwan. In a new interview taped Monday, billionaire hedge fund titan Ray Dalio said a military… Source link

Tensions in the South China Sea have been percolating for years now. Even in relatively calm times when the battling claimants of the contested waters manage to stay out of the headlines, the reality out on the sea is rarely tranquil. In fact, a recent report from the South China Morning Post has revealed that Chinese boats have been harassing Civilian vessels in the Malaysian and Vietnamese portions of the South China Sea “on a daily basis” for years. Extending from Singapore and the… Source link

A worker produces carpets that will be exported, at a factory in Binzhou in China’s eastern Shandong province on October 20, 2021. China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images) In Washington, DC, China is the new Russia. Its rapid military buildup includes advanced weaponry that rivals American prowess. Much of its technology is stolen from the United States and other advanced nations. Menacing incursions threaten Taiwan and other American allies, prompting the magazine Foreign Affairs to… Source link