New 2025 military aid to Ukraine is on track to be the lowest since 2022. European pledges have sharply slowed, failing to offset the halted U.S. support. While Germany, France, and the UK increased aid, they still trail Nordic nations relative to GDP. Italy and Spain contributed very little, widening disparities and weakening Europe's overall response.
Ukraine Support Tracker: Europe fails to offset US aid drop
New aid allocations in 2025 might drop to their lowest level since the outbreak of the war in 2022. Europe allocated only about EUR 4.2 billion in ...
Special refrigerated cabinets stocked with food items donated by nearby supermarkets and bakeries are appearing on streets of Shenzhen, offering immediate support while combating food waste. #china
It's very on the nose to have a victims of communism memorial with no names on it. 😆
Why Ottawa abandoned names on the new communism memorial | Ottawa Citizen
 #canada #cdnpoli #socialism
Risk of recession returns as German industrial production plunges in August. Extremely disappointing industrial data in August has just increased the risk of yet another quarter of contraction for the German economy. https://think.ing.com/snaps/german-industrial-production-aug25 #germany #economy
Europe’s sole supplier of TNT, in Poland, sends much of its production to US, which exports to facilitate the genocide in Gaza by Israel.
the Guardian
TNT that Europe needs to defend itself is being used on Gaza, Polish MP claims
Maciej Konieczny claims Europe’s sole supplier, in Poland, sends much of its production to US, which exports it for use by Israel
 #europe #gaza #poland #genocide
The US is pulling a "Khrushchev" on Europe. Trump's push for "peaceful coexistence" with rivals, paired with a new US strategy retreating from global hegemony, mirrors the Soviet pivot that betrayed Mao in the 1960s. Europe, like China then, is the stunned junior partner realizing its senior ally's commitment was always conditional.
America's Khrushchev moment
There is no more tired cliché than Mark Twain’s quote “history rarely repeats itself, but it often rhymes”.
 #usa #europe #geopolitics
Automatically translated preprints from the Chinese arXiv (ChinaXiv).
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Machine-translated preprints from ChinaXiv (Chinese arXiv)
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