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Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) looks on during a meeting with US President Joe Biden (second left) Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (right) and Foreign Secretary David Lammy (second right) in the Blue Room at the White House in Washington DC, September 13, 2024
“HE’S bluffing until he isn’t.”
Those were the scarcely reassuring words of the former British ambassador to Washington, Kim Darroch, discussing the dangers of Russian President Putin’s possible response to British missiles being fired into Russian territory.
Yet doing just that is still the preference of the Keir Starmer government and the purpose of the Prime Minister’s visit to Washington to confer with President Joe Biden last week.
SEVIM DAGDELEN asks why the European Union is targeting the Swiss academic Jacques Baud, cutting off his access to banking services
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pouring €11.5bn into the Kiev swamp, blocking Trump’s peace plan, and pushing Nato right up to Russia’s borders – no matter if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
