The U.S. outlet The Diplomat has retracted the article propagandists cited, admitting that its interview with the head of the South Korean defense company Newtype Industries was fabricated.
When Ukrainian drones struck data centers in Russia, there were hopes a potent Kremlin shadow war weapon had been blunted. The reality is more complex.
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared last week that Ukrainians have no right to the occupied regions of their own country. “I think it is not their territory, but the historical territory of Russia,” he stated.
The summer of 2025 will go down in history as the moment when the foundations of Western security architecture—concepts such as “democracy,” “freedom,” and “border integrity”—were replaced in American public debate by one short word: “Deal.