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Read-out of the phone call between President von der Leyen and Chinese Premier Li Qiang
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/read_25_1004
Says it in the last paragraph, financial pressures & not having your own home.
France holds rare defence cabinet meeting over Iran as tensions with US mount
They’re trying to gift themselves the USIP building aswell
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/
The Kremlin response:
Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin’s spokesperson, in response to Marine Le Pen’s verdict:
“Well, indeed, more and more European capitals are going down the path of trampling over democratic norms. Of course, we do not want to interfere in France’s internal affairs, we have never done so, and this is France’s internal affair.”
“But in general, our observations of European capitals show that they are not at all reluctant to go beyond democracy during the political process.”
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/europa-krieg-szenarien-bnd-bundeswehr-li.3227229
translation
Germany’s supreme soldier is convinced that Russia is preparing for a great war. Even after a possible ceasefire in Ukraine, Germany has no time “to take a deep breath”, says the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, Carsten Breuer. Russia continues to upgrade and has doubled the number of soldiers compared to pre-war times. The Russian military structure is clearly against the West. Therefore, an end to the war on Ukraine will not lead to “we have peace again on the European continent,” he said in the talk show “Maischberger” recently.
This coincides with the assessment of Jörg Schmitt, the deputy head of the investigative department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Together with colleagues from WDR and NDR, he was able to evaluate the situation analyses of the BND and the Bundeswehr. By the end of the decade, Russia could create the conditions for a large-scale conventional war against NATO, regardless of the war in Ukraine.
According to these sources, Moscow could try to test the Nato with various scenarios, says Schmitt. For example, by provocations in the Baltic region or in the Arctic. Vladimir Putin is concerned with exploring the US’s responsiveness and assistanceUSA.