Authored by Nikolas Gvosdev via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Will a future, formal Trump-Putin summit be a game changer?
Last week, I noted that any encounter between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin that would take place at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Da Nang, Vietnam, would have to address two critical questions if there was to be any clarity in U.S.-Russia relations.
We’ve now gotten a first draft of answers.
Was Brexit also Putin’s fault?
The simmering anti-Russia hysteria that has emerged in the UK recently has finally boiled over, and it appears last night’s story in the Times of London claiming that a swarm of Twitter bots reportedly created by a troll farm possibly linked to Russian intelligene (sound familiar?) posted more than 45,000 messages about Brexit in 48 hours during last year’s referendum to try and “so discord” among the public was the grain of rice that tipped the scale.
Authored by Andrei Akulov via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
The EU on Nov.13 officially launched a new era in defense cooperation with a program of joint military investment in equipment, research and development, known as permanent structured cooperation, or PESCO.
Foreign and defense ministers gathered at a signing ceremony in Brussels to represent 23 EU governments joining the pact, which is to become legally binding when signed by heads of state at EU summit in mid-December.
It's been a while...
The S&P 500 and USDJPY were utterly inseparable today...
Futures show the swings better once again...with the late day fade on Senator Johnson...
European Stocks are back at 2-month lows after falling for 7 straight days - the longest losing streak since early November last year.
This time there is no US election 'surprise' to rescue them!
Given the massive ECB buying program throughout Europe, it is the stock market that is leading the HY bond market lower (after the latter saw spreads crash to a record low 179bps at the start of November)...