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Nuclear Weapons
France allocates an additional €36 billion for defense in 2026–2030
PARIS (Realist English). On April 9, French Armed Forces Minister Catherine Vautrin presented to lawmakers an updated military budget for 2026–2030,...
Experts doubt China will join US nuclear talks soon
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States is unlikely to bring China into nuclear arms control negotiations in the near term,...
Putin convenes Security Council over Trump’s call to resume U.S. nuclear testing
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin chaired an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Friday to discuss Washington’s...
Macron signals openness to stationing French nuclear weapons abroad
PARIS (Realist English). French President Emmanuel Macron has announced his readiness to initiate formal discussions with European allies about the...
Putin: Restraint on nuclear response prevented global catastrophe
MOSCOW (Realist English). President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia deliberately refrained from using nuclear weapons during the ongoing conflict...
States invest in nuclear arsenals as geopolitical relations deteriorate — SIPRI
STOCKHOLM (Realist English). A Swedish think tank has sounded the alarm over the growing number of operational nuclear weapons in...
Russia has no more trump cards in the nuclear deck than in the conventional one: political scientist
MOSCOW (Realist English). Moscow's decision to suspend the implementation of START-3 (in terms of ensuring the inspection regime) has generated...
Nuclear-armed nations spent $82.4 billion to modernize their arsenals in 2021
GENEVA (Realist English). The world's leading military powers have spent $82.4 billion to modernize their nuclear weapons in 2021. This...
Armenian battalion named after Marshal Bagramyan established in Donetsk: veterans of Abkhazia hand over their banner to Donbas volunteers
MOSCOW (Realist English). On 6 May, a historic ceremony of handing over a battle banner took place at the Cathedral of...
Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
Is Iran’s survival not a victory? Tehran under US and Israeli pressure
TEL AVIV (Realist English). For decades, Iran defined victory in expansive terms: exporting revolution, rolling back US influence, and ultimately eliminating...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
Will Trump and Xi Agree on a New World Order?
BEIJING (Realist English). Relations between the United States and China in May 2026 can best be described as an “armed...
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