Emmanuel Macron Says France's Fate Is "Tied To The African Continent"

After Four Years Of War, Zelensky Wants All Land Back Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Tuesday marks four years since Russia first launched its invasion of Ukraine, and, despite President Trump promising to end the war quickly, there's no end in sight to the conflict as Russian and Ukrainian leadership haven't budged on their core demands for a peace deal. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reaffirmed in an interview with the BBC over the weekend that he wouldn’t cede the territory Ukraine still controls in the eastern Donbas region and defined "victory" as Ukraine regaining...

Conference Board Consumer Survey Signals Ugly Job Market, Weakest 'Present Situation' In Over 5 Years Amid a plethora of revisions (lower), The Conference Board's measure of Americans' Consumer Confidence rose very modestly in June (from 90.6 to 91.2 - a big miss on the headline print's expectation of 94.4). However, while Expectations rose to their highest level of the year, the Present Situation tumbled to its lowest since March 2021... “Consumer confidence inched up in June as falling oil prices in recent weeks provided some relief to consumer inflation fears,” said Dana...

Ukrainian Expert Dismisses Trump Pledge On Patriot Missile License As Empty PR President Trump's declaration from the NATO summit in Turkey this week saying that he'll give Ukraine a license to produce Patriot defense systems has been met with a lot of skepticism, both among Ukrainians and internationally.  "We’ll give them the right to make Patriots. We’ll show them how to do it," Trump had said. "I think they can produce them pretty quickly." via Associated Press Zelensky seized on the opening, telling reports on Thursday, "America has recognized Ukraine as a country...