• Remastered ‘Advance Wars’-like Turn-Based Strategy Title ‘Warbits Plus’ is Launching on May 7th, Pre-Orders Live Now

    Oh boy. Would you believe that tomorrow is the ten-year anniversary of our very first post about the then-upcoming Warbits from Risky Lab? I'm always shocked when something that feels like it was only yesterday actually was a decade ago. Anyway, as a quick recap Warbits was Risky Lab's take on the classic Advance Wars series of turn-based strategy games.

  • Ukraine war briefing: Donald Trump says survival of Ukraine important to the US

    Former president’s comments are being described as a shift in tone days before Republicans vote on a multibillion-dollar aid package. What we know on day 786See all our Ukraine war coverageDonald Trump has said the survival of Ukraine is important to the US, in what Reuters describes as a shift in tone days before Republicans are due to vote on a $61bn aid package in the US House of Representatives. “As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to Europe than...

  • Sullivan says Ukraine supplemental should cover all of 2024, long-range ATACMS now in Ukraine

    "We now have a significant number of ATACMS coming off their production line and entering US stocks," Jake Sullivan said today. "And as a result, we can move forward with providing the ATACMS while also sustaining the readiness of the US armed forces.”

  • Ukraine war briefing: Ukraine’s army chief says eastern front has ‘deteriorated significantly’

    Ukraine’s Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi says Russia has intensified armoured assaults as battles rages over village near Bakhmut. What we know on day 781See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageGermany will supply a US-made Patriot air defence system and air defence missiles to Ukraine at a “critical time”, as Kyiv struggles to defend its energy system from Russian bombardment, Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday. Zelenskiy said on the Telegram messaging app that he was grateful to Germany’s...

  • US anti-war activist Joe Allen to give talk on crisis of American politics and war in Gaza

    In a meeting organised by People Before Profit, the activist and author will deliver his talk at 7pm in St Columb’s Hall. Allen is the author of several books on US politics, foreign policy and Labour relations. These include, Vietnam the Last War the US lost, and his most recent book on the struggle for Trade Union rights within United Parcel Service. Allen has been active in radical politics for over four decades. Speaking ahead of the event on Wednesday evening in Derry, a spokesperson for...

  • Ukraine must win this war

    The funds are needed. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute outlined that Russia’s military spending increased by 24 per cent to an estimated $109bn in 2023, marking a 57 per cent rise since 2014, the year that Russia annexed Crimea. Not including international aid Ukraine’s spending surged to reach $64.8bn. Ukraine’s military spending in 2023 was 59 per cent the size of Russia’s. Therefore, this new package from the US, along with aid from allies across Europe and the world, will...

  • Feeling Like Summer For Now

    Piedmont highs approach 90° on what will be our hottest day of the year so far this Thursday afternoon, but cooler and rainier days aren't far away.

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  • Ukraine War Funding and Failed Russian Sanctions

    This past weekend, April 20, 2024 the US House of Representatives passed a bill to provide Ukraine with another $61 billion in aid. Then the meassure quickly passed the Senate and was signed into law by Biden within days. The funds, however, will make little difference to the outcome of the war on the ground More

  • We own a Chinese restaurant – now we’re at war with the council

    A CHINESE restaurant that painted parts of their building for good luck was ordered to return it to the original colours. The Casserole Wang on Edinburgh’s historic Candlemaker Row altered th

  • Republican Opposition to Ukraine Funding Now at 66%

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—New polling conducted this week sheds light on the contentious foreign aid bills currently under review by the House of Representatives, Read More