Jamie Gaskarth critiques Trump officials’ disregard for intelligence and defence secrecy risks.
Jamie Gaskarth, a professor of foreign policy & international Relations at Open University, analyses the Trump administration’s apparent lack of respect for the sensitivities surrounding intelligence and defence secrets.
United States and Russian officials have met in Saudi Arabia for the first high-level talks between the two countries since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, along with other senior officials, met on Tuesday morning in Riyadh’s Diriyah Palace. The…
Just before midnight on March 7, 1928, the St Francis Dam, located roughly 80km (50 miles) inland of Los Angeles, collapsed. There were no witnesses to the disaster – or none who survived – but investigators later determined that the 56-metre-tall (184ft-) barrier fell all at once, sending 12.4 billion gallons of water surging down…
NewsFeed Trump: Putin has ‘no problem’ with European peacekeepers in Ukraine Donald Trump told reporters he thinks Vladimir Putin would have “no problem” with European soldiers acting as peacekeepers in Ukraine after having specifically asked him that question. Published On 24 Feb 202524 Feb 2025
New United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio assured Manila of Washington’s “ironclad” commitment to defending the Philippines in the face of Chinese provocation in the South China Sea, during his first call with Philippines Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo. Rubio also criticised Beijing’s “dangerous and destabilising actions in the South China Sea” in the call…
Counting the Cost Why is Donald Trump pivoting to fossil fuels? The president says he is unleashing oil in a dramatic U-turn in US energy policy. Read more President Donald Trump says he will increase oil output and unleash the United States energy industry. He’s also declared a national energy emergency. While oil companies might…
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has said it will accept parcels from China again, reversing a suspension that followed President Donald Trump’s decision to end a trade provision used by retailers to ship low-value packages duty-free to the US. USPS said in a statement that it would continue accepting “all international inbound mail and…
