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The democracies of the West are moving closer together, they are courting Indo-Pacific partners. But an authoritarian bloc around Russia and China is also striving for dominance. The reports about war and political crises, Corona and rising inflation are driving people. It is easy to lose sight of the fact that a new world order is currently emerging. The dividing lines of the next generation are drawn: between the West and the rest of the nations, between liberal democracies and illiberal autocracies, between those who join the alliances that are currently emerging and those who pursue their own interests independently of them. First of all, Vladimir Putin has achieved what would have been unthinkable without his warlike expansionism. The transatlantic partnership, the European Union and NATO are more united, more determined, more security-conscious and more defensive than they have been for a long time. The alliance is now also joined by the two Scandinavian neutrals, Sweden and Finl...

No more tobacco trade, make oil imports more difficult: the government in Washington wants to tighten the punitive measures against North Korea. China and Russia are likely to veto. After North Korea tested a suspected ICBM, the United States called a UN Security Council vote on tougher sanctions against the communist country. The goal is to weaken the regime in Pyongyang to such an extent that it can no longer continue "its illegal programs for weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles." Further restrictions on the country's oil imports are under discussion. The draft resolution, which is also available to the dpa news agency, also provides for a complete stop to the North Korean tobacco trade; this source of income is to be dried up. Sanctions are also planned against the North Korean hacker group Lazarus, whose assets are to be frozen. Where Guns Count More Than Children's Lives North Korea had previously fired three missiles immediately after US President...

Russian President Putin has mobilized the world's largest nuclear force. Western and NATO politicians see dangerous "powers set in motion". The United States has criticized the Russian nuclear forces' state of alert. Russian President Vladimir Putin is conjuring up alleged threats "to justify further aggression," White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told ABC. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke of Putin's "dangerous rhetoric". The behavior of the Russian president was "irresponsible," Stoltenberg told CNN. A US Department of Defense official said the US had no reason to doubt Putin's order. However, it is unclear how it will be implemented. Putin's step was "unnecessary because Russia has never been threatened by the West or by NATO and certainly not by Ukraine," said the Pentagon representative.  Explosions In Kyiv Putin's order also threatens to escalate the situation because "powers are set in moti...

The fighting for the capital is apparently ongoing. Negotiations should start early in the morning on the border with Belarus. The most important events of the night. The Russian offensive against the Ukrainian capital Kyiv will continue, according to the Ukrainian military. In northern Kiev, the Russian army tried to build a pontoon bridge to cross the Irpin River, the Ukrainian General Staff wrote on Facebook. Another attempt to capture the city of Irpin just before Kyiv was unsuccessful. According to a report by the State Information Service of Ukraine, there have been several explosions in the metropolises of Kiev and Kharkiv. Before that, it had been quiet in the capital for several hours. According to the information service, a rocket is said to have hit a residential building in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, not far from the border with Belarus. The information could not be independently verified. According to the media, talks about a possible peace solution between the warri...