Russia has announced that it is ending this agreement with Germany - RT(Jul 2025): Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed the Foreign Ministry to inform Berlin that the 1996 pact – which has guided defense collaboration for nearly three decades – is no longer valid, according to a resolution signed on Friday ... In July, the ministry said the agreement lost its relevance due to what it described as Germany’s “openly hostile” policy and increasingly aggressive military ambitions...| Recent Questions - Politics Stack Exchange
There is little doubt that the US embargoes on Japan pushed an already aggressive Japan towards Pearl Harbor. Japanese Navy doctrine had already been contemplating a conflict with the US and this gave them the choice of backing down or going to war. Beginning in 1938, the U.S. adopted a succession of increasingly restrictive trade restrictions with Japan. This included terminating its 1911 commercial treaty with Japan in 1939, further tightened by the Export Control Act of 1940. These efforts...| Recent Questions - History Stack Exchange
Interpreters are sworn, and they can't translate sentences treacherously. It's what I'm believing being sure to start this question. But a few weeks ago, an envoy used the translation services of the foreign country he was in (the ones provided by the government of that country) to negotiate*, instead of coming with his own interpreter, as is expected. Apart from the surprise he caused, what are the concrete risks he could face by doing so? --- *Trump envoy relied on Kremlin interpreter in me...| Recent Questions - Politics Stack Exchange
Quite recently, the Trump administration announced that it will not issue visas to Palestinian leaders, to attend an upcoming UN General Assembly, for "internationalising" the Gaza genocide in ICC and ICJ and seeking international support against Israel: The Week(Aug 2025): The justifications given by Washington are wide-ranging. The State Department accuses the Palestinians of failing to repudiate terrorism, pointing to the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on October 7, 2023. It also cit...| Recent Questions - Politics Stack Exchange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnelcDyxA00&t=1579s I am referring to this lecture. Mehran Kamrava claims that the terms of the Peace agreement were so skewed that it made Palestine statehood impossible. Among these were 3 things: The leadership chose policies that sustained the status quo instead of working towards statehood. Dividing Palestine into 3 parts, 1 ruled by the Israel, 1 ruled jointly by Israeli military with Palestinian Civilian govts. and another under Palestinian control Givin...| Recent Questions - Politics Stack Exchange
It was recently reported in the New York Times that the US government is refusing to issue a visa to Hamid Aboutalebi, who was recently nominated as Iran's ambassador to the United Nations. Since ...| Politics Stack Exchange