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Claims that Ukrainian intelligence deliberately fed “distorted” or false information to U.S. partners as a test — and that those distortions then reached Russian forces — have circulated in foreign me...
There is no reliable, independently verified evidence that Ukraine and France deliberately fed false classified intelligence to the Trump administration as a sting to see whether it would be leaked to...
The available reporting does not show definitive evidence that a global, all‑out World War III is imminent, but multiple expert scenarios and rising geopolitical flashpoints make the risk non‑negligib...
Congress has moved aggressively to constrain any unilateral U.S. military seizure of Greenland, but its votes are mixed: lawmakers introduced multiple bills and resolutions expressly to bar force or r...
China is now the dominant buyer of Venezuelan oil, taking roughly 80% of exports in recent months (about 746,000 bpd in November) and absorbing large volumes of fuel oil and methanol as well (136,000 ...
Estimates of how many Christians were killed under the Bolsheviks are not presented as a single, agreed total in the sources provided; reporting documents mass closures, imprisonments, and targeted ex...
Comparisons between Donald Trump’s policies and Adolf Hitler’s regime appear frequently in opinion pieces and commentary, but reporting and historians cited in the available sources emphasize both par...
European governments and the UK have continued to impose and renew sanctions on Russia through 2025 even as the Trump administration has shifted U.S. policy and at times failed to join or actively coo...
Germany has publicly discussed and begun planning a stepped-up NATO role in Greenland and the Arctic, and German naval activity tied to NATO patrols in northern waters has been reported — but definiti...
Pituffik Space Base — long known as Thule Air Base — is the United States’ sole remaining military installation in Greenland, maintained under a 1951 defence agreement with Denmark and operated as a S...
No credible reporting in the supplied sources shows the UK or the EU have imposed sanctions on the United States; available sources instead document coordinated Western sanctions primarily targeting R...
Venezuelan oil is simultaneously "good" and "problematic": the country sits on some of the world's largest crude reserves, but most of that resource is extra‑heavy, technically demanding to produce an...
Most mainstream analysts judge the chance of a global, multi‑continent “World War III” erupting in 2025–2026 as real enough to monitor closely but not inevitable, with several reputable commentaries a...
There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that President Trump personally sold U.S. weapons to Russia; the mainstream record instead shows the Trump administration approving and accelerat...
No — there is no credible evidence that the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada or Australia have recently imposed sanctions on Donald Trump; that claim appears to be a false viral rumor flagge...
Reporting is mixed: several outlets initially listed Canada among NATO partners sending personnel to Denmark’s Greenland exercise, Operation Arctic Endurance, but official Canadian defence spokespeopl...
Available sources do not record any foreign governments that have imposed personal sanctions on Donald Trump; reporting in the current dataset instead documents U.S. domestic measures by the Biden and...
Multiple reports and watchdog posts show numerous YouTube channels and videos using a fabricated Rachel Maddow voice or likeness and that Maddow’s team says authentic content comes from the MS NOW umb...
Vladimir Putin and others have in which Russia or Soviet leaders purportedly explored joining NATO, but the historical record shows these were informal overtures or post-hoc claims rather than a docum...
The Senate has moved to legally bar U.S. military and diplomatic funds from being used to blockade, occupy, annex or otherwise assert control over the sovereign territory of any NATO member — legislat...