"The US provided no evidence whatsoever to back up these claims, and it appears that what the US was doing was signaling its dissatisfaction with the treaty that, while bilateral in nature, allowed China, for instance, to have intermediate-range missiles. Rather than negotiate with the Chinese directly, the United States withdrew from the treaty. The Russians didn't overreact. They were unhappy with this turn of events, but they said so long as the United States doesn't deploy intermediate-range systems into Europe, Russia's not going to build new intermediate systems nor deploy them,” Ritter recalled.

“Now the United States is talking about deploying a new system, the two-stage Dark Eagle intermediate-range system with hypersonic reentry vehicles. And the Russians have said enough is enough. So now Russia is talking about not only starting to build their own intermediate nuclear systems but deploying them. We're back to square one. The world is a much more dangerous place today because of the actions of the United States,” the observer said.

“It really makes the world more dangerous as a consequence. And certainly, it…put Europe in greater peril because of this. And it's all because of the United States,” veteran former Pentagon senior security policy analyst Michael Maloof told Sputnik, commenting on the fifth anniversary of the Trump administration’s unilateral decision to scrap the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

“At the end of July, Europe imported 1.5 million metric tons of LNG from the US, just slightly more than the 1.3 million tons the region imported from Russia in the same period,” Business Insider wrote, citing data from the US Department of Energy.

“If you have that gold outside, you can get a profit, and the reality is that the country needs to maximize the return on its assets,” Caputo argued.

"Even if Argentina doesn't commit an infraction, that physical gold won't return to Argentina. There's a shortage, and the last thing they'll do is return that gold, even if a future Argentine government claims it," Valerdi stressed.

“If Argentina misbehaves with NATO or if the US dislikes a future government, they will automatically seize that gold, as they did with Russia, and likely with other countries,” Valerdi explained.

“This was a failure. We should have had better protection for the protectee. We should have had better coverage on that roofline,” Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe said, commenting on the assassination attempt of former US President Donald Trump on July 13.

"Secretary Austin has ordered additional ballistic missile defense-capable cruisers and destroyers to the US European Command and US Central Command regions," read a statement from Defense Department deputy spokeswoman Sabrina Singh. "The Department is also taking steps to increase our readiness to deploy additional land-based ballistic missile defense."

"I have agreed with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th... The FoxNews Debate will be held in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at a site in an area to be determined," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“The Israelis wrongly believe that their claimed right to provoke anybody, anywhere, anytime will scare their enemies, I am afraid this calculus does not work anymore, if it ever worked,” he stated. Israel’s decades-long policy of assassinations has not weakened the Hamas movement at all, the CEO of MC Geopolicy consultancy noted, adding:
“I believe that the Palestinian society will continue to struggle against the Israeli occupation as it did so in the last decades. Once a Palestinian leader is eliminated, another one is immediately ready to step in.”

“It is a purely psychological move aimed to show its superiority and its impunity to push the others to adjust to its policy and to bend to its will,” he remarked.

“Therefore, if the continuation of the conflict is useful for his staying in power, as he apparently believes, he will not spare any efforts to extend his grip on Israel’s premiership. If the Axis of Resistance will react, Netanyahu can claim the existence of a permanent state of war and further justify his staying in power and the impossibility to go to early elections,” Dr. Carnelos concluded.

"To that end, the government did not make the coupon payment on its 2026 Eurobond Aug. 1, 2024, when the payment was due... We therefore lowered our long-term and short-term foreign currency (FC) ratings on Ukraine to 'SD/SD' (selective default) from 'CC/C' and our issue ratings on the sovereign's 2026 Eurobond to 'D' (default) from 'CC.'"