News Roundup 3/9/2022

by | Mar 8, 2022

News Roundup 3/9/2022

by | Mar 8, 2022

News Roundup from The Libertarian Institute by Kyle Anzalone

US News

  • The Pentagon announces it will close its massive jet fuel tanks at Red Hill, Hawaii. [Link]

Russia

  • The Pentagon downplays the chances of Polish warplanes being transferred to Ukraine. [Link]
  • The US is concerned about Russia gaining control over Ukrainian bio-research labs funded by the US. [Link]
  • Secretary of State Antony Blinken says NATO is considering more permanent troop deployments in the Baltics. [Link]
  • The US is shipping weapons to Ukraine through a secret airfield in Eastern Europe. [Link]
  • Hungary will allow NATO troops in the country’s western region, but will not allow NATO to ship weapons to Ukraine through its borders. [Link]
  • The humanitarian corridor for the Ukrainian city Sumy allowed civilians to flee the fighting. [Link]
  • Lithuania rolled back a plan to donate covid vaccinations to Bangladesh because Bangladesh has refused to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. [Link]
  • The UK will begin reducing its dependence on Russian energy and plans to eliminate the imports by the end of the year. [Link]

Muddle East

  • Israel calls for the world to mobilize against Iran. [Link]
  • Israeli airstrikes killed two civilians in Syria. [Link]
  • Iran says two of its soldiers were killed by Israeli strikes in Syria this week. [Link]
  • February was the heaviest month of bombing in Yemen since 2018. [Link]

Africa

  • The Secretary of Defense signed a waiver to allow the US to continue to engage in war games with Marocco. [Link]

Articles by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter

US, UK Ban Russian Energy as Ukraine Invasion Sparks Trade War

About Kyle Anzalone

Kyle Anzalone is news editor of the Libertarian Institute, opinion editor of Antiwar.com and co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Will Porter and Connor Freeman.

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