News Roundup 6/25/21

by | Jun 25, 2021

News Roundup 6/25/21

by | Jun 25, 2021

News Roundup from The Libertarian Institute by Kyle Anzalone

China

  • Pentagon whistleblower Franz Gayl penned an open letter to Biden warning of war with China. [Link]
  • The State Department approves the sale of F-16s and missiles to the Philippines. [Link]
  • The US and China may hold talks on the sidelines of the G20 meeting next week. [Link]

EU

  • The EU imposed sanctions on Belarus’s banking and petroleum sectors. [Link]

Afghanistan

  • US officials are planning to allow interpreters, and their families, who worked with the US to leave Afghanistan before US troops withdrawal. It is unclear where the US plans to relocate the Afghans. The US believes as many as 50,000 will be seeking to leave the country. [Link]

Iran

  • A State Department official says serious differences remain between the US and Iran in negotiations to save the JCPOA. [Link]
  • A small building that is a part of Iran’s nuclear energy program was attacked. Iran says the attack was thwarted. An unnamed US intelligence official said Israel proposed attacking the site in 2020. [Link]

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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