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DW interviews Ben Hodges: ‘Threatening Greenland is strategic madness’

2026.01.15 /
Ben Hodges: 'Threatening Greenland is strategic madness' | DW News

Greenland, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela ‒ In a wide-ranging conversation with DW Washington Bureau Chief Ines Pohl, retired US General Ben Hodges offers a blunt and deeply critical assessment of the US’ current foreign and security policy.

Hodges warns of serious damage to NATO, questions the lack of long-term strategy behind recent military actions, and explains why Ukraine is far from losing — and why that still matters for Europe’s security.

Russia behind cyberattack on Polish energy infrastructure

2026.01.15 /

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday, January 15, 2026, there are strong reasons to believe a group connected to Russian secret services was behind a December cyberattack on Poland’s power grid last month.

“There are many reasons to believe… that they were prepared by groups directly linked to the Russian services, I don’t want to speculate, but I don’t think we have any doubts about the sources of inspiration,” Tusk told a press conference.

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Something is brewing along the Colombia‒Venezuela border

2026.01.14 /

Around 4:40 a.m. on Jan. 6, just a few days after the US capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, armed men intercepted a bus carrying civilians and several policemen on the main highway near Tibú, a town on the Colombian side of the border with Venezuela. They ordered passengers to hand over their phones for inspection, and then proceeded to kidnap five police officers.

The assailants were members of the National Liberation Army, or E.L.N., a Colombian guerrilla group that started off mounting a leftist insurgency in the 1960s but has since expanded into criminal enterprises. As many as half of its roughly 6,300 fighters are now based in Venezuela, where they have, at least until this month, enjoyed an alliance of mutual convenience with the government.

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Pentagon is integrating Grok AI into classified networks

2026.01.14 /

US Secretary of War Hegseth announced Monday January 12, 2026 that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will be integrated into Pentagon classified systems and will join Google’s generative AI engine in operating within the Pentagon’s infrastructure.

The current administration’s aggressive embrace of developing AI technology contrasts sharply with former President Joe Biden administration’s cautious approach, which emphasized safeguards and responsible-use guidelines.

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2025 was the third hottest year on record

2026.01.13 /

2025 was the third hottest on record and stood on the cusp of surpassing a major climate threshold globally, according to new data from Copernicus, the European climate agency.

The data indicates 2025 was about 1.47 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels, following 2024’s record-setting 1.6 degrees. When 2023 is added to the mix, it’s the first three-year period on record to exceed 1.5 degrees, the data suggests.

2025 was a hot year. What did it mean for Canada?

Chatham House Director warns ‘This does mark the end of the Western alliance’

2026.01.13 /

Bronwen Maddox, Director and Chief Executive of the Chatham House international affairs think-tank, gave her annual lecture at the institution’s London headquarters on January 13, 2026, said, ‘We have had from President Trump what amounts to a revolution. He has given the US a radically new role in the world and – at the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence – a role that rejects the principles on which the US was founded: that government should be accountable to the people.’

Maddox added, ‘Most profound, we have had the rejection of principles of international law that the US helped forge – even if it often declined to apply those to itself. Venezuela brandished that rejection to the world, followed by the President’s intention to acquire Greenland.

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US senators introduce bill to prevent the US military from occupying or annexing NATO territories, including Greenland

2026.01.13 /

The bipartisan legislation would prohibit the Pentagon and the US State Department from using funds appropriated by Congress to “blockade, occupy, annex, conduct military operations against, or otherwise assert control” over the territory of a NATO member state.

The legislation from senator Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, and Republican senator Lisa Murkowski comes as lawmakers in both parties have expressed alarm over President Donald Trump’s renewed interest in acquiring Greenland after the US recently captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.

Trump on Sunday said the US would have the Danish territory “one way or the other”.

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Financial Times: US Senate introduces bill to stop military from occupying NATO territories https://www.ft.com/content/c8b309a0-d214-4bb7-9630-bfcaa91925a3

Canadian Coast Guard to build a new maintenance facility in Sydney to service icebreakers

2026.01.13 /

Mike Kelloway, the Liberal MP for Sydney-Glace Bay, made the announcement on behalf of Defence Minister David McGuinty on Tuesday at the Canadian Coast Guard Academy.

The new facility will be “a next step towards continued strategic investments in Canada’s security and sovereignty in the Arctic,” Kelloway said before a crowd of about 200 coast guard officials, politicians and business and industry leaders.

“By strengthening our Arctic presence, we are protecting vital national interests and reinforcing Canada’s ability to respond to challenges in one of the most important regions for our future.”

Source:

Tom Ayers, CBC: Coast guard selects Sydney harbour for icebreaker maintenance facility https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/coast-guard-selects-sydney-for-icebreaker-maintenance-9.7043609

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