“We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to unleash innovation and use it to improve the lives of countless American citizens,” Vance said in his address. “But if we fail to create regulatory clarity now, we risk chasing this $3 trillion industry offshore in search of a friendly jurisdiction.”
How might Russia react to the news?Moscow has yet to comment on Germany’s move to collaborate with Ukraine in developing long-range missiles in the country.
Russia has consistently warned that Western-provided weapons striking inside the country would be seen as an escalation, one that Putin said in September could attract nuclear retaliation. But Merz’s move attempts to circumvent that threat.After Merz’s election victory in April and his continued assuredness of his willingness to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova repeated that Russia would take a Taurus strike as Germany’s “direct” involvement in the war.The Kremlin has also reacted to Merz’s comments this week, according to the Russian news agency TASS. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Merz “has confused everyone, if not himself”, after the vice chancellor denied that such decisions had been made. Peskov warned Berlin against an escalation, saying it would be an “extremely dangerous decision” that goes against ongoing peace efforts.
“It is literally several steps towards additional confrontation,” he said.Zakharova added that Germany would “drive itself deeper into the hole in which the Kyiv regime it supports has long been”.
“It is doubtful that the head of the German government was or is authorised by anyone to make such statements on behalf of other countries,” she added.
The recent India-Pakistan confrontation made it quite clear the most dangerous weapon they have is narrative.Investigators used video surveillance footage and mobile phone tracking to establish the musicians’ last movements, Barrios said.
Nine firearms and two vehicles were seized, he said.More than 480,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence and organised crime, and about 120,000 people have gone missing, in Mexico.
Judge rules that companies ‘may be obligated to take preventive measures’ to counter their emissions.A German court has thrown out a Peruvian farmer’s lawsuit seeking damages from RWE for the German energy utility’s alleged role in putting his hometown at risk through climate change, but set a potentially important precedent on polluters’ liability for their carbon emissions.