Laurence Arnold

Dec 29, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Laurence Arnold

Jimmy Carter, the former Georgia peanut farmer who as US president brokered a historic and lasting peace accord between Israel and Egypt in a single term marred by soaring inflation, an oil shortage and Iran’s holding of American hostages, has died, the Washington Post reported. He was 100. Carter died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, the Post said, citing his son James E. Carter III.

Dec 8, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Laurence Arnold

Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president who inherited power in 2000 with promises of reform, only to brutally suppress his opponents in a war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, has been toppled in a lightning rebel advance, according to state television. Assad, according to multiple reports, fled Damascus as Islamist-led opposition forces entered the capital and put an end to more than half-a-century of his family’s rule.

Nov 20, 2024 | fortune.com | Laurence Arnold |Ramsey Al-Rikabi

A distinctive feature of Russia’s military tactics has been that it doesn’t rule out using nuclear weapons in a conventional war. Now, President Vladimir Putin has lowered the bar further for deploying tactical and more powerful strategic atomic weapons, in a broad overhaul of his country’s nuclear doctrine. The shift comes just as the US eased restrictions on Ukrainian forces firing American weapons into Russian territory.

Nov 19, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Laurence Arnold |Ramsey Al-Rikabi

A distinctive feature of Russia’s military tactics has been that it doesn’t rule out using nuclear weapons in a conventional war. Now, President Vladimir Putin has lowered the bar further for deploying tactical and more powerful strategic atomic weapons, in a broad overhaul of his country’s nuclear doctrine. The shift comes just as the US eased restrictions on Ukrainian forces firing American weapons into Russian territory.

Nov 19, 2024 | bnnbloomberg.ca | Laurence Arnold |Ramsey Al-Rikabi

(Bloomberg) -- A distinctive feature of Russia’s military tactics has been that it doesn’t rule out using nuclear weapons in a conventional war. Now, President Vladimir Putin has lowered the bar further for deploying tactical and more powerful strategic atomic weapons, in a broad overhaul of his country’s nuclear doctrine. The shift comes just as the US eased restrictions on Ukrainian forces firing American weapons into Russian territory.