"Brussels has left Europeans to fend for themselves, a change in EU leadership is needed," stated Hungary's Orban.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
👍65😁1
What are the secret societies pulling the global strings?
A rare glimpse into the shoulder rubbing and deal making that takes place at gatherings of Europe’s most secretive organization – the Institut International d’Etudes Bancaires – was offered by the Financial Times recently. Sputnik takes a look at some other mystery-steeped private platforms credited with pulling the strings of global decision-making.
• Skull and Bones
One of the most famous of all Ivy League secret societies is Skull and Bones. Steeped in mysterious rituals and symbols, this society of senior students at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, was founded in 1832. Many members went on to become wealthy and famous business leaders of the world, with the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers having reportedly all been members of the society. Three members – William Howard Taft, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush – went on to become US presidents.
•The Bohemian Club
Originally founded in 1872 by a group of San Francisco journalists, writers, actors, and lawyers as a fellowship of those positioning themselves as “free thinkers and liberals,” the Bohemian Club went on to become one of the most exclusive men’s clubs (or secret societies) in the US. While membership lists are a closely guarded secret, it is known that writers like Mark Twain and Jack London were among its early joiners, with Henry Kissinger, George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan believed to have been in attendance at the gatherings.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
A rare glimpse into the shoulder rubbing and deal making that takes place at gatherings of Europe’s most secretive organization – the Institut International d’Etudes Bancaires – was offered by the Financial Times recently. Sputnik takes a look at some other mystery-steeped private platforms credited with pulling the strings of global decision-making.
• Skull and Bones
One of the most famous of all Ivy League secret societies is Skull and Bones. Steeped in mysterious rituals and symbols, this society of senior students at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, was founded in 1832. Many members went on to become wealthy and famous business leaders of the world, with the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers having reportedly all been members of the society. Three members – William Howard Taft, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush – went on to become US presidents.
•The Bohemian Club
Originally founded in 1872 by a group of San Francisco journalists, writers, actors, and lawyers as a fellowship of those positioning themselves as “free thinkers and liberals,” the Bohemian Club went on to become one of the most exclusive men’s clubs (or secret societies) in the US. While membership lists are a closely guarded secret, it is known that writers like Mark Twain and Jack London were among its early joiners, with Henry Kissinger, George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan believed to have been in attendance at the gatherings.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🔥15🤬12💩9👍4❤2🤔1
Sputnik International
What are the secret societies pulling the global strings? A rare glimpse into the shoulder rubbing and deal making that takes place at gatherings of Europe’s most secretive organization – the Institut International d’Etudes Bancaires – was offered by the…
What are the secret societies pulling the global strings? (Part 2)
•The Rotary Club
The Rotary Club was founded in 1905, when attorney Paul P. Harris met with three of his business acquaintances in Chicago, Illinois. The name “Rotary” was chosen in a reference to the practice of meeting in rotation at the members’ various places of business. Rotary clubs position themselves as non-religious and non-political “charitable organizations” open to everyone. There are over 46,000 of these “clubs” around the world.
•The Bilderberg Club
Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg Club is an annual off-the-record meeting of North American and European elites, ostensibly aimed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America. It takes its name from the Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, the Netherlands, where its members first convened. The organization consists of at least 150 members who are invited by its “steering committee.” While it is self-styled as a ‘debating society’ beyond the political spotlight, critics claim the members represent a “shadow world government.”
• World Economic Forum
The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) gathering in Davos, Switzerland, is renowned as an exclusive club for the rich and powerful. The WEF has been led since its founding in 1971 by 82-year-old Swiss economist Klaus Schwab. The international non-governmental and lobbying organization typically holds its most highly anticipated event annually at the Swiss alpine resort town of Davos. Gaining entry to the Davos event reportedly costs about $28,000. While the WEF is touted as a platform for decision makers to discuss global problems, critics describe it as “an opaque venue for political and business leaders to take decisions without having to account to their electorate or shareholders.”
•The Rotary Club
The Rotary Club was founded in 1905, when attorney Paul P. Harris met with three of his business acquaintances in Chicago, Illinois. The name “Rotary” was chosen in a reference to the practice of meeting in rotation at the members’ various places of business. Rotary clubs position themselves as non-religious and non-political “charitable organizations” open to everyone. There are over 46,000 of these “clubs” around the world.
•The Bilderberg Club
Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg Club is an annual off-the-record meeting of North American and European elites, ostensibly aimed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America. It takes its name from the Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, the Netherlands, where its members first convened. The organization consists of at least 150 members who are invited by its “steering committee.” While it is self-styled as a ‘debating society’ beyond the political spotlight, critics claim the members represent a “shadow world government.”
• World Economic Forum
The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) gathering in Davos, Switzerland, is renowned as an exclusive club for the rich and powerful. The WEF has been led since its founding in 1971 by 82-year-old Swiss economist Klaus Schwab. The international non-governmental and lobbying organization typically holds its most highly anticipated event annually at the Swiss alpine resort town of Davos. Gaining entry to the Davos event reportedly costs about $28,000. While the WEF is touted as a platform for decision makers to discuss global problems, critics describe it as “an opaque venue for political and business leaders to take decisions without having to account to their electorate or shareholders.”
💩35🤬8👍5❤4🔥1🤔1
The G7 confirms its determination to withhold frozen Russian assets — foreign ministers.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
💩38🤬14😁2👎1
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
It [Maidan] was a big festival created for the western population'
Janus Putkonen, Finnish geopolitical analyst and investigative journalist with the Patriotic Network who worked in Kiev in April 2014, debunks the pretty picture of a 'popular uprising' staged for the Western public
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Janus Putkonen, Finnish geopolitical analyst and investigative journalist with the Patriotic Network who worked in Kiev in April 2014, debunks the pretty picture of a 'popular uprising' staged for the Western public
"It was created as a show to make it look like a popular uprising. And in order to to do that, they really used ordinary people," he added.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
❤15👍10😁1
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
'The truth and justice is for the Donbass people'
Janus Putkonen, Finnish geopolitical analyst and investigative journalist with the Patriotic Network who worked in Kiev in April 2014, contrasts the real patriotic resistance in Donbass with "the Maidan show".
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Janus Putkonen, Finnish geopolitical analyst and investigative journalist with the Patriotic Network who worked in Kiev in April 2014, contrasts the real patriotic resistance in Donbass with "the Maidan show".
"We waited and we fought and we were patient so that finally Russia will come to help us. Like seriously help us," he said.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
👍27❤10
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🇮🇷 Iran unveils homegrown anti-ballistic missile defense system
The new arrivals include Arman (Aspiration) anti-ballistic missile defense system, also known as Tactical Sayyad (Hunter), as well as Azarakhsh (Thunderbolt)
low-altitude defense system.
The Arman system can reportedly detect and track 24 targets at a distance of 180 kilometers (111 miles) away and simultaneously deal with six to 12 targets within a range of 120 kilometers (74.5 miles). The Azarakhsh is responsible for providing close-in, low altitude, and surface-to-air weapons fire in defense of forward combat areas.
The new systems were showcased during a ceremony in the capital Tehran on Saturday, which was attended by Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
The new arrivals include Arman (Aspiration) anti-ballistic missile defense system, also known as Tactical Sayyad (Hunter), as well as Azarakhsh (Thunderbolt)
low-altitude defense system.
The Arman system can reportedly detect and track 24 targets at a distance of 180 kilometers (111 miles) away and simultaneously deal with six to 12 targets within a range of 120 kilometers (74.5 miles). The Azarakhsh is responsible for providing close-in, low altitude, and surface-to-air weapons fire in defense of forward combat areas.
The new systems were showcased during a ceremony in the capital Tehran on Saturday, which was attended by Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
👍50❤16
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🇦🇺🇷🇺 Australians rally in Sydney in solidarity with Russia and President Vladimir Putin.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
❤93👍29💩2😁1
Why Kiev’s ambitions to buy a fifth-gen fighter jet which doesn’t exist won’t get off the ground
Ukraine’s ambassador to Turkiye announced this week that Kiev is interested in ‘buying and using’ Turkiye’s prospective fifth-generation Kaan stealth multirole fighter and collaborating in its development.
🔺The Turkish fighter program isn’t expected to start production until 2029 at the earliest, with Turkiye likely to seek to arm its own Air Force before exporting the plane abroad.
🔺That’s not mentioning financing, and the potential diplomatic ramifications of selling such and advanced piece of military hardware to Ukraine amid Ankara’s desire to balance its relations with both Kiev and Moscow.
🔺For now, the Kaan “has only taxied along the runway and been shown off externally,” Major Andrei Krasnoperov, a Russian Aerospace Forces veteran and military expert, told Sputnik, pointing to the amount of time and resources necessary to put a true fifth-generation fighter aircraft into service.
🔺Retired Russian Army Colonel and military analyst Viktor Litovkin agreed, emphasizing that building a plane is a long and “very serious process.” “When someone announces that they will do something by a certain date, this is not always justified. It’s just that journalists and the public want this all to happen as quickly as possible. But in reality, the laws of physics do not adjust to social expectations,” Litovkin stressed, pointing out that even a major military aerospace power like Russia has needed years to get its new Sukhoi Su-57 into production.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Ukraine’s ambassador to Turkiye announced this week that Kiev is interested in ‘buying and using’ Turkiye’s prospective fifth-generation Kaan stealth multirole fighter and collaborating in its development.
🔺The Turkish fighter program isn’t expected to start production until 2029 at the earliest, with Turkiye likely to seek to arm its own Air Force before exporting the plane abroad.
🔺That’s not mentioning financing, and the potential diplomatic ramifications of selling such and advanced piece of military hardware to Ukraine amid Ankara’s desire to balance its relations with both Kiev and Moscow.
🔺For now, the Kaan “has only taxied along the runway and been shown off externally,” Major Andrei Krasnoperov, a Russian Aerospace Forces veteran and military expert, told Sputnik, pointing to the amount of time and resources necessary to put a true fifth-generation fighter aircraft into service.
🔺Retired Russian Army Colonel and military analyst Viktor Litovkin agreed, emphasizing that building a plane is a long and “very serious process.” “When someone announces that they will do something by a certain date, this is not always justified. It’s just that journalists and the public want this all to happen as quickly as possible. But in reality, the laws of physics do not adjust to social expectations,” Litovkin stressed, pointing out that even a major military aerospace power like Russia has needed years to get its new Sukhoi Su-57 into production.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
😁33👍7💩1🫡1
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Zelensky refused to answer questions about what he would say to Republicans blocking the bill on aid to Ukraine upon learning that the interview was being televised.
What do you think he wanted to say?
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
What do you think he wanted to say?
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
😁32💩8👍7🥴4❤1👎1
The action was organized under the slogan "Against the NATO Military Conference - Negotiations instead of shootings, disarmament instead of arming, against militarism, nationalism, and racism." Protesters' signs also featured slogans such as "Ceasefire Now" and "Negotiate, Don't Shoot."
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
👍46❤6👌3
🇩🇪 The German defense company Rheinmetall plans to open a new plant for the production of ammunition in Ukraine. The corresponding memorandum was signed on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
😁46💩16🥴2👎1🔥1
At the Munich Security Conference, there is a gloomy atmosphere, with most attendees skeptically assessing Ukraine's chances of defeating Russia, reports Politico.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Only the most steadfast supporters of Ukraine are willing to say that it can defeat Russia. But most attendees are not willing to say so, and behind closed doors, they are skeptical about Ukraine's complete victory over Russia in the near future - if ever.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
👍22😁4🤔2
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Arena-M: Russia’s unique Javelin-stopping active protection system
Development work on Arena-M, a modernized version of the Arena active protection system (APS) is proceeding apace, with the chief designer of the Mashinostroyeniya Construction Bureau informing Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu this week that the system has been submitted for qualification tests. Here’s what we know about the new defensive platform:
🔺The Arena is a hard-kill APS, featuring projectiles fired at enemy anti-tank missiles to prevent them from reaching and damaging or destroying the tank on which the system is equipped.
🔺The base system comes with a powerful, multifunctional, jamming-resistant Doppler radar to detect enemy projectiles. The radar is connected to an onboard targeting and tracking computer, which automatically fires anti-ATGM rounds at projectiles flying at pre-designated speeds and trajectories. Response time is just 70 milliseconds.
🔺The Arena-M is expected to feature a maneuverable defensive sub-munition, allowing the system to cover a wider area with fewer fires.
🔺The upgraded model is expected to feature 360 degree protection, including of the upper hemisphere, creating a dome of cover around the tank that even advanced NATO ATGMs like the TOW and Javelin cannot penetrate.
🔺Reports suggest the Arena-M will feature an altered configuration aboard the tanks, including additional radar antennas and housing divided into multiply blocks, which should simplify retrofitting and repairs.
🔺Russia today is a global pioneer of active protection systems, with the Arena’s predecessor, the Drozd (lit. ‘Thrush’) first entering into service in the early 1980s, and complemented by the Shtora-1 (lit. ‘Curtain-1’) soft-kill APS later in the decade.
Development work on Arena-M, a modernized version of the Arena active protection system (APS) is proceeding apace, with the chief designer of the Mashinostroyeniya Construction Bureau informing Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu this week that the system has been submitted for qualification tests. Here’s what we know about the new defensive platform:
🔺The Arena is a hard-kill APS, featuring projectiles fired at enemy anti-tank missiles to prevent them from reaching and damaging or destroying the tank on which the system is equipped.
🔺The base system comes with a powerful, multifunctional, jamming-resistant Doppler radar to detect enemy projectiles. The radar is connected to an onboard targeting and tracking computer, which automatically fires anti-ATGM rounds at projectiles flying at pre-designated speeds and trajectories. Response time is just 70 milliseconds.
🔺The Arena-M is expected to feature a maneuverable defensive sub-munition, allowing the system to cover a wider area with fewer fires.
🔺The upgraded model is expected to feature 360 degree protection, including of the upper hemisphere, creating a dome of cover around the tank that even advanced NATO ATGMs like the TOW and Javelin cannot penetrate.
🔺Reports suggest the Arena-M will feature an altered configuration aboard the tanks, including additional radar antennas and housing divided into multiply blocks, which should simplify retrofitting and repairs.
🔺Russia today is a global pioneer of active protection systems, with the Arena’s predecessor, the Drozd (lit. ‘Thrush’) first entering into service in the early 1980s, and complemented by the Shtora-1 (lit. ‘Curtain-1’) soft-kill APS later in the decade.
👍44❤13🔥4🫡3
🇫🇷 A memorial event for the children of Donbass is taking place in Paris, in front of the Russian Cultural Center. Participants have brought posters with portraits of children who died from Ukrainian bombings.
Slogans: "Stop the suffering of Donbass, cease weapon supplies to Ukraine."
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Slogans: "Stop the suffering of Donbass, cease weapon supplies to Ukraine."
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
❤72👍20