“[Israel is] dying from a thousand cuts, and that is actually the strategy by the Iranians and Hezbollah is to drag it out because Israel is not accustomed to long-term battles like this. And they see the economy as going h*** in a handbasket. And you've got very disgruntled Israelis internally and you've got feuding going on within the government. At some point, things are just going to collapse as long as they can prolong this thing,” Michael Maloof, a former senior security policy analyst with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, told Sputnik’s The Final Countdown.

“I think what's going to happen here is that Hezbollah is going to ratchet up on a daily basis now. Their missiles are deep, deep in silos, like 90 feet,” Maloof explained. “And the fact is that they have not implemented them yet. Plus, Hezbollah has a history of deception. They are good at, and they've seen this from their experiences in the 2006 war.”

“She's a social democrat – therefore left-wing by American standards – but she is fiercely anti-Russian,” Lazare said of Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program. “She has backed the US military effort every step of the way. And she is now calling for Ukraine to be supplied with medium-range missiles with which to strike deep into Russia.”

“She's also taking a strong stance against immigration,” the journalist noted. “Mainly from the Middle East, of course, but what's amazing is that the worse the war gets in Ukraine – and these medium-range missiles will make it a good deal worse – the more refugees it will send fleeing to countries like Denmark.”

“She is shooting herself in the foot,” Lazare said of Frederiksen’s support for the Ukraine proxy war. “She is supporting a war which generates refugees who, when they finally make their way to Denmark, are angering growing numbers of citizens who are afraid of what the influx means and fueling the rise of the ultra-right. This is amazingly foolish on her part, but yet she is doing it. She's like an automaton who's marching off the edge of a cliff.”

“The Chinese want win-win relations,” Noh noted, using a term that is frequently employed in official Chinese public statements. “They want mutually beneficial relations and they believe that this can be done. And it's not simply a policy. It is actually the way the economic system works if you have good mutual equitable relations.”

“I give you something you need, you give me something I need and we both get efficiencies from that. Or I give you something and that helps you develop something, which helps me develop something and we create this kind of knowledge or technical or scientific common. Win-win is how the human species developed. It's how human societies developed and what the US wants to do is it wants to turn it into zero-sum. Win-lose or, rather, you lose, we must win.”

“It is no longer acceptable that only a few countries dominate world economic development, control economic rules, and enjoy development fruits,” read a recent statement. “The BRI targets development… for the world at large.”