⚡️Do the U.S. really need another zone of tension?⚡️
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi plans to visit Taiwan in August
🔥Things are heating up. Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, told a Tuesday press briefing that such a visit would “have a severe negative impact on the political foundation of China-U.S. relations, and send a gravely wrong signal to ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces”
🤔If Pelosi’s visit does take place in August, she will be the second House speaker to visit Taiwan in 25 years. But China is no longer what it was when then House speaker Newt Gingrich visited the island in 1997. Wrapping up his visit to Taiwan that year, when the Bill Clinton administration carefully tiptoed the line on the most sensitive part of bilateral relations. But this time, the U.S. should brace for Beijing's "resolute and forceful measures" as Mr. Lijian said
💁♂️Washington should know that by repeatedly playing the Taiwan card, its credit on the Chinese side is being bankrupted by its own hypocrisy. Saying one thing and doing another has become a habit of Biden’s administration, which is shaking the foundation for the "guardrails" it says it wants to build for relations
👉Releasing the information on Pelosi's planned trip to Taiwan, even if it falls through again for whatever reason, is enough to let the region and beyond see that the only commitment of the U.S. is to safeguard its hegemony
#USA #China #FindTruth
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Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi plans to visit Taiwan in August
🔥Things are heating up. Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, told a Tuesday press briefing that such a visit would “have a severe negative impact on the political foundation of China-U.S. relations, and send a gravely wrong signal to ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces”
🤔If Pelosi’s visit does take place in August, she will be the second House speaker to visit Taiwan in 25 years. But China is no longer what it was when then House speaker Newt Gingrich visited the island in 1997. Wrapping up his visit to Taiwan that year, when the Bill Clinton administration carefully tiptoed the line on the most sensitive part of bilateral relations. But this time, the U.S. should brace for Beijing's "resolute and forceful measures" as Mr. Lijian said
💁♂️Washington should know that by repeatedly playing the Taiwan card, its credit on the Chinese side is being bankrupted by its own hypocrisy. Saying one thing and doing another has become a habit of Biden’s administration, which is shaking the foundation for the "guardrails" it says it wants to build for relations
👉Releasing the information on Pelosi's planned trip to Taiwan, even if it falls through again for whatever reason, is enough to let the region and beyond see that the only commitment of the U.S. is to safeguard its hegemony
#USA #China #FindTruth
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Nancy Pelosi to visit Taiwan next month amid China tensions
Trip will be first in 25 years by a Speaker of the US House of Representatives
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⚡️Integration along the North-South axis⚡️
🌐The world economy is going through a period of active formation of transcontinental integration platforms, which are becoming the main source of opening global markets
💁♂️Despite the positive effects of the formation of such platforms for the world economy, it causes the competition and polarization of the blocks along the North – South axis. In 2022, it has been increasingly deep between the BRICS and the G7 – the leading blocs of the global South and North. In these circumstances, it is extremely important to create mechanisms for establishing interaction and cooperation between the platforms of developed and developing countries
👉Today, the integration platforms of the North and the South can cooperate. But new mechanisms of cooperation are needed within the framework of global forums, such as the G20, including through cooperation between regional integration blocs of the North and the South. It is necessary to transform the largest regional blocs towards greater openness for "integration of integrations" and the possibility of cooperation with other regional blocs
🤔The countries of the Global South should move actively towards creating common platforms for economic cooperation – in the last few years, conditions for creating such megaplatforms for developing countries have significantly improved
📊The formation of a common integration project of the developing world, in turn, will create more favorable conditions for constructive interaction and integration of platforms of developed and developing countries. So far, the integration platforms of the Global South are far from the degree of connectivity and structuring that characterizes the integration projects of developed countries
🌍The African Union, as well as India, can play a key role in these processes (due to more active involvement in the process of forming the BRICS+ and BRICS++ agenda)
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🌐The world economy is going through a period of active formation of transcontinental integration platforms, which are becoming the main source of opening global markets
💁♂️Despite the positive effects of the formation of such platforms for the world economy, it causes the competition and polarization of the blocks along the North – South axis. In 2022, it has been increasingly deep between the BRICS and the G7 – the leading blocs of the global South and North. In these circumstances, it is extremely important to create mechanisms for establishing interaction and cooperation between the platforms of developed and developing countries
👉Today, the integration platforms of the North and the South can cooperate. But new mechanisms of cooperation are needed within the framework of global forums, such as the G20, including through cooperation between regional integration blocs of the North and the South. It is necessary to transform the largest regional blocs towards greater openness for "integration of integrations" and the possibility of cooperation with other regional blocs
🤔The countries of the Global South should move actively towards creating common platforms for economic cooperation – in the last few years, conditions for creating such megaplatforms for developing countries have significantly improved
📊The formation of a common integration project of the developing world, in turn, will create more favorable conditions for constructive interaction and integration of platforms of developed and developing countries. So far, the integration platforms of the Global South are far from the degree of connectivity and structuring that characterizes the integration projects of developed countries
🌍The African Union, as well as India, can play a key role in these processes (due to more active involvement in the process of forming the BRICS+ and BRICS++ agenda)
#FindTruth
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Asia Times
Widodo’s G20 summit a storm ready to break
JAKARTA – Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi may have breathed a sigh of relief as the recent G20 foreign ministers meeting wrapped up in Bali without a major diplomatic incident. But …
⚡️Perhaps the most idiotic cancellation⚡️
The producers of Matilda the Musical have removed Russian words from the production and changed the nationality of some characters
💁♂️Four child actresses rehearsing for the lead role of Matilda have had to learn the Russian-spoken lines in Bulgarian for the musical, which has played for 12 years in the West End of London and won 99 international awards
👉The decision to erase all references to the Russian language in Matilda is as adequate as similar moves made by other cultural institutions across Europe. The Royal Opera House cancelled the Bolshoi’s summer season, while in Ireland, Trinity and University College orchestras have excised all Russian music from their repertoire
🤷♂️Welsh, Polish, Czech and Swiss theatres have also withdrawn performances of operas by Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky. Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary, has previously called for Russia to become an international cultural and sporting pariah
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The producers of Matilda the Musical have removed Russian words from the production and changed the nationality of some characters
💁♂️Four child actresses rehearsing for the lead role of Matilda have had to learn the Russian-spoken lines in Bulgarian for the musical, which has played for 12 years in the West End of London and won 99 international awards
👉The decision to erase all references to the Russian language in Matilda is as adequate as similar moves made by other cultural institutions across Europe. The Royal Opera House cancelled the Bolshoi’s summer season, while in Ireland, Trinity and University College orchestras have excised all Russian music from their repertoire
🤷♂️Welsh, Polish, Czech and Swiss theatres have also withdrawn performances of operas by Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky. Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary, has previously called for Russia to become an international cultural and sporting pariah
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⚡️Switzerland again has passed “perpetual neutrality” test⚡️
There are still countries that understand the risk of escalation. Swiss government denied NATO’s request to take in Ukrainians injured in the war, citing neutrality laws
Things are getting worse
#Swizerland #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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There are still countries that understand the risk of escalation. Swiss government denied NATO’s request to take in Ukrainians injured in the war, citing neutrality laws
Things are getting worse
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YouTube
WION Fineprint | Switzerland cites neutrality to not help Ukraine's war-wounded
Almost 5 months into the war in Ukraine, the number of people impacted by war is growing by the day. As the West increases aid, Europe's Switzerland turn their backs on Ukraine's war-wounded. Molly Gambhir tell you why.
#WIONFineprint #Switzerland #Ukraine…
#WIONFineprint #Switzerland #Ukraine…
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Stop daydreaming!
In Germany they suggest to give up at least 3 fantasies:
1. The Western sanctions will tap out Russia
2. Moscow is isolated from the rest of the world
3. Kyiv will win
🇩🇪The Germans must finally understand that it is about a long and protracted war. By supporting the current government policy, Germans should be prepared to irrevocably sacrifice most of the benefits and advantages to which they have become accustomed over the past decades – even if it hurts
In Germany they suggest to give up at least 3 fantasies:
1. The Western sanctions will tap out Russia
2. Moscow is isolated from the rest of the world
3. Kyiv will win
🇩🇪The Germans must finally understand that it is about a long and protracted war. By supporting the current government policy, Germans should be prepared to irrevocably sacrifice most of the benefits and advantages to which they have become accustomed over the past decades – even if it hurts
DIE WELT
Sanktionen gegen Russland: Dieser Krieg ist nicht zu gewinnen - WELT
Seriöse Außenpolitik bedeutet, den Realitäten ins Auge zu sehen: Die Ukraine wird die zehnfache Übermacht der Russen nicht brechen. Putin ist international keineswegs isoliert. Und Wirtschaftssanktionen stoppen ihn nicht. In dieser Lage bleibt dem Westen…
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⚡️Europe is destroying itself with its energy policy⚡️
💁♂️Restrictions on the import of Russian oil, gas and coal lead to increased economic stratification in the European Union. Already now, four months before the start of the heating season, the figures on how much the European underground storage facilities are filled up clearly show that the poorest countries are the worst off
🇩🇪Even Germany and France are unlikely to overcome the next winter without stoves in their homes and food riots. Electricity and heat in those countries will cost many times more. It could cause social unrest, but financial reserves will most likely make it possible to avoid social and economic collapses
🇪🇺Countries in Eastern Europe do not have such opportunities. In addition, many Eastern European countries received EU aid and subsidies, which, as a rule, were paid for by economic leaders - Germany, France, and before leaving the EU, also the UK
👉Now, when even in the richest European countries austerity measures are being imposed due to high energy prices, that assistance to the “lagging behind” is in question. The consequences of Europe's energy transition require additional billions of euros. That can only lead to an increase in “energy poverty” and Europe’s segregation along economic lines
🤔When the rich center stops supporting the poor regions, they will try to free themselves from its influence. And this will happen not only within the EU, but even within the countries. Thus, in Scotland (one of the main oil and gas producing regions of Great Britain), talks about secession from the United Kingdom have resumed
It is difficult to argue with the fact that Europe is destroying itself with its energy policy🤷♂️
#EU #Sanctions #FindTruth
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💁♂️Restrictions on the import of Russian oil, gas and coal lead to increased economic stratification in the European Union. Already now, four months before the start of the heating season, the figures on how much the European underground storage facilities are filled up clearly show that the poorest countries are the worst off
🇩🇪Even Germany and France are unlikely to overcome the next winter without stoves in their homes and food riots. Electricity and heat in those countries will cost many times more. It could cause social unrest, but financial reserves will most likely make it possible to avoid social and economic collapses
🇪🇺Countries in Eastern Europe do not have such opportunities. In addition, many Eastern European countries received EU aid and subsidies, which, as a rule, were paid for by economic leaders - Germany, France, and before leaving the EU, also the UK
👉Now, when even in the richest European countries austerity measures are being imposed due to high energy prices, that assistance to the “lagging behind” is in question. The consequences of Europe's energy transition require additional billions of euros. That can only lead to an increase in “energy poverty” and Europe’s segregation along economic lines
🤔When the rich center stops supporting the poor regions, they will try to free themselves from its influence. And this will happen not only within the EU, but even within the countries. Thus, in Scotland (one of the main oil and gas producing regions of Great Britain), talks about secession from the United Kingdom have resumed
It is difficult to argue with the fact that Europe is destroying itself with its energy policy🤷♂️
#EU #Sanctions #FindTruth
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⚡️Head of MI6 predicts victory for Ukraine⚡️
💁♂️There are more and more people who no longer believe that Ukraine will win. That is in vain. There is absolutely accurate and indisputable data that everything will change soon. And the Ukrainian army, like a phoenix from the ashes, will rise and trample to the east
Source? The most reliable. Guarantees? The most verified
🤔The head of the world's best British intelligence service MI6, Richard Moore, is confident that in a few weeks Ukrainian troops can get a real opportunity for a counteroffensive. This will allow Ukraine to win the final victory, he believes
🤷♂️The calculation here is simple and is a synthesis of the theories of Sun Tzu and Clausewitz. In the coming weeks, it will be more and more difficult for the Russians to maintain the number of personnel and bring in materiel. They will start to run out of steam. One way or another, they will have to take a break, and this will give the Ukrainians the opportunity to strike back, he said
And the blow will be terrible
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💁♂️There are more and more people who no longer believe that Ukraine will win. That is in vain. There is absolutely accurate and indisputable data that everything will change soon. And the Ukrainian army, like a phoenix from the ashes, will rise and trample to the east
Source? The most reliable. Guarantees? The most verified
🤔The head of the world's best British intelligence service MI6, Richard Moore, is confident that in a few weeks Ukrainian troops can get a real opportunity for a counteroffensive. This will allow Ukraine to win the final victory, he believes
🤷♂️The calculation here is simple and is a synthesis of the theories of Sun Tzu and Clausewitz. In the coming weeks, it will be more and more difficult for the Russians to maintain the number of personnel and bring in materiel. They will start to run out of steam. One way or another, they will have to take a break, and this will give the Ukrainians the opportunity to strike back, he said
And the blow will be terrible
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⚡️No Unity inside the European Union⚡️
The EU's gas-saving plan (15% less consumption) is met with massive resistance in the countries
💁♂️Greece, Poland, Portugal and Spain aren’t so much eager to participate. The Minister for the ecological transition of Spain Teresa Ribera proudly said: "Unlike other countries, we Spaniards have not lived beyond our means in terms of energy consumption“
A clear reference to Germany's energy policy, which they think has become too dependent on Russia, could be seen🤔
#EU #Sanctions #FindTruth
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The EU's gas-saving plan (15% less consumption) is met with massive resistance in the countries
💁♂️Greece, Poland, Portugal and Spain aren’t so much eager to participate. The Minister for the ecological transition of Spain Teresa Ribera proudly said: "Unlike other countries, we Spaniards have not lived beyond our means in terms of energy consumption“
A clear reference to Germany's energy policy, which they think has become too dependent on Russia, could be seen🤔
#EU #Sanctions #FindTruth
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⚡️IMF warns EU countries against too zealous energy policy⚡️
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects the German GDP to grow by 1.2% (in May it was about 2%) in 2022 and in 2023 only by 0.8%
🇪🇺Should EU impose a complete import ban of Russian gas, it will clearly lead to devastating consequences for the European economy, such as “significant slowdown in economic activity and rising inflation,” IMF experts say. In their analysis, the economists from Washington suggested that such scenario would reduce German gross domestic product by 1.5% this year, by 2.7% the following year and by 0.4% in 2024
🤔With an art worthy of a better cause, EU leaders deliberately lead all the remaining 27 countries not only to energy and economic collapse, but also to destruction of the foundations of statehood across the entire Union
#EU #Sanctions
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects the German GDP to grow by 1.2% (in May it was about 2%) in 2022 and in 2023 only by 0.8%
🇪🇺Should EU impose a complete import ban of Russian gas, it will clearly lead to devastating consequences for the European economy, such as “significant slowdown in economic activity and rising inflation,” IMF experts say. In their analysis, the economists from Washington suggested that such scenario would reduce German gross domestic product by 1.5% this year, by 2.7% the following year and by 0.4% in 2024
🤔With an art worthy of a better cause, EU leaders deliberately lead all the remaining 27 countries not only to energy and economic collapse, but also to destruction of the foundations of statehood across the entire Union
#EU #Sanctions
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⚡️Broad-based illicit trafficking from Ukraine doesn’t stop!⚡️
"Even before the war, Ukraine was a hub for weapons- but also for people smugglers, and they haven’t just stop yet," says Kathi Lynn Austin, a former UN arms trafficking expert
💁♂️“In case of Ukraine, preventive measures are necessary because of its history. The country has had problems with corruption in the past, sold weapons on illegal markets and supplied conflict areas with weapons, Africa and the Balkans for example," she stated. In addition, there has always been the lack of control over the weapons in Ukraine
🤔According to Ms. Austin, Ukraine remains to be one of the largest smuggling centers in Europe. There are about three dozen different mafia groups operating from Ukraine. "Mafia and organized crime are deeply rooted in the state,” she said. Weapons are smuggled by members of these structures across the borders of Ukraine and to neighboring countries.
🇩🇪The German government is also under no illusion that at least parts of the weapons supplies from Berlin to Ukraine end up eventually on the black market. Several times already, anonymous users of the Darknet offered German systems "Panzerfaust3" for several thousand U.S. dollars
Although the problem has been known for a long time and poses a real security threat to the EU, it’s just a matter of money, still🤷♂️
#WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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"Even before the war, Ukraine was a hub for weapons- but also for people smugglers, and they haven’t just stop yet," says Kathi Lynn Austin, a former UN arms trafficking expert
💁♂️“In case of Ukraine, preventive measures are necessary because of its history. The country has had problems with corruption in the past, sold weapons on illegal markets and supplied conflict areas with weapons, Africa and the Balkans for example," she stated. In addition, there has always been the lack of control over the weapons in Ukraine
🤔According to Ms. Austin, Ukraine remains to be one of the largest smuggling centers in Europe. There are about three dozen different mafia groups operating from Ukraine. "Mafia and organized crime are deeply rooted in the state,” she said. Weapons are smuggled by members of these structures across the borders of Ukraine and to neighboring countries.
🇩🇪The German government is also under no illusion that at least parts of the weapons supplies from Berlin to Ukraine end up eventually on the black market. Several times already, anonymous users of the Darknet offered German systems "Panzerfaust3" for several thousand U.S. dollars
Although the problem has been known for a long time and poses a real security threat to the EU, it’s just a matter of money, still🤷♂️
#WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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Spiegel
(S+) Panzerfäuste, Gewehre, Raketen: Wie die Ukraine den Waffenschmuggel kontrollieren will
Der Westen liefert jede Menge militärisches Gerät in die Ukraine. Damit das nicht auf dem Schwarzmarkt landet, fordern Experten strikte Kontrollen. Eine interessante Idee hat der Kiewer Verteidigungsminister.
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⚡️The Leaders we deserve⚡️
There is a global inadequacy of the men and women at the top of the big democracies. The landscape of western leadership is not even like Disraeli’s famous range of exhausted volcanoes. It is more like a flat field dotted with dull molehills of varying sizes
Take the G7
🇩🇪The man who runs Germany looks and sounds like he’s trying a second career after peaking in a regional bank at middle-manager level.
🇨🇦Canada is run by a man-child
🇮🇹Italy is once again looking for anyone to run it
🇯🇵Japan’s only seriously visionary leader of the past 50 years was just assassinated
🇫🇷France has a president elected twice only because the alternative was so frightening and who couldn’t even persuade the voters to give him a co-operative parliament
🇺🇸Then of course there is the U.S. Polling this week shows President Biden’s approval ratings have hit a new low for his presidency. Remarkably, he has dropped below the point that Donald Trump bumped along for much of his term. That means we have had, back to back, the two American presidents with the most sustained popular disapproval numbers in history
🤔We are led today instead by the members of a self-serving political class whose greatest hardship was the fear of getting caught with a twist of cocaine in their pocket on their way to a party at Oxford, or pulling a series of all-nighters to pass their bar exams. We probably deserve them 🤷♂️
#FindTruth
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There is a global inadequacy of the men and women at the top of the big democracies. The landscape of western leadership is not even like Disraeli’s famous range of exhausted volcanoes. It is more like a flat field dotted with dull molehills of varying sizes
Take the G7
🇩🇪The man who runs Germany looks and sounds like he’s trying a second career after peaking in a regional bank at middle-manager level.
🇨🇦Canada is run by a man-child
🇮🇹Italy is once again looking for anyone to run it
🇯🇵Japan’s only seriously visionary leader of the past 50 years was just assassinated
🇫🇷France has a president elected twice only because the alternative was so frightening and who couldn’t even persuade the voters to give him a co-operative parliament
🇺🇸Then of course there is the U.S. Polling this week shows President Biden’s approval ratings have hit a new low for his presidency. Remarkably, he has dropped below the point that Donald Trump bumped along for much of his term. That means we have had, back to back, the two American presidents with the most sustained popular disapproval numbers in history
🤔We are led today instead by the members of a self-serving political class whose greatest hardship was the fear of getting caught with a twist of cocaine in their pocket on their way to a party at Oxford, or pulling a series of all-nighters to pass their bar exams. We probably deserve them 🤷♂️
#FindTruth
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www.thetimes.co.uk
West’s leadership crisis is about to get worse
There’s no more predictable trope of political punditry than the loud, extended complaint about the quality of contemporary leadership. To every generation of commentators the current crop of statesmen are always a shadow of those who went before. Supposedly…
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⚡️British military assistance to Ukraine is a waste of taxpayers' money⚡️
🇬🇧British Defense Minister Ben Wallace, speaking in the British Parliament on July 21, 2022, announced the significant supply of weapons and military equipment by the UK to Ukraine
💷The total amount of British military assistance to Ukraine from February 24 will thus reach 2.3 billion pounds
👉According to Wallace, Ukraine should be supplied with:
- "more than 20" M109 self-propelled howitzers of 155 mm caliber;
- 36 L119 light towed guns of 105 mm caliber;
- "more than 1,600 anti-tank weapons";
- anti-battery radar systems;
- "more than 50,000" pieces of ammunition for the current Ukrainian Soviet-style artillery, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, "including hundreds of loitering munitions".
💁♂️Wallace added, that in the future, it was planned to supply Ukraine with "even more advanced air defense systems, unmanned aerial vehicles and innovative new electronic warfare equipment"
🔥According to Wallace's report, the UK has already transferred to Ukraine:
- 6,900 units of NLAW, Javelin, Brimstone and other anti-tank weapons, separately mentioned Brimstone naval missiles;
- MLRS multiple rocket launchers [probably three],
- 16,000 artillery rounds;
- six combat vehicles Stormer of the Starstreak self-propelled anti-aircraft missile system and hundreds of guided missiles (assumed to be anti-aircraft);
- 120 armored fighting vehicles, as well as a large number of non-combat equipment, including more than 82,000 protective helmets, 8,450 body armor kits and more than 5,000 night vision goggles.
🤔Wallace’s report raises questions from experts, since many of the items of military equipment he mentioned simply cannot be at the disposal of the UK. But if this can be a subject of discussion, then it is absolutely indisputable that the supply of weapons to Ukraine does not lead to any changes in its favor in combat operations, and is simply a waste of taxpayers' money 🤷♂️
#UK #FindTruth
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🇬🇧British Defense Minister Ben Wallace, speaking in the British Parliament on July 21, 2022, announced the significant supply of weapons and military equipment by the UK to Ukraine
💷The total amount of British military assistance to Ukraine from February 24 will thus reach 2.3 billion pounds
👉According to Wallace, Ukraine should be supplied with:
- "more than 20" M109 self-propelled howitzers of 155 mm caliber;
- 36 L119 light towed guns of 105 mm caliber;
- "more than 1,600 anti-tank weapons";
- anti-battery radar systems;
- "more than 50,000" pieces of ammunition for the current Ukrainian Soviet-style artillery, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, "including hundreds of loitering munitions".
💁♂️Wallace added, that in the future, it was planned to supply Ukraine with "even more advanced air defense systems, unmanned aerial vehicles and innovative new electronic warfare equipment"
🔥According to Wallace's report, the UK has already transferred to Ukraine:
- 6,900 units of NLAW, Javelin, Brimstone and other anti-tank weapons, separately mentioned Brimstone naval missiles;
- MLRS multiple rocket launchers [probably three],
- 16,000 artillery rounds;
- six combat vehicles Stormer of the Starstreak self-propelled anti-aircraft missile system and hundreds of guided missiles (assumed to be anti-aircraft);
- 120 armored fighting vehicles, as well as a large number of non-combat equipment, including more than 82,000 protective helmets, 8,450 body armor kits and more than 5,000 night vision goggles.
🤔Wallace’s report raises questions from experts, since many of the items of military equipment he mentioned simply cannot be at the disposal of the UK. But if this can be a subject of discussion, then it is absolutely indisputable that the supply of weapons to Ukraine does not lead to any changes in its favor in combat operations, and is simply a waste of taxpayers' money 🤷♂️
#UK #FindTruth
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GOV.UK
UK to send scores of artillery guns and hundreds of drones to Ukraine
Ben Wallace reveals latest British military support for Ukraine, including plans to send 50,000 artillery shells and hundreds more anti-tank weapons in the coming weeks.
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⚡️Popular unrest is closer than ever⚡️
Inflation is expected to rise further to 9% (8.6% now)
👉Confirming the IMF data it is suggested that if there is no change in EU gas policy over the winter, inflation could even double – that would be 18%.
💁♂️"There is a huge potential for social conflict," warned Mr. Felbermayr, a president of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research. It could pose a threat of "war economy with people take to the streets" he said.
That's just the way it is
#EU #Sanctions #FindTruth
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Inflation is expected to rise further to 9% (8.6% now)
👉Confirming the IMF data it is suggested that if there is no change in EU gas policy over the winter, inflation could even double – that would be 18%.
💁♂️"There is a huge potential for social conflict," warned Mr. Felbermayr, a president of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research. It could pose a threat of "war economy with people take to the streets" he said.
That's just the way it is
#EU #Sanctions #FindTruth
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⚡️No limits for Japan under the pretext of rising threats⚡️
🇯🇵Aimed in part at preparing the stage for the Fumio Kishida Cabinet's attempt to dramatically increase Japan's defense budget, the Defense White Paper the Japanese government approved on Friday painted an unusually gloomy picture of the security landscape for the country
💁♂️Tokyo's official definition of China, Russia and Nord Korea as key security concerns, along with its recent close interactions with Washington and NATO in the security field, and its attempts at enhancing targeted regional security alliances, will severely disrupt the security landscape in the Asia-Pacific and only invite greater potential threats to itself
🇺🇸With the U.S. doubling down on its "Indo-Pacific strategy", NATO seeking to extend its reach into the region, and regional countries such as Australia and Japan latching on to Washington's pressure policy to see what can be squeezed their way, the potential security challenges Beijing, Moscow and Pyongyang are confronting have hardly been harsher
👉The Biden administration is bolstering U.S. arms production to sustain the war in Ukraine and to support Taiwan, despite the fact that this only leads to an escalating confrontation. Such unnecessary aggravations only increase the risks of a misstep that can hardly be called desirable or beneficial to anyone
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🇯🇵Aimed in part at preparing the stage for the Fumio Kishida Cabinet's attempt to dramatically increase Japan's defense budget, the Defense White Paper the Japanese government approved on Friday painted an unusually gloomy picture of the security landscape for the country
💁♂️Tokyo's official definition of China, Russia and Nord Korea as key security concerns, along with its recent close interactions with Washington and NATO in the security field, and its attempts at enhancing targeted regional security alliances, will severely disrupt the security landscape in the Asia-Pacific and only invite greater potential threats to itself
🇺🇸With the U.S. doubling down on its "Indo-Pacific strategy", NATO seeking to extend its reach into the region, and regional countries such as Australia and Japan latching on to Washington's pressure policy to see what can be squeezed their way, the potential security challenges Beijing, Moscow and Pyongyang are confronting have hardly been harsher
👉The Biden administration is bolstering U.S. arms production to sustain the war in Ukraine and to support Taiwan, despite the fact that this only leads to an escalating confrontation. Such unnecessary aggravations only increase the risks of a misstep that can hardly be called desirable or beneficial to anyone
#USA #NATO #FindTruth
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Reuters
Japan warns of rising security threats in annual defence report
Japan warned on Friday of escalating national security threats, including repercussions from Russia's war with Ukraine, Chinese intimidation of Taiwan, and vulnerable technology supply chains, in its annual defence white paper.
⚡️Last hope of the Ukrainian military is slipping through Zelensky’s fingers⚡️
🇺🇸The U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s promise to send more M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or Himars, to Ukraine has been faltering
💁♂️Despite pledges by various NATO leaders to phase out Soviet-era weapons in favor of more modern Alliance-grade weapons, many fighters on the southern front lines said they still use predominantly Soviet weapons seized on the battlefield from retreating Russians
🪖The military says, Russian forces effectively have used a combination of reconnaissance and kamikaze drones to spy on Ukrainian positions then hit them, often killing fighters and disabling their tanks
🇺🇦Ukraine’s Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov said that while allies have provided drones to help in the fight, they haven’t offered anti-jamming software to prevent them from becoming disabled
👉This implies a rather bleak outlook for Ukrainian military since, given the serious changes in security-related ministries, such uncertainties only exacerbate the intractability of their situation
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🇺🇸The U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s promise to send more M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or Himars, to Ukraine has been faltering
💁♂️Despite pledges by various NATO leaders to phase out Soviet-era weapons in favor of more modern Alliance-grade weapons, many fighters on the southern front lines said they still use predominantly Soviet weapons seized on the battlefield from retreating Russians
🪖The military says, Russian forces effectively have used a combination of reconnaissance and kamikaze drones to spy on Ukrainian positions then hit them, often killing fighters and disabling their tanks
🇺🇦Ukraine’s Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov said that while allies have provided drones to help in the fight, they haven’t offered anti-jamming software to prevent them from becoming disabled
👉This implies a rather bleak outlook for Ukrainian military since, given the serious changes in security-related ministries, such uncertainties only exacerbate the intractability of their situation
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⚡️With Draghi’s departure, the hope of salvation for the EU is also leaving⚡️
👉The ECB raised rates and refused to offer firm future guidance on rates – a lack of “forward guidance” that is itself guidance warning of tightening to come
🇪🇺The European regulator views Mario Draghi’s resignation as the central bank’s problem because investors are nervous about Rome’s ability to finance its debts. It is the latest example of Italian political instability but may spook markets more than usual because Super Mario was his country’s great economic hope
🇮🇹Draghi understands the fiscal and policy changes needed to restore Italy’s economic health and has tried to implement some of them. His exit may augur another era of fiscal profligacy and aversion to reform
💁♂️The outgoing Italian Premier’s fate encapsulates Europe’s challenges, which have little to do with monetary policy. His keen understanding of Italy’s economic problems isn’t reflected more broadly across its parties, politicians or voters. Until they admit the problem, it will be hard for anyone even of Mr. Draghi’s formidable abilities to rescue the country
🤔His departure also means the loss a strong voice for Ukraine. If other leaders such as France’s Emmanuel Macron or Germany’s Olaf Scholz can’t recognize where Europe’s strategic interests lie, there won’t be much that a mere central bank can do to save the bloc
#EU #Italy #FindTruth
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👉The ECB raised rates and refused to offer firm future guidance on rates – a lack of “forward guidance” that is itself guidance warning of tightening to come
🇪🇺The European regulator views Mario Draghi’s resignation as the central bank’s problem because investors are nervous about Rome’s ability to finance its debts. It is the latest example of Italian political instability but may spook markets more than usual because Super Mario was his country’s great economic hope
🇮🇹Draghi understands the fiscal and policy changes needed to restore Italy’s economic health and has tried to implement some of them. His exit may augur another era of fiscal profligacy and aversion to reform
💁♂️The outgoing Italian Premier’s fate encapsulates Europe’s challenges, which have little to do with monetary policy. His keen understanding of Italy’s economic problems isn’t reflected more broadly across its parties, politicians or voters. Until they admit the problem, it will be hard for anyone even of Mr. Draghi’s formidable abilities to rescue the country
🤔His departure also means the loss a strong voice for Ukraine. If other leaders such as France’s Emmanuel Macron or Germany’s Olaf Scholz can’t recognize where Europe’s strategic interests lie, there won’t be much that a mere central bank can do to save the bloc
#EU #Italy #FindTruth
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WSJ
Opinion | The ECB Raises While Mario Draghi Falls
Italy loses a reformer and a strong EU voice for Ukraine.
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‼️Mistaken priorities of Western leaders put us one step closer to disaster‼️
💁♂️The Western politicians’ singular focus on climate change ignores that people are much more worried about rampant inflation, especially rising food and energy prices. And climate policies are making those problems worse, says Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus and visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution
🔋Things wouldn’t be nearly as bad if the West hadn’t thrown up green roadblocks to its own energy security, such as President Biden’s moratorium on gas leases or Europe’s refusal to dig into its substantial shale gas reserves. Climate policies also increase energy prices by subsidizing renewables like solar and wind. That makes it even harder to adapt to the extreme temperatures climate activists bemoan
📈The cost of green policies will become even harder to bear if politicians make good on their promises to hit net-zero emissions. Achieving this globally by 2050 would cost more than $5 trillion a year for the next three decades, according to McKinsey
👉Policy makers need to recognize that they simply can’t eliminate fossil fuels with current technologies, as Mr. Lomborg states. The world gets almost 80% of its energy from fossil fuels, and even if all current climate policies were fully implemented, by midcentury fossil fuels would still provide more than half of all energy used worldwide, according to the International Energy Agency
🤔It’s starting to dawn on some elites that their policies are creating political dangers. When people are cold, hungry and broke, they rebel
🔥If the elites continue pushing incredibly expensive policies that are disconnected from the urgent challenges facing most people, we need to brace for chaos, Mr. Lomborg concludes
#Sanctions #FindTruth
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💁♂️The Western politicians’ singular focus on climate change ignores that people are much more worried about rampant inflation, especially rising food and energy prices. And climate policies are making those problems worse, says Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus and visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution
🔋Things wouldn’t be nearly as bad if the West hadn’t thrown up green roadblocks to its own energy security, such as President Biden’s moratorium on gas leases or Europe’s refusal to dig into its substantial shale gas reserves. Climate policies also increase energy prices by subsidizing renewables like solar and wind. That makes it even harder to adapt to the extreme temperatures climate activists bemoan
📈The cost of green policies will become even harder to bear if politicians make good on their promises to hit net-zero emissions. Achieving this globally by 2050 would cost more than $5 trillion a year for the next three decades, according to McKinsey
👉Policy makers need to recognize that they simply can’t eliminate fossil fuels with current technologies, as Mr. Lomborg states. The world gets almost 80% of its energy from fossil fuels, and even if all current climate policies were fully implemented, by midcentury fossil fuels would still provide more than half of all energy used worldwide, according to the International Energy Agency
🤔It’s starting to dawn on some elites that their policies are creating political dangers. When people are cold, hungry and broke, they rebel
🔥If the elites continue pushing incredibly expensive policies that are disconnected from the urgent challenges facing most people, we need to brace for chaos, Mr. Lomborg concludes
#Sanctions #FindTruth
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WSJ
WSJ Opinion: How the Climate Elite Spread Misery
Paul Gigot Interviews Bjorn Lomborg
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⚡️British candidates want crackdowns on migration⚡️
💁♂️Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have clashed over migration after trying to outdo each other with hardline measures in a attempt to appeal to Tory members
👉Sunak proposed to stop housing migrants in hotels, which is costing £5 million a day, and to put them on disused cruise ships
👉Truss said she wanted to expand the policy of sending migrants who come to Britain illegally to Rwanda by reaching agreements elsewhere
🤔Persuading other nations is not straightforward anyways. The £120 million deal with Rwanda took more than a year to negotiate. More than 15,000 migrants have crossed the Channel this year, double the number arriving by this time last year
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💁♂️Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have clashed over migration after trying to outdo each other with hardline measures in a attempt to appeal to Tory members
👉Sunak proposed to stop housing migrants in hotels, which is costing £5 million a day, and to put them on disused cruise ships
👉Truss said she wanted to expand the policy of sending migrants who come to Britain illegally to Rwanda by reaching agreements elsewhere
🤔Persuading other nations is not straightforward anyways. The £120 million deal with Rwanda took more than a year to negotiate. More than 15,000 migrants have crossed the Channel this year, double the number arriving by this time last year
#UK #FindTruth
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⚡️Trial for neo-Nazi has been delayed⚡️
🇺🇸A Fairfax County Circuit Court judge on Friday denied efforts to keep documents sealed in the case of a man with alleged neo-Nazi sympathies who is accused of killing his girlfriend’s parents
💁♂️Judge Brett Kassabian said in court that his order won’t take effect for 10 days to give the defense and prosecution time to appeal. He was expected to issue a written ruling later
👉The documents’ pending release is expected to reveal more details from the yearslong prosecution of Nicholas Giampa, which has been shrouded in secrecy since the December 2017 shootings. He was 17 when authorities charged him in the killings of Scott Fricker, 48, and Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, 43, in their Herndon home
The trial has now been delayed for years for multiple reasons. The most recent appeal is likely to delay it for at least another year 🤷♂️
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🇺🇸A Fairfax County Circuit Court judge on Friday denied efforts to keep documents sealed in the case of a man with alleged neo-Nazi sympathies who is accused of killing his girlfriend’s parents
💁♂️Judge Brett Kassabian said in court that his order won’t take effect for 10 days to give the defense and prosecution time to appeal. He was expected to issue a written ruling later
👉The documents’ pending release is expected to reveal more details from the yearslong prosecution of Nicholas Giampa, which has been shrouded in secrecy since the December 2017 shootings. He was 17 when authorities charged him in the killings of Scott Fricker, 48, and Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, 43, in their Herndon home
The trial has now been delayed for years for multiple reasons. The most recent appeal is likely to delay it for at least another year 🤷♂️
#USA #FindTruth
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AP NEWS
Judge denies move to seal papers in alleged neo-Nazi's trial
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A judge in Virginia on Friday denied efforts to keep documents sealed in the case of a man with alleged neo-Nazi sympathies who is accused of killing his girlfriend’s parents. The ruling follows motions by The Washington Post and The Associated…
‼️Investigation of Biden's criminal energy policy is gaining momentum‼️
🇺🇸Congressional Republicans launched a formal investigation into the Biden administration on Friday following its decision to sell a Chinese state-controlled company nearly one million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, according to a copy of the probe obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon
🔥Information included in the Republican probe shows that the White House sold China 2.5 million barrels in October and another 1.5 million in November. Millions more were sold to other foreign countries during this time period. Amid these sales, the U.S. reserves dipped below 500 million barrels – the lowest level since 1986
💁♂️Rep. Pat Fallon (R., Texas) says, "Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created to address national or weather emergencies, not for political expediency and personal profit"
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🇺🇸Congressional Republicans launched a formal investigation into the Biden administration on Friday following its decision to sell a Chinese state-controlled company nearly one million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, according to a copy of the probe obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon
🔥Information included in the Republican probe shows that the White House sold China 2.5 million barrels in October and another 1.5 million in November. Millions more were sold to other foreign countries during this time period. Amid these sales, the U.S. reserves dipped below 500 million barrels – the lowest level since 1986
💁♂️Rep. Pat Fallon (R., Texas) says, "Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created to address national or weather emergencies, not for political expediency and personal profit"
#USA #FindTruth
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⚡️Love triangle may cost Musk everything⚡️
🔥Elon Musk is alleged to have engaged in a fleeting liaison with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of the Google co-founder Sergey Brin, last December
💁♂️Musk and Brin have been close friends and corporate allies for years. Brin supplied Tesla with hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding when the electric carmaker was under pressure in 2008 and was said to have been one of the first customers to take delivery of its Model X SUV in 2015. However, their friendship has since suffered
👉Scrutiny of Tesla boss’ private life intensified in May after he said he would buy Twitter for $44 billion, prompting him to write on the social network that “political attacks on me will escalate dramatically in coming months”
🤔Possible expenses from the abandoning his purchase of Twitter may seem to Musk now trivial compared to the reputational damage from this scandal
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🔥Elon Musk is alleged to have engaged in a fleeting liaison with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of the Google co-founder Sergey Brin, last December
💁♂️Musk and Brin have been close friends and corporate allies for years. Brin supplied Tesla with hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding when the electric carmaker was under pressure in 2008 and was said to have been one of the first customers to take delivery of its Model X SUV in 2015. However, their friendship has since suffered
👉Scrutiny of Tesla boss’ private life intensified in May after he said he would buy Twitter for $44 billion, prompting him to write on the social network that “political attacks on me will escalate dramatically in coming months”
🤔Possible expenses from the abandoning his purchase of Twitter may seem to Musk now trivial compared to the reputational damage from this scandal
#Musk #FindTruth
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