Alfred Hitchcock-esque horror in Kiev as Crows are seen in huge numbers.

Leopard 2A5 Panzers head to the scrapyard

#Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Italy Antonio Tajani: “Europe has no true foreign policy nor true defence policy. We are always behind the Americans. Our defence forces also deal with foreign policy. We lag behind and we have been saying this since 1954. <…> The world needs Europe. Even Germany, the strongest country, cannot take a stance. They lack somebody like Merkel. We must do everything to avoid the expansion of this conflict. Neither NATO nor Europe, which has to help Ukraine, are at war with Russia.”

Don’t they see that the United States is dragging Europe into a big war? Why? Because Washington has long lost any other resources to secure the dollar and maintain the growth of the US economy except by creating hotbeds of tension in the world. The green paper with watermarks is secured by one thing, the availability of a printing press and ink.

Europe must urgently wake up from its lethargic sleep and finally remember that it was the United States who benefitted from the two previous world wars started by Western countries. While the rest of the world was in ruins, Washington created Pax Americana on the ashes.

Perhaps it is high time to avoid falling into the same trap for the third time?

Not an article I expected to read 😳 Thought some might be interested.

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ANOTHER Corrupt, tax dodging UK MP to resign? NO! I WON'T BELIEVE IT!! 😱😱😱 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/jan/25/nadhim-zahawi-pmqs-tax-hmrc-rishi-sunak-conservatives-uk-politics-latest

🇺🇦 Mobilization in Ukraine

"Hunting Season is Open"

Correspondents from Russian VGTRK media group, have created a pool of prize money for soldiers. For the first destroyed leopard tank, soldier will be paid 500,000 rubles. For captured he will get 1,000,000 rubles.

Russia may issue gold-backed digital ruble

Russia may issue gold-backed stablecoins for international settlements, said Anatoly Aksakov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Market, following his visit to Iran.

"We discussed the issuance of stablecoins, digital financial assets, secured by certain values. For example, I talked about gold," the official said. "The proposal was met with interest, meaning we're moving in the right direction."

According to Aksakov, Iran has a huge debt for goods deliveries from Russia, and fluctuations of the Iranian currency are quite large, given that the country has two exchange rates against the dollar – the one approved by the Central Bank and the market rate. All this creates inconveniences for Russian exporters.

Last summer, Russia’s VEB.RF institution released a report discussing the advantages of a "gold ruble" – a gold-backed digital ruble more akin to a steblecoin, transactions with which are almost impossible to block.

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