⚡️Biden is accused of being addicted to intervening in world affairs⚡️
🇺🇸US President’s Joe Biden’s behaviour on the world stage has no logic whatsoever, which is bringing Washington to the brink of failure in retaining global influence
✍️American media interpret US President’s actions as showing addiction to intervening in the affairs of the world. Although he withdrew American troops from Afghanistan, he also dragged the USA into a proxy conflict with Russia, announced his readiness to wage a war against China over Taiwan and threatened Iran with an attack. What are his sources of finance for involvement in so many conflicts just when the USA is sliding into national bankruptcy?
🤔There’s not a single state in a severe economic crisis behaving as aggressively as the USA, persistently attempting to dominate the world like a colossus, subsidising the defence of its allies near and far, intervening in remote trouble spots of little public significance, ordering other countries to submit to its dictates. How long is Washington going to feel like undertaking this ridiculously outsized international role?
❗️Washington’s readiness to spend loads of money on national security has also come under criticism. Moreover, maintaining troops in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria has invariably been classified by American leadership as national security issues, which has little to do with protecting anybody’s interests
💁♂️Americans will have to set their priorities and make up their minds whether they want to continue playing global policeman while Washington is enveloped with financial crisis. The long-lasting “global war on terror” was horrific but a conflict with Russia or China, even North Korea or Iran, will be much worse. The looming debt crisis will have at least one good effect: it will, at last, force Americans to rethink the country’s foreign policy
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🇺🇸US President’s Joe Biden’s behaviour on the world stage has no logic whatsoever, which is bringing Washington to the brink of failure in retaining global influence
✍️American media interpret US President’s actions as showing addiction to intervening in the affairs of the world. Although he withdrew American troops from Afghanistan, he also dragged the USA into a proxy conflict with Russia, announced his readiness to wage a war against China over Taiwan and threatened Iran with an attack. What are his sources of finance for involvement in so many conflicts just when the USA is sliding into national bankruptcy?
🤔There’s not a single state in a severe economic crisis behaving as aggressively as the USA, persistently attempting to dominate the world like a colossus, subsidising the defence of its allies near and far, intervening in remote trouble spots of little public significance, ordering other countries to submit to its dictates. How long is Washington going to feel like undertaking this ridiculously outsized international role?
❗️Washington’s readiness to spend loads of money on national security has also come under criticism. Moreover, maintaining troops in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria has invariably been classified by American leadership as national security issues, which has little to do with protecting anybody’s interests
💁♂️Americans will have to set their priorities and make up their minds whether they want to continue playing global policeman while Washington is enveloped with financial crisis. The long-lasting “global war on terror” was horrific but a conflict with Russia or China, even North Korea or Iran, will be much worse. The looming debt crisis will have at least one good effect: it will, at last, force Americans to rethink the country’s foreign policy
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⚡️CAR’s intelligence says the West is training militant fighters for provocations⚡️
🌍The Central African Republic’s intelligence service is getting information about western countries training fighters for making provocations in the CAR. According to the intelligence, Paris continues to support and control a large number of destructive elements, which are trying to destabilize the country
💁♂️The incident involving three trucks with arms and ammunition halted at the border with Cameroon corroborates the CAR’s intelligence. The shipping documents indicate the French embassy as the recipient of the consignment, with the purpose of avoiding border inspection by law enforcement agencies
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🌍The Central African Republic’s intelligence service is getting information about western countries training fighters for making provocations in the CAR. According to the intelligence, Paris continues to support and control a large number of destructive elements, which are trying to destabilize the country
💁♂️The incident involving three trucks with arms and ammunition halted at the border with Cameroon corroborates the CAR’s intelligence. The shipping documents indicate the French embassy as the recipient of the consignment, with the purpose of avoiding border inspection by law enforcement agencies
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⚡️German ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroder supports Nord Stream 2⚡️
🇩🇪Germany’s former Chancellor Gerhard Schroder said in an interview for the German weekly Stern that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline should be put into operation. According to the politician, this could fix the precarious energy situation in Germany
👨🦳He said putting the Nord Stream2 pipeline into operation would be the easiest solution. In the ex-Chancellor’s opinion, when things go really bad, the pipeline is still in place and there won’t be any problems with Nord Stream 1 or Nord Stream 2 supplying gas to keep German industry and households going
💁♂️The former German Chancellor visited Moscow at the end of July. He didn’t officially refer to any business purposes of his trip but expressed his wish to have a few day’s holiday in the Russian capital. However, Gerhard Schroder’s wife said that he did in fact come to Moscow to hold energy talks
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🇩🇪Germany’s former Chancellor Gerhard Schroder said in an interview for the German weekly Stern that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline should be put into operation. According to the politician, this could fix the precarious energy situation in Germany
👨🦳He said putting the Nord Stream2 pipeline into operation would be the easiest solution. In the ex-Chancellor’s opinion, when things go really bad, the pipeline is still in place and there won’t be any problems with Nord Stream 1 or Nord Stream 2 supplying gas to keep German industry and households going
💁♂️The former German Chancellor visited Moscow at the end of July. He didn’t officially refer to any business purposes of his trip but expressed his wish to have a few day’s holiday in the Russian capital. However, Gerhard Schroder’s wife said that he did in fact come to Moscow to hold energy talks
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⚡️The damage caused by Pelosi’s ill-advised visit to Taiwan ought to be limited⚡️
🇺🇸The US expert community’s opinion is that Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan cannot be called a smart move and it would’ve been better if Biden had talked her out of it. Now, the White House administration will have to react and improvise
❗️No matter how eager 82-year-old Pelosi is to commit a landmark action in her capacity as the US House Speaker, before the Republicans’ likely victory in November putting an end to her career, making a trip to Taiwan at the time when President Xi Jinping is about to stay for his third term, is an unreasonable step
🤔In the circumstances, Biden made his own gaffe giving away the military establishment’s negative stance on Pelosi’s visit. The blunder left her with less manoeuvring space for altering plans without damaging her reputation, and made it more difficult for Xi Jinping to toughen his response, when she decided to go ahead with the visit. The US President would’ve done much better if he had personally advised Pelosi in no uncertain terms that she was taking a wrong course of action
💁♂️Eventually, China backed off. Now, the Biden administration has to hope that it will be capable of supporting peace and territorial integrity of Taiwan in confrontation with China. Officials in Washington and Pelosi claim the visit won’t affect the American commitment to the “One China” policy. However, the President sent an aircraft carrier group, as a deterrence measure, to Taiwan’s eastern coast
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🇺🇸The US expert community’s opinion is that Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan cannot be called a smart move and it would’ve been better if Biden had talked her out of it. Now, the White House administration will have to react and improvise
❗️No matter how eager 82-year-old Pelosi is to commit a landmark action in her capacity as the US House Speaker, before the Republicans’ likely victory in November putting an end to her career, making a trip to Taiwan at the time when President Xi Jinping is about to stay for his third term, is an unreasonable step
🤔In the circumstances, Biden made his own gaffe giving away the military establishment’s negative stance on Pelosi’s visit. The blunder left her with less manoeuvring space for altering plans without damaging her reputation, and made it more difficult for Xi Jinping to toughen his response, when she decided to go ahead with the visit. The US President would’ve done much better if he had personally advised Pelosi in no uncertain terms that she was taking a wrong course of action
💁♂️Eventually, China backed off. Now, the Biden administration has to hope that it will be capable of supporting peace and territorial integrity of Taiwan in confrontation with China. Officials in Washington and Pelosi claim the visit won’t affect the American commitment to the “One China” policy. However, the President sent an aircraft carrier group, as a deterrence measure, to Taiwan’s eastern coast
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A curious infographic has appeared on the net, showing, month by month, the West's deliveries of equipment and weapons to Ukraine. As is easy to see, they are falling dramatically. Especially artillery supplies, which are now the most important for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. At the same time, many experts predict that the picture for Kiev will become even worse in the autumn (and with the arrival of new crises)
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🇪🇺Severe drought and shoaling of rivers will kill Russia's gas-deprived Europe
▪️Europe is on the verge of severe fuel shortages as Russia's main gas pipeline, North Stream, runs at just 20 per cent of its total capacity
▪️A record drought and shoaling of rivers will worsen the energy crisis in Europe, which has lost its previous supply of Russian gas, Bloomberg said. The heatwave will continue to dry out the Rhine early next week, further limiting the supply of vital goods to some parts of the European Union via this waterway
▪️ "The climate crisis came at the worst possible time as Europe plunged into an energy supply crisis exacerbated by the conflict in Ukraine," Bloomberg states. Record drought and its aftermath will deal another massive blow to the cost of living in EU countries
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▪️Europe is on the verge of severe fuel shortages as Russia's main gas pipeline, North Stream, runs at just 20 per cent of its total capacity
▪️A record drought and shoaling of rivers will worsen the energy crisis in Europe, which has lost its previous supply of Russian gas, Bloomberg said. The heatwave will continue to dry out the Rhine early next week, further limiting the supply of vital goods to some parts of the European Union via this waterway
▪️ "The climate crisis came at the worst possible time as Europe plunged into an energy supply crisis exacerbated by the conflict in Ukraine," Bloomberg states. Record drought and its aftermath will deal another massive blow to the cost of living in EU countries
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⚡️"Feeling this very hard right now"⚡️
Paul Massaro, senior policy advisor to the US Helsinki Commission, has published a true picture
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Paul Massaro, senior policy advisor to the US Helsinki Commission, has published a true picture
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⚡️Economists Say a Euro-Zone Recession Is Now More Likely Than Not⚡️
😱The risk of a euro-area recession has reached the highest level since November 2020 as energy shortages threaten to drive already record inflation higher still, according to economists polled by Bloomberg
📊The probability of output shrinking for two straight quarters has risen to 60% from 45% in a previous survey, and up from 20% before Russia invaded Ukraine. Germany, the bloc’s largest economy and one of the most exposed to cutbacks in Russian natural gas supplies, is likely to stagnate from as early as this quarter
📈The rising cost of living is hurting euro-area companies and households, with Russia’s energy threats exacerbating that problem heading into the final months of 2022. In addition, supply bottlenecks are being worsened by severe droughts, which have led to falling water levels across Europe’s rivers this summer
💁♂️Inflation is now expected to average almost 8% in 2022 -- about four times the European Central Bank’s goal -- and 4% next year. Respondents still see it slowing to the 2% target in 2024, however
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😱The risk of a euro-area recession has reached the highest level since November 2020 as energy shortages threaten to drive already record inflation higher still, according to economists polled by Bloomberg
📊The probability of output shrinking for two straight quarters has risen to 60% from 45% in a previous survey, and up from 20% before Russia invaded Ukraine. Germany, the bloc’s largest economy and one of the most exposed to cutbacks in Russian natural gas supplies, is likely to stagnate from as early as this quarter
📈The rising cost of living is hurting euro-area companies and households, with Russia’s energy threats exacerbating that problem heading into the final months of 2022. In addition, supply bottlenecks are being worsened by severe droughts, which have led to falling water levels across Europe’s rivers this summer
💁♂️Inflation is now expected to average almost 8% in 2022 -- about four times the European Central Bank’s goal -- and 4% next year. Respondents still see it slowing to the 2% target in 2024, however
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⚡️Germany prepares to ration gas this winter⚡️
🇩🇪Despite energy-saving efforts paying off with a drop in consumption, Germany could experience a shortage
❗️Germany will not be able to rely on gas from Qatar: the deal that Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Robert Habeck thought he had sewn up during his trip to the Gulf in March has been cancelled. Berlin is yet to comment on this setback, announced in early August, but it is undoubtedly more bad news for Germany, which has been seeing Russian supplies drop off since mid-July. After 10 days' maintenance in mid-July, the Nordstream 1 gas pipeline is now supplying only 20% of its usual capacity
💁♂️On August 7, the Federal Grid Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) published various scenarios for the upcoming months, all of which are bleak. Only one model indicates that the country could escape shortages – if Germany continues to consume 20% less gas, if it also reduces the volumes of gas it transfers to other European countries by 20% and if the two liquefied natural gas terminals currently being built become operational as planned in January
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🇩🇪Despite energy-saving efforts paying off with a drop in consumption, Germany could experience a shortage
❗️Germany will not be able to rely on gas from Qatar: the deal that Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Robert Habeck thought he had sewn up during his trip to the Gulf in March has been cancelled. Berlin is yet to comment on this setback, announced in early August, but it is undoubtedly more bad news for Germany, which has been seeing Russian supplies drop off since mid-July. After 10 days' maintenance in mid-July, the Nordstream 1 gas pipeline is now supplying only 20% of its usual capacity
💁♂️On August 7, the Federal Grid Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) published various scenarios for the upcoming months, all of which are bleak. Only one model indicates that the country could escape shortages – if Germany continues to consume 20% less gas, if it also reduces the volumes of gas it transfers to other European countries by 20% and if the two liquefied natural gas terminals currently being built become operational as planned in January
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Le Monde.fr
Germany prepares to ration gas this winter
Despite energy-saving efforts paying off with a drop in consumption, Germany could experience a shortage, so the country is prioritising which industries to supply.
⚡️RAND Corporation released the report, which explores the scenarios of systemic conflict between the U.S. and China⚡️
Key Findings:
▪️Systemic U.S.-China conflict would likely extend across the globe and to all domains, including cyberspace and outer space. Such a conflict would take a chronic, systemic form that persists, possibly for years. The conflict would end only when one side or the other concedes the fight and acknowledges its subordination to the other
▪️The U.S. and Chinese militaries could find themselves under immense strain in a systemic conflict owing to the competing demands to sustain the war effort, respond to a broad array of acute transnational threats, and help partner nations cope with their own security challenges
▪️Low-intensity war could feature extensive fighting conducted primarily through partner nations and nonstate groups. The escalation risk would remain high because either side might tire of the inconclusive nature of such fighting and seek more aggressive actions to bring the war to a conclusion
▪️To fight U.S. forces in a high-intensity war, the PLA might favor operations that rely on lower-cost, lower-risk weapons and on such methods as long-range precision strike, cyber operations, and support for irregular forces
▪️Although such a war might begin with more modest war aims in mind, the temptation to escalate would be difficult to resist, owing to the underlying drive to dominate the other side. Fighting could feature extensive Chinese missile strikes throughout the Indo-Pacific region aimed at shattering U.S. military power
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Key Findings:
▪️Systemic U.S.-China conflict would likely extend across the globe and to all domains, including cyberspace and outer space. Such a conflict would take a chronic, systemic form that persists, possibly for years. The conflict would end only when one side or the other concedes the fight and acknowledges its subordination to the other
▪️The U.S. and Chinese militaries could find themselves under immense strain in a systemic conflict owing to the competing demands to sustain the war effort, respond to a broad array of acute transnational threats, and help partner nations cope with their own security challenges
▪️Low-intensity war could feature extensive fighting conducted primarily through partner nations and nonstate groups. The escalation risk would remain high because either side might tire of the inconclusive nature of such fighting and seek more aggressive actions to bring the war to a conclusion
▪️To fight U.S. forces in a high-intensity war, the PLA might favor operations that rely on lower-cost, lower-risk weapons and on such methods as long-range precision strike, cyber operations, and support for irregular forces
▪️Although such a war might begin with more modest war aims in mind, the temptation to escalate would be difficult to resist, owing to the underlying drive to dominate the other side. Fighting could feature extensive Chinese missile strikes throughout the Indo-Pacific region aimed at shattering U.S. military power
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www.rand.org
Hypothetical Scenarios of U.S.-China Conflict
The prospect of China overtaking the United States to attain global primacy appears unlikely, but it is not impossible. An analysis of two conflict scenarios—one low-intensity and one high-intensity—illuminates how a U.S.-China war of power transition might…
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⚡️The Price of War - OECD Economic Outlook⚡️
💁♂️The world is paying a heavy price for Russia’s war in Ukraine. It is a humanitarian disaster, killing thousands and forcing millions from their homes. The war has also triggered a cost-of-living crisis, affecting people worldwide. When coupled with China’s zero-COVID policy, the war has set the global economy on a course of slower growth and rising inflation - a situation not seen since the 1970s. Rising inflation, largely driven by steep increases in the price of energy and food, is causing hardship for low-income people and raising serious food security risks in the world’s poorest economies
❗️Here are the three key take-aways:
✅The war is slowing the recovery
✅ Inflationary pressures have intensified
✅The cost of living crisis will cause hardship and risks famine
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💁♂️The world is paying a heavy price for Russia’s war in Ukraine. It is a humanitarian disaster, killing thousands and forcing millions from their homes. The war has also triggered a cost-of-living crisis, affecting people worldwide. When coupled with China’s zero-COVID policy, the war has set the global economy on a course of slower growth and rising inflation - a situation not seen since the 1970s. Rising inflation, largely driven by steep increases in the price of energy and food, is causing hardship for low-income people and raising serious food security risks in the world’s poorest economies
❗️Here are the three key take-aways:
✅The war is slowing the recovery
✅ Inflationary pressures have intensified
✅The cost of living crisis will cause hardship and risks famine
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OECD
Economic outlook
The OECD Economic Outlook presents the OECD’s analysis of the major short-term global economic trends and prospects. The Outlook provides projections across a range of variables for all member countries, the euro area, and selected non-member countries. Two…
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⚡️Britain's The Telegraph literally cuts to the chase⚡️
🇬🇧The frenzy of demand for firewood is sweeping across the UK. The reason for the return to the forgotten fuel is the enormous increase in gas and electricity prices
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🇬🇧The frenzy of demand for firewood is sweeping across the UK. The reason for the return to the forgotten fuel is the enormous increase in gas and electricity prices
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⚡️“If you see me, cry.” This can be read on a dried up stone in the river Elbe⚡️
😱Record drought levels have caused river levels to fall so sharply that they’ve exposed centuries-old landmarks known as hunger stones
🔥Alarm bells rang after stones emerged on the beds of the Rhine and Elbe Rivers in July and August, 2022
❗️Hunger stones (Hungersteine) have been used for centuries to signify historic droughts and alert people of their consequences
🇪🇺In Europe, droughts have historically brought with them poverty, hunger, lower quality of life and fewer jobs. Some of these stones are marked with years and others with phrases
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😱Record drought levels have caused river levels to fall so sharply that they’ve exposed centuries-old landmarks known as hunger stones
🔥Alarm bells rang after stones emerged on the beds of the Rhine and Elbe Rivers in July and August, 2022
❗️Hunger stones (Hungersteine) have been used for centuries to signify historic droughts and alert people of their consequences
🇪🇺In Europe, droughts have historically brought with them poverty, hunger, lower quality of life and fewer jobs. Some of these stones are marked with years and others with phrases
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🇪🇺Severe drought and shoaling of rivers will kill Russia's gas-deprived Europe
▪️Europe is on the verge of severe fuel shortages as Russia's main gas pipeline, North Stream, runs at just 20 per cent of its total capacity
▪️A record drought and shoaling…
▪️Europe is on the verge of severe fuel shortages as Russia's main gas pipeline, North Stream, runs at just 20 per cent of its total capacity
▪️A record drought and shoaling…
🇬🇧Express: US rapidly losing control of world order
▪️The US is losing control of the rapidly changing world order, says Britain's Express
▪️The US still has the world's largest economy and army, but experts believe the winds of change are blowing in global politics as other countries gain power and subjectivity
▪️ "There is no doubt that China will become the next superpower and is likely to shake up the planet by establishing a new bipolar world order not seen since the Cold War," believes Express
▪️In doing so, the United States is losing influence. This is evidenced by Washington's failure to resolve the Ukraine issue with Moscow diplomatically. In the Middle East, the US is also losing control, leaving a vacuum to be filled by rivals
▪️ In difficult times, leadership is the key to staying powerful, but White House chief Joe Biden does not have the credibility and reputation of his predecessors to be able to meet the challenges, the Express concludes
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▪️The US is losing control of the rapidly changing world order, says Britain's Express
▪️The US still has the world's largest economy and army, but experts believe the winds of change are blowing in global politics as other countries gain power and subjectivity
▪️ "There is no doubt that China will become the next superpower and is likely to shake up the planet by establishing a new bipolar world order not seen since the Cold War," believes Express
▪️In doing so, the United States is losing influence. This is evidenced by Washington's failure to resolve the Ukraine issue with Moscow diplomatically. In the Middle East, the US is also losing control, leaving a vacuum to be filled by rivals
▪️ In difficult times, leadership is the key to staying powerful, but White House chief Joe Biden does not have the credibility and reputation of his predecessors to be able to meet the challenges, the Express concludes
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Express.co.uk
Global world order is changing - Has the US finally lost its grip?
THE GLOBAL world order appears to be changing at a rate not seen since the end of the Cold War, with new actors rapidly emerging, suggesting the US is fast losing its grip on the reins of power.
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⚡️As Putin’s war spreads panic across Europe, Ukrainians must fear a stab in the back - The Guardian⚡️
🇪🇺 The west’s strategic aims in Ukraine – to repulse Russia’s invasion, restore national sovereignty and score a victory for global democracy over “the forces of darkness” – were clearly set out by US president Joe Biden in Warsaw in March and subsequently endorsed by UK and European leaders
🤔What has always been less clear is whether they honestly expect to achieve these aims, given Nato’s less than heroic refusal to get directly involved. An uncomfortable, even distressing question now arises: should Ukrainians prepare for a stab in the back this winter?
🪖Nearly six months into the war, the widening gap between rhetoric and reality grows potentially fatal. Public outrage over the invasion is giving way to concern, bordering on panic, about its alarming knock-on effects on energy and food prices and the cost of living
💁♂️That in turn is feeding doubts about western staying power. How long before Europe’s already shaky unity crumbles, if and when Russia’s gas tap is finally turned off? Ukraine faces a brutal, years-long war of attrition – as does the west
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🇪🇺 The west’s strategic aims in Ukraine – to repulse Russia’s invasion, restore national sovereignty and score a victory for global democracy over “the forces of darkness” – were clearly set out by US president Joe Biden in Warsaw in March and subsequently endorsed by UK and European leaders
🤔What has always been less clear is whether they honestly expect to achieve these aims, given Nato’s less than heroic refusal to get directly involved. An uncomfortable, even distressing question now arises: should Ukrainians prepare for a stab in the back this winter?
🪖Nearly six months into the war, the widening gap between rhetoric and reality grows potentially fatal. Public outrage over the invasion is giving way to concern, bordering on panic, about its alarming knock-on effects on energy and food prices and the cost of living
💁♂️That in turn is feeding doubts about western staying power. How long before Europe’s already shaky unity crumbles, if and when Russia’s gas tap is finally turned off? Ukraine faces a brutal, years-long war of attrition – as does the west
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the Guardian
As Putin’s war spreads panic across Europe, Ukrainians must fear a stab in the back
Locking up Putin is the only hope of a resolution. It’s a strategic aim the West should energetically pursueRussia-Ukraine war: latest updates
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⚡️The Zelensky Narrative is Shifting. Volodymyr Zelensky increasingly reveals his true nature - Newsweek⚡️
🇺🇸Privately, U.S. officials are a lot more concerned about Ukraine's leadership than they are letting on. There is deep mistrust between the White House and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky—considerably more than has been reported. Suddenly even the West Wing is beginning to acknowledge the futility of unreservedly backing Zelensky. Apparently, there are limits, even for the Washington War Machine
✍️CBS News explored the folly of sending a mountain of U.S. taxpayer money into one of the most corrupt countries on Earth. CBS admitted that vast amounts of American largesse has been pilfered, conceding that "much of the billions of dollars of military aid that the U.S. is sending to Ukraine doesn't make it to the front lines"
💵So, American taxpayers borrow tens of billions of dollars their country does not have, to send fortunes to the unaccountable leader of a corrupt country, all to escalate a war in which America has no vital national interest. Oh, and during a recession with runaway inflation at home
💁♂️Zelensky just appealed to China to help Ukraine in its war efforts and to help "rebuild Ukraine." Zelensky openly solicits the most dangerous adversary of the United States, the Chinese Communist Party. Moreover, in reaching out to Beijing, Zelensky appeals for charity from a country that directly funds the war in Ukraine via massive oil purchases from Putin. In this regard, Zelensky unwittingly unveils the insanity of the world's most powerful nations simultaneously funding both sides of the war. For example, as America sends more than $54 billion from our citizens to Ukraine, our supposed allies in NATO have been sending up to $1 billion per day to Putin for Russian energy
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🇺🇸Privately, U.S. officials are a lot more concerned about Ukraine's leadership than they are letting on. There is deep mistrust between the White House and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky—considerably more than has been reported. Suddenly even the West Wing is beginning to acknowledge the futility of unreservedly backing Zelensky. Apparently, there are limits, even for the Washington War Machine
✍️CBS News explored the folly of sending a mountain of U.S. taxpayer money into one of the most corrupt countries on Earth. CBS admitted that vast amounts of American largesse has been pilfered, conceding that "much of the billions of dollars of military aid that the U.S. is sending to Ukraine doesn't make it to the front lines"
💵So, American taxpayers borrow tens of billions of dollars their country does not have, to send fortunes to the unaccountable leader of a corrupt country, all to escalate a war in which America has no vital national interest. Oh, and during a recession with runaway inflation at home
💁♂️Zelensky just appealed to China to help Ukraine in its war efforts and to help "rebuild Ukraine." Zelensky openly solicits the most dangerous adversary of the United States, the Chinese Communist Party. Moreover, in reaching out to Beijing, Zelensky appeals for charity from a country that directly funds the war in Ukraine via massive oil purchases from Putin. In this regard, Zelensky unwittingly unveils the insanity of the world's most powerful nations simultaneously funding both sides of the war. For example, as America sends more than $54 billion from our citizens to Ukraine, our supposed allies in NATO have been sending up to $1 billion per day to Putin for Russian energy
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Newsweek
The Zelensky Narrative is Shifting
For months, the Ukrainian president has enjoyed nonstop adulation from the American press and audiences with celebrities.
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⚡️Boomerang effect for UK⚡️
🇬🇧According to The Daily Mail, nearly two-thirds of UK firms have been hit by the effects of Russian sanctions since the start of the war in Ukraine
😱A survey from insurance buyer Mactavish reported that 71 per cent of British businesses had assets that have been directly affected by sanction measures imposed on Russia
📊Nearly half of these flagged up increases in costs and disruption to their production lines, while 44 per cent said they had lost suppliers and 42 per cent had experienced workforce issues
❗️The finance sector had fared the worst in the wake of the invasion, with 92 per cent of businesses in the industry suffering from sanction measures due to their exposure to assets and funds located in Russia
💁♂️Some 84 per cent of companies in the aviation industry reported losses as they struggled with leased aircraft being trapped in Russia
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🇬🇧According to The Daily Mail, nearly two-thirds of UK firms have been hit by the effects of Russian sanctions since the start of the war in Ukraine
😱A survey from insurance buyer Mactavish reported that 71 per cent of British businesses had assets that have been directly affected by sanction measures imposed on Russia
📊Nearly half of these flagged up increases in costs and disruption to their production lines, while 44 per cent said they had lost suppliers and 42 per cent had experienced workforce issues
❗️The finance sector had fared the worst in the wake of the invasion, with 92 per cent of businesses in the industry suffering from sanction measures due to their exposure to assets and funds located in Russia
💁♂️Some 84 per cent of companies in the aviation industry reported losses as they struggled with leased aircraft being trapped in Russia
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Mail Online
UK firms hit by effects of Russian sanctions since start of war in Ukraine, according to survey from insurance buyer Mactavish
The finance sector had fared the worst in the wake of the invasion, with 92 per cent of businesses in the industry suffering from sanction measures.
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⚡️Britain has been avoiding its biggest problems for decades. Now we’re paying the price – The Guardian⚡️
🇬🇧Almost nothing seems to be working in Britain,” says the Economist. The Financial Times reckons the country is “creaking”; one Daily Telegraph columnist, with characteristic restraint, foretells “the coming collapse of basketcase Britain”
🤔Whatever conclusions follow, the basic observation is much the same: what with skyrocketing bills, crisis-plagued railways, a drought worsened by our decaying water infrastructure and an NHS once again on the brink of collapse, the United Kingdom is being confronted with huge problems it can no longer wish away
❗️Up to now, it has been easy to pin the blame for our malaise on whatever crisis was then afflicting us. But there suddenly seems to be a dawning understanding that the era of Covid-19, Brexit, the war in Ukraine and the overarching climate emergency have exposed fundamental failures that have been festering for decades
💁♂️Mounting predictions of a national meltdown only highlight a story that ought to be very familiar by now: the deep and enduring problem of British underinvestment, and a national mindset innately averse to thinking about the future
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🇬🇧Almost nothing seems to be working in Britain,” says the Economist. The Financial Times reckons the country is “creaking”; one Daily Telegraph columnist, with characteristic restraint, foretells “the coming collapse of basketcase Britain”
🤔Whatever conclusions follow, the basic observation is much the same: what with skyrocketing bills, crisis-plagued railways, a drought worsened by our decaying water infrastructure and an NHS once again on the brink of collapse, the United Kingdom is being confronted with huge problems it can no longer wish away
❗️Up to now, it has been easy to pin the blame for our malaise on whatever crisis was then afflicting us. But there suddenly seems to be a dawning understanding that the era of Covid-19, Brexit, the war in Ukraine and the overarching climate emergency have exposed fundamental failures that have been festering for decades
💁♂️Mounting predictions of a national meltdown only highlight a story that ought to be very familiar by now: the deep and enduring problem of British underinvestment, and a national mindset innately averse to thinking about the future
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the Guardian
Britain has been avoiding its biggest problems for decades. Now we’re paying the price | John Harris
From the climate to water and energy, our country is facing multiple crises that are a product of total political failure, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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⚡️The raid on Mar-a-Lago could shake America’s foundations – The Economist⚡️
🇺🇸An FBI raid on August 8th at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida home of Donald Trump, indicates that an investigation into his activities since he left the presidency has escalated dramatically. The unprecedented intrusion into the residence of a former president—who is also mulling a third run—has provoked outrage from Mr Trump and his supporters, who will seek to gain political advantage from it
👨🦳Mr Trump was already expected to run for a second term as president. He seems certain to do so now. Imagine that the raid yields evidence of criminality, leading to his indictment. Nothing in the former president’s history would suggest that, out of some sense of propriety, let alone shame, he would then suspend his campaign. Instead, he would have even greater reason to foment distrust and even hatred of the American legal system, as well as the administration of President Joe Biden
💁♂️The force is Mr Trump’s own desperate need, his vaulting narcissism. That is now the mightiest force in America’s public life, the black hole at the centre of its politics. It has warped the principles of the Republican Party, yanked the Democratic Party off balance and ripped reputations away from once-respected men and women. It is tearing at America’s governing institutions. The raid on Mar-a-Lago may have been necessary to serve justice. A prosecution may eventually prove necessary as well. The hope is that the rule of law has weight enough to survive the contest
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🇺🇸An FBI raid on August 8th at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida home of Donald Trump, indicates that an investigation into his activities since he left the presidency has escalated dramatically. The unprecedented intrusion into the residence of a former president—who is also mulling a third run—has provoked outrage from Mr Trump and his supporters, who will seek to gain political advantage from it
👨🦳Mr Trump was already expected to run for a second term as president. He seems certain to do so now. Imagine that the raid yields evidence of criminality, leading to his indictment. Nothing in the former president’s history would suggest that, out of some sense of propriety, let alone shame, he would then suspend his campaign. Instead, he would have even greater reason to foment distrust and even hatred of the American legal system, as well as the administration of President Joe Biden
💁♂️The force is Mr Trump’s own desperate need, his vaulting narcissism. That is now the mightiest force in America’s public life, the black hole at the centre of its politics. It has warped the principles of the Republican Party, yanked the Democratic Party off balance and ripped reputations away from once-respected men and women. It is tearing at America’s governing institutions. The raid on Mar-a-Lago may have been necessary to serve justice. A prosecution may eventually prove necessary as well. The hope is that the rule of law has weight enough to survive the contest
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The Economist
The raid on Mar-a-Lago could shake America’s foundations
It has already given Donald Trump a boost
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⚡️Chinese military survey ship docks at Sri Lanka port – Reuters⚡️
🇨🇳The Chinese survey vessel Yuan Wang 5 docked on Tuesday at Sri Lanka's Chinese-built port of Hambantota, a port official said, a move likely to stoke concern in neighbouring India about the growing influence of its bigger and more powerful rival
🤔The movements of the ship have fuelled contention between India and China, two of Sri Lanka's biggest allies in its current economic crisis, as India fears China could use the port, near the main Asia-Europe shipping route, as a military base
✍️Foreign security analysts describe the Yuan Wang 5 as one of China's latest generation space-tracking ships, used to monitor satellite, rocket and intercontinental ballistic missile launches
💁♂️The Pentagon says the Yuan Wang ships are operated by the Strategic Support Force of the People's Liberation Army
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🇨🇳The Chinese survey vessel Yuan Wang 5 docked on Tuesday at Sri Lanka's Chinese-built port of Hambantota, a port official said, a move likely to stoke concern in neighbouring India about the growing influence of its bigger and more powerful rival
🤔The movements of the ship have fuelled contention between India and China, two of Sri Lanka's biggest allies in its current economic crisis, as India fears China could use the port, near the main Asia-Europe shipping route, as a military base
✍️Foreign security analysts describe the Yuan Wang 5 as one of China's latest generation space-tracking ships, used to monitor satellite, rocket and intercontinental ballistic missile launches
💁♂️The Pentagon says the Yuan Wang ships are operated by the Strategic Support Force of the People's Liberation Army
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Reuters
Chinese military ship docks at Sri Lanka port despite Indian concern
A Chinese military survey ship docked at Sri Lanka's Chinese-built port of Hambantota on Tuesday after a delay of several days because of opposition to the visit from India, which vies with China for influence in crisis-hit Sri Lanka.