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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⚡️"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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⚡️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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⚡️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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⚡️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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⚡️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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⚡️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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⚡️“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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🇬🇧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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⚡️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 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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⚡️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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⚡️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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⚡️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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⚡️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 conflict was presented to me as positional, not like that at all": Croatian mercenary facing death penalty

⚔️204 Croatian citizens were fighting on the side of Ukraine. However, by early August, only 49 remained. The rest had either been destroyed or left Ukraine. One Croatian prisoner, Vjekoslav Prebeg, is officially listed as a prisoner of war

▪️ Prebeg was born in Zagreb in 1982. According to the mercenary, he had no combat experience before the war. However, he was known to have served in the Croatian Armed Forces for five years

▪️ In Ukraine Vjekoslav got in December 2019. In social networks, he wrote that he lived in Nikolaev. Claims that he wanted to serve three years to get citizenship and stay in the country. The reason: he fell in love with a Ukrainian girl, who cared for her sick mother and refused to leave her. Prebeg assures that he did not want to kill anyone, and the conflict was presented to him as "positional," without active hostilities

▪️According to Prebeg, he doesn't consider himself a mercenary. He serves in the army - in the Ukrainian Marine Corps, with which he signed a contract on May 25, 2020. "I hope that they believe me and will treat me the same way they treat Ukrainian prisoners of war. I just want to live," Prebeg told the interview. Vjekoslav also admitted that there were three other foreigners serving in his battalion, all from Great Britain

▪️ The Croatian was detained in spring in Mariupol when he tried to escape together with Ukrainian fighters. He later confessed that during the hostilities in Mariupol he had received orders not to let civilians out of the city

▪️ The tribunal must determine the degree of the Croatian citizen's guilt. Given Prebeg's foreign nationality, he could face the death penalty

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⚡️A U.S.-Russia nuclear war could starve 5 billion to death⚡️

😱Some two-thirds of the world could starve to death in the event of a nuclear war between Russia and the United States, according to a Rutgers University-led study published Monday. Nuclear conflict would lead to “catastrophic” disruptions in food supplies, as sun-blocking soot and ash wilt crops around the world, researchers wrote in the peer-reviewed study published in the journal Nature Food

❗️The researchers examined how wind patterns could spread smoke and fire from nuclear attacks and cloud skies above major food exporters such as the United States and China. The lack of sunlight would collapse harvests and could lead to a 90 percent drop in animal, fishing and crop yields worldwide within four years of a conflict between major nuclear powers

💁‍♂️Nuclear war would compound existing threats to food security. Climate change, the war in Ukraine and the coronavirus pandemic have already severely disrupted global food production. A record 345 million people around the world face food insecurity, an increase of nearly 200 million compared with pre-pandemic levels, according to the World Food Program

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⚡️In a show of strength, the U.S. has once again tested its Minuteman III ICBMs⚡️

⚔️At 12:49 a.m. Pacific Time on the 16th of August 2022, the Global Strike Command of the Air Force launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to show the readiness of American nuclear forces. The test was also to instill confidence in the lethality and efficacy of the country's nuclear deterrent

💁‍♂️This test launch is a regular part of what the United States does to show its allies that its nuclear deterrent is safe, secure, reliable, and able to stop threats in the twenty-first century. These tests have taken place more than 300 times before, and they are allegedly unrelated to the current state of the globe

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⚡️Is Britain "running its tentacles" into the U.S. defense industry?⚡️

🇬🇧British defense corporation QinetiQ to acquire software provider Avantus Federal for $590 million

🇺🇸Avantus Federal is a U.S.-based organization that has been developing software for U.S. intelligence agencies, the National Security Agency and the Pentagon since 2016

💸Over the past three years, the company's revenues have grown at a phenomenal rate: Avantus earned $298 million in its regular fiscal year ending June 30, 2022 alone

✍️The CEO of QinetiQ himself does not hide the corporation's intentions: "This acquisition is an important step in QinetiQ's five-year ambition to expand its presence in the United States, the world's largest market in security and defense"

🤔The Washington authorities did not even try to take the initiative from the British in this matter - and this despite the fact that a sharp increase in revenues of the company was noticeable already two years ago

💁‍♂️In Britain, not only are they making money, but they are slowly getting their hands on the most successful U.S. companies that carry out government defense contracts

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