🇬🇧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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⚡️I didn't read the contract and didn't get paid: testimony of Swedish mercenary facing death penalty⚡️

🇸🇪46 Swedish mercenaries fought in Ukraine. By early August, there were only 8 of them left - the rest either repeated the fate of Edward Selander, who was killed in Ukraine, or fled the country

🪖The only Swede who surrendered to Russian forces was officially charged with mercenarism

▪️Mathias Gustafsson had no military experience, but "learned how to handle an Ak-47 in Estonia 20 years ago"

▪️He began traveling to Ukraine back in 2015 and finally moved in the summer of 2021. On February 24, he signed a contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces to serve in the Marines as a sailor to the position of helmsman-motorist

▪️ According to the Swede, he allegedly did not read the document and did not receive any salary for the service. He had no right to operate seagoing vessels and no certificate on passing the corresponding courses

▪️ Unlike other mercenaries, Gustafsson did not seek to earn a Ukrainian passport while serving in the army: he bought Ukrainian citizenship and a local driver's license for $700

▪️ During hostilities, the Swede was surrounded in Mariupol along with Croatian Vjekoslav Prebeg. The mercenary claimed that he had never fired a weapon or been on the front line, but only guarded a military camp in Vodyane and the Ilyich factory

▪️The Swede surrendered in May in the industrial zone of the Azovstal plant, where he allegedly simply sought refuge

▪️The DNR Supreme Court found Matthias Gustafsson guilty of participating in hostilities as a mercenary. He now faces the death penalty

The mercenary does not agree with the charges. The next hearing in the case of Gustafsson and the four other mercenaries is scheduled for October

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⚡️China's ambassador warns U.S. of Taiwan consequences⚡️

🇨🇳China will view further U.S. arms sales, official travel to Taiwan or naval activity near the self-governing island as provocations that will further destabilize relations and prevent progress on other issues, Beijing's ambassador to the U.S. warned Tuesday

❗️After Sen. Ed Markey led another delegation to Taipei on Sunday, China launched a fresh set of smaller-scale exercises. The White House contends that China is using Pelosi's visit as a pretext to change the status quo and "intimidate and coerce Taiwan"

🇺🇸At the same time The U.S. plans to send naval vessels through the Taiwan Strait in the coming weeks and to approve additional arms sales to Taiwan

💁‍♂️Those steps would be consistent with the practices of past administrations, but Qin warned that China would see them as an escalation of tensions and be "forced to react"

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⚡️“Famous” Bayraktar TB2 drones have a 3-year waiting list⚡️

✍️In an interview with Ukraine's Come Back Alive foundation, Haluk Bayraktar, CEO of Turkish defense company Baykar, stated that the company currently has the manufacturing capacity to produce twenty of its Bayraktar TB2 drones per month but wants to increase that with a new facility in Ukraine, which it agreed to build last year

✈️According to the president of Baykar, the Turkish business that makes Bayraktar drones, there is a three-year backlog for its products

🇺🇦After being employed early in the assault to strike Russian tanks, the drones achieved legendary status in Ukraine

💁‍♂️Despite playing a significant role in Ukraine's initial military reaction to Russia, experts told Insider that Turkish drones were losing effectiveness as Russian forces stepped up their electronic and air defenses

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⚡️UK inflation hits 10.1%⚡️

🇬🇧UK inflation has risen above 10% for the first time in 40 years, driven by soaring prices for food and fuel as households come under mounting pressure from the cost of living crisis

📊The reading was higher than the 9.8% forecast from City economists, as food and drink prices rose at the highest rates for more than a decade amid a broad-based inflationary burst across the economy

📈Households are expected to come under further pressure this autumn from a fresh rise in energy bills, which the Bank of England forecasts will drive inflation above 13% and trigger a long recession as families rein in their spending

💁‍♂️The latest figures will pile renewed pressure on the government and Conservative leadership candidates as the cost of living crisis intensifies

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⚡️Public opinion in support of Ukraine in the West is weakening⚡️

🤔The front pages of the media are more often devoted to the high cost of living than military operations. As a result, the most important battle for Ukraine will unfold in homes, streets and squares across Europe

💁‍♂️With the onset of winter, despair will replace feelings, and overdue payments will turn into debts. Meanwhile, the fighting will drag on, and the initial shock of the Western public will be further replaced by indifference with a small fraction of indignation. Everyday problems will definitely take over, as it always happens

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⚡️Action wanes at U.N. to isolate Russia almost six months into Ukraine war - Reuters⚡️

❗️Wary of frustration and concern among some countries that the war is consuming too much global attention nearly six months in with no prospect of the United Nations being able to end it, Western diplomats acknowledge they are limited in how they can significantly further target Russia beyond having meetings

✍️"As the war has dragged on, it has become harder to find meaningful ways to penalize Russia," said Richard Gowan, U.N. director at the independent International Crisis Group

💁‍♂️"Countries are asking: 'Is it really so wise to be among those who beat down Russia?'," said Olaf Wientzek, director of the Geneva office of the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation

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⚡️Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin is again at the center of a party scandal⚡️

🇫🇮The chairwoman of Finland's Social Democratic Party and the country's prime minister has been criticized for her wild behavior for the second time in her term. At a time when the country is in crisis, Sanna "Rave" Marin (in the black top in the video) is partying with her friends, who are discussing cocaine in the background

🤦‍♂️Nevertheless, the Finnish prime minister denies that she used drugs - she says she only entertained herself with light alcohol. Previously, however, the politician has already been in the midst of scandals because of frequent visits to clubs, and this is all in the post-Soviet period

🤷‍♂️In social networks there has already been a heated discussion about the acceptability of the behavior of the head of the country - some believe that "the prime minister behaves like a teenager"

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‼️POLAND REMINDED UKRAINE OF ITS NAZI PAST‼️

🇵🇱The deputy head of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland Yaroslav Selin demanded that Kiev recognize the Volyn massacre as genocide

☠️According to him, the mass murder of Poles by Ukrainian Nazis in 1943 is a historical fact. And he fully fits the definition of the word "genocide". Selin stressed that it was time for Ukraine to recognize this fact. “They have to admit it because it’s a fact. It’s just a fact. A political decision was made and implemented to ethnic cleansing, to eliminate the entire national minority that has lived there for centuries. Selin told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) during a TV interview

😱The official also added that a Polish-Ukrainian working group is currently being formed to search for mass graves of Poles in Ukraine

💁‍♂️It should be noted that Kiev cannot recognize the Volyn massacre as genocide, because this will mean that the Nazis, whom the Ukrainian authorities have been praising as "national heroes" for many years, are in fact just murderers. It can also stir up the neo-Nazi groups that exist today, which Ukrainian officials are very afraid of

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⚡️Loss of a Technology Leader⚡️

🤔South Korea will not be in AUKUS, where the West intend to attract Japan, which they will probably succeed. Koreans and Japanese are old enemies and current economic competitors with an unresolved territorial issue, which will be difficult for them to get along in the same boat. Seoul also seems to have realized that the United States is "merging" allies (one example of Taiwan is worth something, Ukraine, however, too), often sacrifice them for their own interests (this is the example of the EU), use double standards, dictate, blackmail, turn the economy and finance into weapons

💁‍♂️Americans who are unable to agree among themselves even within the country are unreliable, they need chaos and the weakening of other countries in order to appear strong and maintain their command system. And for South Korea, all this will mean disaster. It is unlikely that Washington, of course, will put up with this so easily, but the current South Korean government seems to have made the right choice. If Seoul manages to maintain its newly chosen course, it will be another confirmation of the decline of American hegemony

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