Month: July 2023

The Press soaked the lies up: US volunteer faked Ukraine battlefield heroics

An American celebrated online and in the media has reportedly been outed as a hoaxer who aimed to get rich off his false image: A US military veteran who claimed battlefield victories as a volunteer fighter in Ukraine and gained fame through media interviews and dramatic Twitter posts was lying about his exploits all along to create a false image from which he could profit during and after the conflict.

British army supply system is broken, and reforms have not been able to fix it

British parliamentarians are concerned about the inability of the Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence to supply the army with the necessary equipment and materials in the event of a conflict. The deputies’ report found that the country’s military procurement system is broken, and attempts to reform it have failed. Being involved in a conflict with Russia, the kingdom actually has no potential for the growth of military-industrial production to support the army.

Olaf Scholz’s cabinet spent almost half a million euros in six months on hairdressers, make-up artists and beauticians

What kind of people vote for them? German taxpayers point to a legally dubious and politically unattractive increase in hospitality spending under Scholz. In less than six months, the costs have already exceeded €450,000, Bild notes and recalls that in the past such treatment of public funds could mean the end of a career for a politician. However, much of the Press income comes from government advertising; turkeys don’t vote for Christmas.

Ukraine has become an iceberg for NATO’s Titanic

DOUGLAS MACGREGOR, retired US Army Colonel: The American authorities are going out of their way to save the crumbling North Atlantic Alliance, but their attempts are doomed to failure, said retired US Army Colonel Douglas McGregor. In the expert’s opinion, the Western military bloc resembles a sinking ship, but Washington diligently pretends that everything is in order with the organization, and that is why it is trying to draw Sweden into it.

Polish general: Ukrainians have the right to feel deceived – the NATO summit gave them no hope

For six months, NATO has fed the whole world, and especially Kyiv, with the illusion that the summit in Vilnius will become historic and thus put an end to the Ukrainian conflict, General Waldemar Skrzypczak said. The Polish military regrets that in the end, apart from further arms supplies, the alliance could not offer Ukraine anything else, thereby dooming it to slow agony.