Another case of lions led by donkeys: Britain’s most hapless general is rewarded for wretched failure A top defence chief has received £120,000 ($161,306) in bonuses since 2018 despite having mismanaged the spending of millions of pounds on tanks that can’t be used and left hundreds of soldiers needing medical attention.
Hundreds of thousands of persons ill with conventional illnesses have been pushed into the bottom drawer as the ruling elite backed by the Press and protected y State Police pivot to the far more profitable Covid related campaigns. As a consequence, tens of thousands will perish either needlessly or before their time to die.
The business of war is profitable. In one year alone, 2011, the 100 largest contractors sold $410 billion in arms and military services. Just 10 of those companies sold over $208 billion.
London should look at its own crimes in destroying Iraq before lecturing other nations on the issue of refugees, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said, on Sunday, responding to comments by the UK foreign secretary.
Creating a war psychosis, the NATO West’s media are hyping war with Russia despite NATO recently suffering international ridicule following their humiliating retreat from Afghanistan and abandoning their assets to nomadic tribesmen.
Over 100 thousand people took part in the Independence Day march in Warsaw after Poland’s nationalist government found a loophole that allowed the event, even though a court earlier declared it illegal due to Covid-19 restrictions.
In Britain, there is growing despondency over hapless government, both national and local. Political and military miscalculation and failure is not however a modern phenomenon. Britain’s success on the world’s battlefields is often been down to a combination of good luck, timing, cocksure invincibility, or favourable alliance with other nations.
For over two weeks, corporate media – the keyboard government plays on, has been beating the war drums to justify throwing Ukraine to the wolves when the US positions to justify a Ukraine-Russia conflagration.
Washington and Brussels antagonism towards politically neutral Belarus right into Russia’s arms – literally. The pragmatic Belarus fourth-term president Alexander Lukashenko was for years a benign but wary friend of the Western powers.
When on February 8, 1961, the MV King Arthur steamed out of Liverpool the sailors on-board the freighter couldn’t have known that one of their ports of call would be the scene of The British Empire’s Last Battle.
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