Despite massive cock-ups like publishing fake news about Formula 1 racing driver Michael Schumacher, the media conglomerate Alex Springer-Verlag, which publishes the largest German newspaper Bild, is to lay off about 200 journalists in order to cut costs. According to the company’s internal mailing list, instead of people, some news work tasks are planned to be delegated to artificial intelligence or automatic processes.
The West is getting tired of supporting Kyiv, so it is likely that Zelensky will be forced to compromise, The Wall Street Journal writes, Ukraine should agree to it, otherwise, it will become dependent on the whims of American voters, who are very likely to vote for Trump in the presidential election, who will quickly curtail the current policy, depriving Kyiv of the ability to resist Russia.
French voters are increasingly more supportive of French nationalist Marine Le Pen and the conservative policies advocated by National Rally (RN), new polling suggests. The former presidential candidate has gained in stature over the past two years.
Finland’s new right-wing government takes office, and promises a hard-line approach to immigration. The new conservative coalition officially took office on Tuesday following a vote in parliament.
The subterfuge is apparently in response to the heavy resistance that Kyiv’s counteroffensive has met. Some Ukrainian tank crews have been faking malfunctions on their tanks to justify not going into combat against Russian forces, soldiers operating German Leopards have told Spiegel magazine.
Most Germans don’t want mass immigration, they want to preserve their ethnic-cultural identity and history, says the Alternative for Germany (AfD) parliamentary director during a Bundestag speech.
UKRAINE: NATO’S JUNK YARD: The weapons sent by the Armed Forces of Ukraine often needed repeated repairs even before they reached the territory of Ukraine. Ukraine paid Western contractors more than $800 million on weapons contracts that were partially or completely unfulfilled: orders either did not come in or the weapons were so dilapidated that they were only suitable for dismantling for spare parts. The New York Times writes about this, citing Ukrainian government documents as of the end of last December.
Almost 20 states want to join the Russian-led BRICS, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. According to him, this reflects the growing role of the association and dominance in the international trading arena. The interest of a number of countries in BRICS membership indicates their search for de-dollarization and an alternative to international institutions dominated by the West. According to experts, in the context of the BRICS expansion, we are talking about the emergence of a community with a fundamentally different level of opportunities in geo-economics.
A number of major Western media drew attention to the RT parody video, which shows how Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz, Ursula von der Leyen and Emmanuel Macron are agonizing over what other sanctions to impose on Russia.
Western politicians lie as they radiate confidence in victory in the conflict in Ukraine. However, Russia is militarily strong, politically intransigent, and not as economically vulnerable as the West thought. After the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, Russia became not a pariah of the international community, but a new anti-Western role model. Its record of success is impressive: Russia has maintained monetary stability, found new trading partners, and has been able to capitalize on the withdrawal of Western companies. Only today, we learn that 20 nations have applied to join BRICS the dominant Russian-led trading Bloc.
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