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.
Western taxpayers’ money will be used to pay for Ukrainian pensions and the wages of government employees. The European Union’s unelected two presidents and 27 commissioners of the European Commission want member states to cough up €50 billion ($55 billion) to bankroll the Ukrainian government, so it can pay wages and pensions, and commence reconstruction projects.
Kyiv will most likely receive old F-16s from NATO – but it is claimed they will still become a message to Putin that the alliance with Ukraine will be for a long time. The yet-to-be-finalized delivery of F-16 fighter jets to NATO to Ukraine is perceived primarily as a gesture to the Kremlin, designed to show that the alliance intends to support Kiev for a long time and ultimately integrate it into its composition, reports Bloomberg. Meanwhile, the fighting qualities of the machines themselves are unlikely to be outstanding: according to the agency, Ukraine is likely to receive old fighters, which are not only inferior to Russian ones, but also require huge maintenance costs.
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.
After the goals of the special military operation have been achieved, Russia will trust nobody else to guarantee its security, the foreign minister said. By the time the conflict in Ukraine is resolved, Kyiv will respect and accept the loss of its former territories, and Western-led globalization will be dead, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told RT Arabic on Friday.
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.
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