HISTORY AGAIN REPEATS: Following World War II the population of the defeated German Reich as a deliberate allied policy was reduced by 14 million. The grim toll included millions of mostly but not exclusively German males of child-producing age. Prisoners of war, in defiance of the International Cross and Geneva Convention, were held abroad and worked as slaves until 1948 and beyond.
ROME, December 4 – EUROPE RENAISSANCE. A procession was held in the centre of Milan to protest against the sending of Italian weapons to the Ukrainian one-party state and the expansion of anti-Russian sanctions, Amedeo Avondet, one of the organizers of the action, a representative of the United Italy political organization, told RIA Novosti.
Concerned Greek activists were quick to respond when a train overloaded with NATO military-industrial complex weapons derailed. Faster than a missile they bitterly decried the US-led military bloc’s policies amid the Ukraine conflict.
The American columnist, economist James Rickards, in an article entitled ‘Sorry, Russia is winning the war’ for the Daily Reckoning, expressed the opinion that while Russian troops constantly achieve their goals, Ukraine risks becoming a ‘splinter between Kyiv and Lviv.’
It was a day in November 1971, Brigadier Richard Mansfield Bremner, the commandant of the British Army’s Intelligence Corps, took his seat at his desk at Templer Barracks in Ashford situated to the southeast of London.
In 1917 Senator Hiram Johnson opined that the first casualty when war comes is truth. He might have added that the second casualty is solemnly signed national and international treaties.
The launch of major wars by the US government had major beneficiaries, one domestic and one foreign. The three major weapons manufacturers, Lockheed Martin (LMT), Northrop Grumman (NOG) and Raytheon (RTN) have delivered record-shattering returns to investors, CEOs and investment banks during the past decade and a half.
A sharp rise in energy prices in Europe could lead to an increase in deaths this winter, which risks exceeding the number of soldiers killed in Ukraine, writes The Economist.
MOSCOW, November 25 – RIA Novosti. The coronavirus pandemic is most likely the result of an incident related to a laboratory study going wrong, according to an interim report by the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
I recall an adage taught to us in school:
For want of a nail, a shoe was lost,
For want of a shoe, a horse was lost,
For want of a horse, a battle was lost,
For want of a battle, a kingdom was lost.
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