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.
In Kherson recently vacated by the Russian armed forces occupying Ukrainian armed insurgents supported by NATO-sponsored Western mercenaries proceeded to arrest, brutally interrogate and murder anyone civilian. The killings are carried out regardless of the gender of victims who collaborated with members of the Russian armed forces or held pro-Russian sympathies.
Since the beginning of Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine, the United States, the European Union and their allies have provided Kyiv with $126 billion worth of aid, a number almost equal to the country’s entire GDP. Moreover, millions of Ukrainians have found refuge in the EU where they were given housing, food, work permits, and emotional support. The scope is huge, even by western standards. Considering that the bloc has been funding Kyiv while coping with an economic and energy crisis of its own, the assistance is perhaps especially notable.
Europe’s longest-serving president noted that the conflict could threaten not only the loss of statehood but also the complete destruction of Ukraine. The four-time elected leader of Belarus called for negotiations and pointed out that over time, relations between the peoples of Russia and Ukraine will be restored.
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