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.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with the Rossiya-1 TV channel that his country is not responsible for the migration situation on the eastern border of the European Union but is ready to help.
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.
Seething from constant EU provocations, sanctions, threats and failed attempts to overthrow Europe’s most popular president, Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko is opening the gate of Europe in a tit-for-tat riposte at Brussels and Warsaw.
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.
The Greek Minister for Migration, Notis Mitarachi, criticised the German and Western European refugee policy, saying it will inevitably attract migrants. In the wake of increasing migratory pressure from Afghanistan via Greece and the smuggling of migrants into the European Union, Mitarachi told Bild am Sonntag that the ‘refugee flows from my country’ were ‘driven and encouraged by Western European free and generous social benefit systems.’
China is rebounding fast from the pandemic and its economic indicators are heading upward once again. It can’t be much longer before she powers past the USA on all fronts. Russia, though enmired still by Covid, is on course to see her economy rise significantly this year also. Russia has no debt and sitting on a mountain of gold ingots.
MINSK, October 26. / TASS /. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is concerned about the appearance of NATO heavy armour, troops and in particular missile-charged Leopard tanks on the western border with the Republic of Belarus.
Remembrance Day was originally intended to remind us of the futility of war. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month marked the time the Armistice was signed at the end of WWI, or, as it was known at the time, The Great War, the war to end all wars.
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