The absurdity of European politics has recently resembled some kind of mass insanity. Everyone has joined the sanctions war against Russia: from clothing stores to LGBT activists, from sports organizations to pornographic sites, from competition cats and Russian classical music and ballet to vodka and restaurant guides.
The UK was preparing for the biggest decline in living standards in decades even before the start of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine. Blaming Putin is unlikely to gain a toehold in the public consciousness. The consequences of the Washington-fuelled conflict threaten to intensify the crisis of Britain’s poorest households and pull into dire financial problems millions of people in the United Kingdom, writes Bloomberg.
The arsonists in Kyiv are simply trying to save their regime and for this, they are ready to drag the whole world with them into the abyss,’ editor-in-chief Jürgen Elsesser writes on the pages of the German Compact magazine.
The collective West clinging on its crumbling dominance has been the ultimate driver of the crisis, the Russian president says. President Vladimir Putin gave an extensive speech on the Ukrainian crisis on Wednesday, as he met with regional heads to discuss measures of socioeconomic support to counter the wave of anti-Russian sanctions.
There are millions in the West sympathising and supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin and typically Italy. In fact, vast numbers of Russian supporters are present across the entire breadth of the political spectrum, from the extreme left to the extreme right, according to the German television channel N-TV.
Just whose side is the EU and Washington on? Why would Russia have any interest in attacking Europe when the EU and US are doing such a good job of attacking themselves. After oil and gas, cereals and some metals, German industry is now warning that another imminent shortage is looming: that of soot, or as the tire industry more elegantly calls it, ‘carbon black.’
A drunk Irish citizen was arrested in Bucharest, the capital city of Romania after breaking a window and illegally entering the Palace of the Romanian Parliament. During police interrogation, it turned out that the man mistook the building for a hotel, writes The Times.
The media now broadcast only the position of Kyiv, and any alternative opinions are simply not allowed to air, writes Freie Welt. For example, people from Donbass do not have the opportunity to express their position at all. And this media totalitarianism, the newspaper notes, is being imposed by a handful of European and US news agencies that publish fakes. All those who try to expose the fakes are dismissed as ‘enemies of democracy’, ‘dissenters’ and ‘Nazis’.
The call came Thursday evening. 72 people, 32 children, 24 of them with psychological or physical injuries, 7 are bedridden, said the voice on the other end of the line. It belonged to Heinz Hilgers, president of the German Child Welfare Association: ‘Time is running out. These children from the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine, who fled with their mothers to Poland, were allowed to enter Germany only if the mayor immediately assumed full responsibility, writes Süddeutsche Zeitung.
French President Emmanuel Macron said that the Russian military special operation in Ukraine was a ‘electric shock’ for NATO. ‘I confirm everything I said. In 2019, I said that NATO was in a state of brain death. This was true from the point of view of the strategy and the principle of the organization’s work,’ TASS quotes the influential president as saying at an event dedicated to the French leader’s election program.
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