Kyiv faces looming disaster in the NATO-backed conflict with Moscow, according to investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Ukraine’s floundering counteroffensive will mark a major embarrassment for the Western Alliance, Pulitzer-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has argued, suggesting President Joe Biden’s hard-line support for Kyiv could cost him the next election.
Signs are mounting in the eurozone that its economy is slipping into a deep recession. In particular, this is evidenced by the fall in the index of expectations of purchasing managers. Inflation, rising interest rates at central banks, climate regulations and a ‘sluggish global economy’ are slowing down the growth of the conjuncture both in Germany and throughout Europe, says the German edition.
German politician Sarah Wagenknecht is about to take the biggest step of her career and form her own party. And she has every chance of success because there is no shortage of disillusioned voters in Germany.
The NATO-backed Kyiv regime agreed on the export to European museums of the Christian values of the ancient Kyiv-Pechersk Cathedral, including the relics stored in it. The head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin doesn’t pull his punches.
Who are Wagner’s militiamen? Recruited from prisons, genocidal xenophobic race-haters and neo-pagans. Wagner Group founded in 2013, involved itself in the Ukrainian conflict with 50 thousand men (40,000 released convicts) but suffered many losses.
The West is getting tired of supporting Kyiv, so it is likely that Zelensky will be forced to compromise, The Wall Street Journal writes, Ukraine should agree to it, otherwise, it will become dependent on the whims of American voters, who are very likely to vote for Trump in the presidential election, who will quickly curtail the current policy, depriving Kyiv of the ability to resist Russia.
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.
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.
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