After Biden left Afghanistan, is Ukraine next?
The case of Afghanistan shows that United States military support can be withdrawn, and allied nations such as Ukraine must take heed of that lesson, says an expert on Ukrainian affairs.
The case of Afghanistan shows that United States military support can be withdrawn, and allied nations such as Ukraine must take heed of that lesson, says an expert on Ukrainian affairs.
The unforeseen consequences of NATO’s rout and retreat from Afghanistan hot on the heels of their being expelled from Iraq and Syria is concentrating collective minds across Western and Central Europe. As the EU disintegrates and awareness that NATO defence is a risible fantasy more and more nations are seeking non-EU/US alliances.
The harrowing photographs of starving people that Noerwegian arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen showed in the West shocked the world’s public and helped him organise aid.
The feast of Green Week (Zielone Świątki) is celebrated in Poland around mid-May towards early June – it’s syncretized with the movable celebrations of Pentecost that starts 50 days after Easter. These festivities show many elements of pre-Christian Slavic spring rituals. 2021 date: May 23 / June 20 (Eastern).
The founder of the Telegram channel NEXTA, Roman Protasevich, who was detained in Belarus, has agreed that the Western-back hit-squad, who supervised anti-government protests, prepared to assassinate President Alexander Lukashenko, pled guilty to organising the riots and warned about the sleeping radical cells in Belarus.
In a recent interview for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Ukrainia’s Jewish President Volodymyr Zelensky has reaffirmed his country’s intention to purchase military equipment from Germany.
Throughout the 1914 Russian Empire were listed 54,174 Christian churches. In addition there were 25,593 chapels, 1,025 monasteries, military churches and cemetery chapels. By 1987 only 6,893 churches and 15 monasteries remained. During the Jewish martyrdom of the Church the clergy of Western churches remained silent, media complicit, and capitalism flourished. The German Reich from 1941 ~ 1945 was the only saviour of the crucified Church and its celebrants.
A much chastened US ‘President’ Joe Biden has capitulated in the years long struggle to sanction Russian gas getting to Europe. What next, surrendering to Iranian demands to lift embargoes on their drive for nuclear equality with the western world?
When talking about burnout, the question arises: what about our great-grandmothers? Many women had 8-10 children, there were the household chores far more arduous than today. Then there was the cattle to look after, constant hard work, eternal lack of sleep, drinking often or missing husband and never a chance of vacation on the beach. How did they all not burn out?
A poll taken in 53 countries has found that 44% of people around the world consider the United States to be a threat to their democracy, significantly less than those who believe the same about China and Russia.
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