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Breaking Up the Bad. Part II
Continued. Read Part I hereToo many countries of South America, Asia and Africa continue to be the “clients” of that nation. They carry on with trade and nourish political connections for their own reasons. Turkey is making billions of dollars …
Breaking Up the Bad. Part I
What do we, people of the Western world, do when the war in Ukraine is over? It’s not an easy matter to tackle. We were contemplating to write about this subject for some time. The war is still very much …
German Tank
Latest news out of Germany makes us feel very angry. The leadership of that country is playing every game to preclude heavy weaponry from being delivered where is needed the most – Ukraine. They pledged to supply the armaments that …
A Divided Europe
Europe is one, and yet it is divided in more ways than we care to count. The countries of the European Union share common currency, common trade space that implies free flow of goods and services as well as commons …
The Dirty Business of War. Part III
Continued. Read Part I here and Part II hereThere comes, slowly but surely, this late understanding that Putin’s Russia must be dismantled. Its injurious policies cannot go on. And as long as Vladimir Putin is in power, the world is …
The Dirty Business of War. Part II
Continued. Read Part I hereRussia started this war but never officially called it “war”, it is only a “special operation”. It is for political and financial reasons it seems. If you are a soldier and you are killed or maimed …
The Dirty Business of War. Part I
What we describe below was mostly collected online. Mind you, we have no military service experience, see things through layman’s eyes and have no more sources of information than anyone else. It’s all out there, on the Internet and TV. …
The Long Arm of Corruption
As Russia’s war against Ukraine rages on, we, in the Western world, begin to see things that were hidden in plain view Corruption kills. The Russian Federation had been corrupted to the core and that lead to war. War leads …
I Accuse
We are not the first to say this. French writer Emil Zola used the phrase in a famous newspaper defense of a wrongfully accused person in the bygone year of 1898. It is now our turn. The world had been …
Killing Two Birds with One Stone. Putin vs. Ukraine, January 2022
We are witnessing unprecedented build-up of Russian forces along the borders of Ukraine these days. It is our prediction that they will imminently attack that country. Why do we think so? Because the troop build-up had not stopped for one …

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