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'Meanwhile, Cmoc said Canada wants to ramp up its role in anti-corruption projects in Ukraine, such as through training judges and forensic auditors.
“They recognize this is a very important reform; they know that this is one of the stipulations for EU accession,” she said.
“We challenge Ukraine; we support Ukraine.” '
- Canada’s envoy to Ukraine says Canadian support will outl
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Archive '..inflationary forces have taken hold..'
'After all, inflationary forces have taken hold throughout the U.S. economy. It would now require a significant tightening of financial conditions to quash the unfolding inflationary cycle. Recent tempering of wage gains doesn’t negate the strongest compensation momentum in decades. Importantly, labor markets remain sufficiently tight to
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Archive 'Another element of Western strategy is identifying the key operational and institutional problems requiring support. The United States may need to accept that its doctrine for highly complex air-land warfare is not fully suited to Ukraine. This fact does not mean that combined-arms warfare is not effective. But NATO needs to lead a rapid reevaluation of its doctrine now to develop the tacti
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Archive '..The Ukrainians are fighting for their very existence against a power that is trying to deny their whole culture and history, who is abducting their children and who has committed countless atrocities against them. Normally the Ukrainians go to great lengths to assure everyone of the their gratitude for the aid they receive. (tbh, I think states that ask for this gratitude are being pathet
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Archive '..Europe would have to expand its manufacturing capacities both for ammunition and other nuts-and-bolts military needs and for the more advanced systems, such as long-range missiles, that it would have to supply on its own. .. European military officials need to quietly ask their Ukrainian counterparts what the latter would need that the former could supply if American assistance wanes, and
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Archive '..Moscow’s determination to obliterate Ukraine and its history far exceeds the collective intensity of Israel’s adversaries.
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If the transatlantic community consigns Kyiv to the Israel model, Ukraine will be left indefinitely in the gray zone of insecurity that has repeatedly catalyzed Putin’s hegemonic ambitions into violent actions. Ukraine would have to consider its options. Rega
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Archive 'Central bankers tend to more closely monitor a measure of core inflation that strips out volatile food and fuel prices to give a clearer sense of the underlying price trend. That measure also climbed, coming in at 4.2 percent after 4.1 percent in June.'
- 'Overall inflation climbed to 3.3 percent..' August 31, 2023
'(Bloomberg) -- Euro-area inflation stopped slow
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Archive '..The world must understand that Russia is unlikely to escalate the war if transport vessels under NATO or EU protection cross the Black Sea.'
'The number of threats with no clear pattern is reminiscent of the Russian disinformation strategy of maskirovka: the use of deception, intimidation, and disinformation to bewilder the enemy. In recent years, political observers have rec
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Archive 'Indecision and failure to push back against Putin over the past decades has led to this crisis. For years, Western leaders acquiesced to Putin’s threats, bluster and bullying. As many Russia-watchers have argued for years, Putin’s threats are hollow. The tired notion that the West should avoid humiliating Putin — as French President Emmanuel Macron has said — has worked to Putin’s benefit.
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Archive '..Providing more aid to Ukraine won’t significantly raise the risk of a wider war — but it could shorten the existing conflict.'
'Even more urgent than the F-16s, Breedlove told me, is the provision of ATACMS. Its rockets could be fired from the same launchers as the HIMARS system that the Ukrainians already possess. “It would take less than a day to incorporate into their figh
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Archive 'Dan Rice is correct. Get the M26 cluster munition for HIMARS into the counter-fire fight to destroy Russian artillery and sever the "land bridge" as HIMARS get in range. And the US has huge amounts of these available.'
- Ben Hodges (Source, August 26, 2023)
'But what Kyiv's military needs now are DPICMs for HIMARS in the form of M26 or M26A1 rockets, Rice s
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Archive 'BS excuse from "official". They haven't even asked Manufacturer to increase production.
"Pentagon continues to resist (UKR requests) because officials fear US doesn’t have enough ATACMS to supply UKR without undercutting its own readiness for any future conflict with China."'
- Ben Hodges (Source, August 28, 2023)
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(The Wall Street Journ
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Archive '..American officers appear to have unrealistic expectations of what a single counteroffensive operation can achieve. The U.S. should be focused on helping Ukraine fight the war the way it wants to fight, not chirping from the sidelines.
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..U.S. military experts appear to want the Ukrainians to hold on all other fronts and focus on a single thrust toward Melitopol.
Such advice is
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Archive '..In the meantime, everything focuses on those 7-10km advances from Robotyne and other frontline areas. As always, the fighting and the dying will be done by Ukrainians, but the West absolutely must ensure that there are sufficient rocket artillery systems, ammunition, and support to do the job.'
- Jan Kallberg, Ukraine — Victory Is Closer Than You Think, August 23, 2023
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Archive 'Its amazing that Mykola’s clear and logical analyses are rarely quoted in the major western press, whereas failed analysts who have consistently overrated Russian capabilities and damned Ukrainian ones, get mentioned all the time.'
'The one good story to come out of this desperate need to claim credit in Washington and London is that there is now a real awareness that the Ukrai
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Archive 'This reality has been opaque to most American military and civilian strategists. For over three decades, the common view of war, for them, has been that war is a rapid, decisive operation, as exemplified in the Panama Invasion (December 1989-January 1990) and the First Gulf War (August 1990-February 1991). Both operations were done quickly and decisively and with minimum casualties. These o
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Archive 'UPS workers ratified a massive five-year labor deal that includes big wage increases and other improvements to work rules and schedules, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said Tuesday.'
- UPS workers approve massive new labor deal with big raises, August 22, 2023
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UK’s Fast-Growing Wages Put Another Jumbo Rate Hike on the Cards, August 15, 2023
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Archive Something of a kerfuffle has broken out over the issue of China’s economic angst. On one side is Adam Posen, who in a Foreign Affairs article attributes China’s current predicament to the reluctance of private firms to invest, which he in turn attributes to their fears that an authoritarian regime like Xi’s will not respect their property rights and may expropriate them. On the other side, Adam T
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Archive '(Bloomberg) -- China’s state-owned property developers are warning of widespread losses, fueling concerns that the housing crisis is expanding from the private sector to companies with government backing.'
- China’s State Developers Warn of Losses as Crisis Spreads, August 18, 2023
'(Bloomberg) -- Only a week ago, Zhongzhi Enterprise Group Co. attracted little notice withi
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Archive 'But despite the fall in CPI, the figure is still historically high and needs to be seen in the context of stubborn core inflation, record wage inflation..'
- Record wage growth and sticky inflation could push Bank of England base rate beyond 5.5 per cent, August 16, 2023
'..to offset severe impact of inflation..'
'The United Auto Workers is seeking a 46% wage
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Archive 'It gets worse. Kirkpatrick volunteered that many of the reports involving “metallic orbs” are based “very much” on “multi-sensor observations.”
Multi-source, corroborative data, as described by Kirkpatrick, are among the most valuable to scientists. Yet not one member of the NASA panel followed up on Kirkpatrick’s second intriguing revelation of the morning. Indeed, the chair of the NASA
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Archive 'I can tell you anything I like..'
- 'Now U Do', August 3, 2023
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(Project C - Phase II 2022 - 2032) - Eye Opener, To Heal in The Electric Universe
'..LPPFusion's Focus Fusion will not be having issues competing for rare critical minerals..'
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
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Archive 'The Atlanta Fed compiles an index of core sticky consumer prices - goods or services for which the cost changes far more slowly. In June, the index showed a rise of 5.6%. This was up from last June's 5.4% rate..'
- ..A sticky inflation situation, August 10, 2023
Context (Banking Reform - English/Dutch) '..a truly stable financial and monetary system for the twenty-f
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Archive '..we refuse to declare that we want Ukraine to win and we stop short of providing what’s really needed…long-range precision weapons to make Crimea untenable for Russian forces and air power to support ground operations.'
- Ben Hodges (Source, August 10, 2023)
'Helping Ukraine 'as long as it takes' is the right approach. But helping Ukraine 'as quick as it ta
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Archive '..The Biden Administration has some internal tensions over this issue, even after the U.K. and France provided the cruise missiles. The Department of Defense (DoD) is the main source of resistance to this supply, and its senior analysts, in their best tradition, have convinced the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) to oppose the supply. Even when the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the Nati
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Archive 'The Ukrainians are now fighting a slow, patient war in which they are dismantling Russian artillery, ammunition depots, and command posts without weapons such as American ATACMS and German Taurus missiles that would make this sensible approach faster and more effective. They know far more about fighting Russians than anyone in any Western military knows, and they are experiencing a combat e
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Archive 'The colonel accused politicians of counting coins over lives and considering only the value of weapons provided rather than weighing it against the cost of storing, maintaining or destroying weapons approaching obsoletion.
“We received Nasams rockets produced in 1994. In 2024, they will reach their service life limit. The disposal of an Amraam AIM-120B missile is $26,000 to $28,000. It’s
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Archive '“Powerful lessons from Ukraine’s own past, as well as its neighbors’ history and present, have taught Ukrainians that Moscow can’t be trusted,” Andreas Umland, an analyst at the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, wrote in Politico.'
'In remarks since the invasion, has said more of the same, giving no indication that
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Archive 'The Biden administration has said it wants to deliver more weapons to Ukraine as quickly as possible..'
- U.S. expects to begin delivering Abrams tanks to Ukraine in September, July 27, 2023
'The Hollywood-tailored excitement of the Battles of Kyiv and Kharkiv may have unduly raised the bar for what Ukraine can accomplish in short order. Yet the Battle of Kherson, begun in
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Archive 'So-called core inflation rose 0.2% in June and was tracking at a 4.8% annual rate, much higher than the Fed would like.
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Inflation has inflicted much pain
Fed officials have pledged not to be complacent about inflation, repeatedly expressing concern over the impact on lower-income families and workers.
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“The reality is that current inflation rates still hold a negative im
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