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(Choose The Young) - 'Turkey has been waiting at the gate of the European Union for over 50 years now.' - 1 year ago
'..Many now consider themselves deists—people who believe in a divine being but don’t adhere to the tenets of Islam..' '..With half of the country’s population below the age of 32 .. religious schools are underperforming and have little appeal among Turkish youth. A recent poll found that religiosity is much lower in the younger generation, with far fewer describing themselves aby archive - Archive
(June, 2023)(UK rejoining EU Horizon) - Britons who want to rejoin EU at highest levels since 2016, survey finds - 1 year ago
'Prof Carsten Welsch, a physicist at the University of Liverpool who lost leadership of a £2.6m research project on a novel plasma generator that could be used in cancer treatment when the UK lost membership, said it would be “absolutely fantastic news” to return to Horizon Europe. “It would be a gigantic relief. It would mean that the politicians would have thankfully listened to the sciby archive - Archive
Ukraine Needs a Roadmap to NATO Membership ASAP - 1 year ago
'In Vilnius, the alliance should launch a roadmap that will lead clearly to Ukraine’s membership in NATO at the earliest achievable date. As with Finland and Sweden, the process can bypass the Membership Action Plan in light of the close and ongoing interactions between NATO and Ukraine..' Opinion | Ukraine Needs a Roadmap to NATO Membership ASAP Any further delay will only inviteby archive - Archive
(Ukraine needs ATACMs) - '..if they had ATACMS and Gray Eagle Drones..' - 1 year ago
'Imagine how much more damage to Russian logistics Ukraine could do if they had ATACMS and Gray Eagle Drones...no Russian ammunition storage site anywhere inside Ukraine would be safe. Russian bases and the Black Sea Fleet would not be safe. @SecDef Sir, what are we waiting for?' - Ben Hodges (Source, July 5, 2023) Context (Ukraine needs ATACMs) - Ukraine's Top Generaby archive - Archive
German industry urges reduced dependency after China export controls - 1 year ago
'German industry on Tuesday warned that Europe must become more self-reliant in the hunt for raw materials .. The BDI's Niedermark said that agreement to recycle and process raw materials sent an important signal but called for a similar push to establish domestic mining in Europe.' - German industry urges reduced dependency after China export controls, July 4, 2023 Conteby archive - Archive
(Ukraine needs ATACMs) - Ukraine's Top General Urges More Arms for Offensive - 1 year ago
'..Army Tactical Missile System (ATACM) .. allow Ukraine to strike at Russian targets behind the lines. These systems, in particular, can hit Russian positions in their supply lines all the way down into the Crimean Peninsula, a crucial aspect to the Ukrainian offensive.' - A muddled U.S. strategy is making it harder for Kyiv to win, June 14, 2023 'Ukraine's counteroffby archive - Archive
There’s No Such Thing as a Great Power, How a Dated Concept Distorts Geopolitics - 1 year ago
'More useful than the concept of a great power is that of a full-spectrum power, which takes into account the diverse factors that create military might, not just its outward manifestation in weapons. Few countries have ever achieved all the fundamentals on which superior military power is built and sustained; most that have been described as great powers were in fact midranking Potemkin staby archive - Archive
(Global Stagflation) - 'German inflation surges more than expected to 6.8% .. food inflation .. 13.7 per cent.' - 1 year ago
'..Another critical characteristic of the earlier inflation era was frequent temporary reversals in inflation, only to be followed by new peaks..' - (Global Stagflation)(Inflation out of control) - Inflationary Psychology Has Set In. Dislodging It Won’t Be Easy. ' “The real danger comes from encouraging or inadvertently tolerating rising inflation and its close cousin of eby archive - Archive
The U.S. needs to launch a diplomatic surge on Ukraine - Michael McFaul - 1 year ago
'..The time to gear up for this enormous mission is not after the war ends, but now..' 'The United States needs to take a more active part in this diplomatic game. An American special envoy should not only shadow Li’s steps in Europe to press U.S. positions, but also travel to countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to explain why Russian President Vladimirby archive - Archive
June 24, 2023: The Russian Civil War has officially started - 1 year ago
'The fight is now on. This is now a civil war.' - Michael McFaul (Source, June 24, 2023) 'June 24, 2023: The Russian Civil War has officially started.' - Tendar (Source, June 24, 2023) Context (WARNING TO RUSSIA) - '..if Russia or Belarus .. explodes a nuclear device in Ukraine .. expect a massive response from NATO..'by archive - Archive
(WARNING TO RUSSIA) - '..if Russia or Belarus .. explodes a nuclear device [or cause a nuclear disaster] in Ukraine .. expect a massive response from NATO..' - 1 year ago
'..if Russia or Belarus .. explodes a nuclear device in Ukraine .. will considered an attack on NATO itself .. you can expect a massive response from NATO, and you will be at war with NATO.' - Lindsey Graham (Source, June 22, 2023, minute 1:09 - 3:24) 'The Russian military, they will be destroyed, they will be eviscerated if they use tactical nuclear weapons or if they dby archive - Archive
(Global Stagflation) - '..UK Is ‘Stagflationary Sick Man of Europe’ - '..inflation remains persistent.' - 'Bundesbank lessons .. the 1970s .. inflation.' - 1 year ago
'..everyone should take heed of what the Bundesbank, that bastion of orthodoxy, said in its 1973 annual report after the Opec oil shock. After “a year of hard struggle for more price stability”, it said the success of each country depended on “whether it is made easier or more difficult to pass on the higher prices ”. Faced with a potential wage price spiral or, as the Bundesbank put it,by archive - Archive
(WARNING) - '..Russia is considering a scenario of a terrorist attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.' - Zelenskyy - 1 year ago
'We have just had a report from our intelligence and the Security Service of Ukraine. Intelligence has received information that Russia is considering a scenario of a terrorist attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. A terrorist attack with radiation leakage. They have prepared everything for this. Unfortunately, I have repeatedly had to remind that radiation has no state bordersby archive - Archive
'..the expectation of U.S. and European officials should be that Russia will remain an autocracy even after Putin departs..' - 1 year ago
'Ultimately, however, Washington and its allies can do little to directly shape Russia’s political trajectory. A better Russia can be produced only by a clear and stark Ukrainian victory .. Such a resounding defeat is also required to enable Russians to shed their imperialist ambitions and to teach the country’s future elites a valuable lesson about the limits of military power. Support forby archive - Archive
(Healing)(Moral Injury) - '..left thousands of Afghanistan veterans to face an old but largely forgotten mental health condition: moral injury..' - 1 year ago
'..Some research also suggests that moral injury may be present in up to 90 percent of post-traumatic stress cases, and acts as an obstacle to successful treatment. .. American society and its government, including senior military officers, should take concrete steps to mitigate the resulting moral injury. This means providing veterans with the resources, the honesty, and the opportuniby archive - Archive
EU Parliament calls on NATO to invite Ukraine to join the alliance - 1 year ago
'..Ukraine's integration into NATO and the EU will strengthen regional and global security.' 'The European Parliament adopted a resolution (425 votes for, 38 against and 42 abstentions) calling on NATO allies to invite Ukraine to join the alliance. "The accession process will begin after the end of the war and finalized as soon as possible." In addition,by archive - Archive
A muddled U.S. strategy is making it harder for Kyiv to win - 1 year ago
'Thankfully, Ukrainian bravery and Russian missteps mean that the war remains winnable for Kyiv. The United States just needs the will and strategy to embrace that victory.' '..As any war college student can rattle off, good strategy comes down to the alignment of ends, ways, and means. Put another way, good strategy involves clearly defining your objectives (ends), developing pby archive - Archive
'..Ukrainian Armed Forces are approaching Tokmak .. 63km north of Melitopol..' - 1 year ago
'Russian military sources claim Ukrainian Armed Forces are approaching Tokmak, last major settlement 63km north of Melitopol, and Volnovakha, last major settlement 65km north of Mariupol. Squeeze of Berdyansk on the coast expected and Russian units will be encircled on both sides.' - Igor Sushko (Source, June 13, 2023) Context 'Fall of Melitopol would trap Russians..&by archive - Archive
(Transmedium vehicles) '..NASA .. Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick .. stated .. military personnel are observing “metallic orbs” “all over the world.”' - 1 year ago
'At a historic NASA briefing on UFOs — “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP) in government parlance — a key Defense Department official made a striking disclosure. Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of a new UAP analysis office, stated that U.S. military personnel are observing “metallic orbs” “all over the world.” According to Kirkpatrick, spherical objects account for the largest proportby archive - Archive
(Transmedium - Novel living systems) - 'NASA .. investigating unexplained anomalous phenomena .. stigma .. and harassment .. hindering its work.' - 1 year ago
' “Harassment only leads to further stigmatization of the UAP field, significantly hindering the scientific progress and discouraging others to study this important subject matter,” Nasa’s science chief, Nicola Fox, said in a public meeting on 31 May.' 'The publication of Grusch and Grey’s claims comes after a panel that the US space agency Nasa charged with investigating unexplby archive - Archive
'If the West provides everything the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) need, especially long-range precision weapons..' - 1 year ago
'..Ukraine urgently needed more U.S.-made Patriot missile-defense systems to protect citizens from aerial bombardments and to shield front-line troops. Zelensky acknowledged Russian air superiority on the front lines and said a lack of protection from Russian air power means “a large number of soldiers will die” in the counteroffensive. .. Ukraine now has at least two Patriot batteby archive - Archive
(Global Stagflation)(2023) - 'The United States is, today, an underlying 4.5-5% inflation country..' - 1 year ago
'“The United States is, today, an underlying 4.5-5% inflation country,” Summers said, speaking via video link at the start of the two-day Caixin Asia New Vision Forum in Singapore.' - US Economy Remains ‘Very, Very Hot,’ Larry Summers Says, June 12, 2023 '..Canada .. the economy is running too hot.' - Bank of Canada Upends Markets by Boosting Policy Rate to 4.75%, Jby archive - Archive
'..under Trump, the United States came to resemble Russia..' - 1 year ago
'Trump took at face value rumors that Putin was the richest man in the world and told close associates that he admired Putin for his presumed wealth and for the way he ran Russia as if it were his own private company. As Trump freely admitted, he wanted to do the same thing. He saw the United States as an extension of his other private enterprises: the Trump Organization, but with the world’by archive - Archive
'..now is the time for NATO to start strengthening itself, and bringing in Ukraine is essential..' - 1 year ago
'The new European security order should be based on Ukraine’s security, not Russia’s. This will require Ukraine to join NATO and the EU.' - Why Ukraine has won the right to join NATO, April 4, 2022 '..in Vilnius, NATO should at least move beyond vague promises about Ukraine’s future and get down to the specifics of helping Kyiv join the organization. It is time for Westernby archive - Archive
'..support Ukraine for as long as it takes..' - '..Ukraine .. to fight the war to a victory that it wants..' - 'Kasparov says after the war, there needs to be justice..' - 1 year ago
'..support Ukraine for as long as it takes in the face of Russia’s illegal war of aggression..' - G7 Hiroshima Leaders’ Communiqué, May 20, 2023 '..the F-16 decision is so important. It militarily gives Ukraine a tool that it desperately needs to fight the war to a victory that it wants, and it is an important sign that Ukraine is heading to NATO membership when the war isby archive - Archive
(Global Stagflation) - 'Europe .. food price caps .. the worst cost of living crisis for a generation.' - 'US inflation Set to Stay Firm..' - 1 year ago
'The Fed’s preferred price metrics on Friday are projected to show inflation remained elevated in April, running more than double the central bank’s goal..' - US Inflation Set to Stay Firm.., May 20, 2023 'Inflation later roared back, forcing the hand of Paul Volcker, who took over at the Fed in 1979, Richardson said. Volcker brought double-digit inflation to heel — but onlby archive - Archive
(2023) - The Sodium-Ion Battery Is Coming To Production Cars This Year - 'Sodium is an attractive alternative to lithium..' - 1 year ago
'The fact that there is so much soda ash available in the US is probably the primary reason to pursue sodium-ion technology..' 'The United States accounts for over 90% of the world’s readily mined reserves for soda ash. According to the New York Times, beneath the southwestern Wyoming desert there is a vast deposit of soda ash that was formed 50 million years ago. For centuries,by archive - Archive
It’s Not Enough for Ukraine to Win. Russia Has to Lose. - 1 year ago
'Russian defeat does not require a march on Moscow (rarely a good idea in the past), and it does not require a Russia that is defenseless and devastated (impossible without World War III). Rather, it will be achieved inside the heads of Russia’s leaders and population. Russia must be convinced that the military instrument, and its deployment in large-scale war, will inevitably fail, and it mby archive - Archive
F-16 fighter jets: US lets allies give jets to Ukraine - 1 year ago
'US troops will also train Kyiv's pilots to use the jets, Mr Sullivan said.' 'The US says it will allow its Western allies to supply Ukraine with advanced fighter jets, including American-made F-16s, in a major boost for Kyiv. National security adviser Jake Sullivan said President Joe Biden "informed his G7 counterparts" of the decision at the bloc's summiby archive - Archive
US signals to allies it won’t block their export of F-16 jets to Ukraine - 1 year ago
'US lawmakers and congressional staffers have joined in the F-16 lobbying campaign, urging the administration to provide the jets so that Ukraine can establish control over its skies.' '(CNN) - The Biden administration has signaled to European allies in recent weeks that the US would allow them to export F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, sources familiar with the discussions said, aby archive - Archive