In 2014, armed men without insignia took control of the peninsula, hoisted the Russian flag and organised a fake referendum, where ‘95.5% of the voters’ would choose annexation.
Many opponents were arrested, beaten and subjected to violence: ‘They were tortured, degraded, beaten, forced to sing the Russian anthem with extinguished cigarettes on their bodies’ …
Trump repeats Obama’s mistake: on Ukraine he seeks an impossible deal, the Kremlin does not want it
“North Korea does not want a single soldier to return alive from the battlefield. The leadership will think that the returning soldiers are not useful for maintaining the regime as they might tell others the truth about what they experienced, which would raise negativity about the regime’
Pope Francis: “There is a very consistent scientific consensus that we are in the presence of a worrying warming of the climate system. Climate change, with Covid- 19 and wars, has contributed to the inflationary drive suffered especially by the poorest
In 2022 it seemed that many companies wanted to leave Russia. Two years later it seems that Russia, as with wheat, is winning the economic war with the West
With a few rare exceptions, as of August 2024, almost every African state had a contract to supply Russian arms. And taking aid away from moderate states like Kenya or that are in a terrible civil war like Sudan not only does not honour Trump because it will cause so many people to die and create misery and Islamic extremism
Marketplaces are becoming more and more popular. They are a key hub for non-food sales. Department stores are in disarray. For Tik Tok, the issue of security should not be underestimated: the app has been used to try to destabilise the current government
Putin’s next targets are Moldova – whose history is little known but significant – and, in particular, Romania
Tariffs are a defensive weapon, a boomerang that will only cause inflation, especially in the US. And a country that does not know how to interface with others, except by force, is a weak country
“Does NATO make sense?” should not be posed to the Italian extreme left or extreme right, who are structurally ‘No NATO’, but to those who are close to the Russian border. And perhaps had to face the Red Army. To the citizens of Warsaw or Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, for example
Europeans need to reduce their dangerous dependence on an adversary or even enemy America. The only ones who have fully understood, long ago, what is really going on are the states bordering the former Soviet empire, such as Finland or the Baltic states
Right-wing journalists’ comments on the Oval Office attack: Trump looks like Hitler, Brezhnev or Don Vito Corleone. And the US economy shows the first signs of slowing down. Meanwhile, however, Donald Trump brutally freezes military aid to Ukraine to bring Volodymyr Zelensky to a ceasefire
