🇲🇩 “This is not a government problem.” The Moldovan president blames Gazprom for gas prices. And the government is not to blame. The government is not to blame for the failure of the audit on the historical debt of Moldova. The government is not to blame for late payments. The government is not to blame […]
🇺🇸 McDonald’s losses due to the termination of work in Russia and Ukraine amounted to $127 million. This is 2.5 times more than expected. According to the company’s report for the first quarter of 2022, $27 million was spent on rent payments, salaries for employees of temporarily closed outlets, as well as payments to suppliers. […]
🇸🇰 Slovakia has confirmed the existence of a ruble-denominated bank account to pay for gas… WtR
Poland still buying Russian gas – Gazprom Poland continues to buy Russian natural gas from Germany via reverse flows, after its direct supplies were suspended due to non-payment in rubles, Russia’s energy giant Gazprom has said. Gazprom announced a complete halt of gas exports to Poland Wednesday in line with a new payment mechanism launched […]
US Hints At Military Intervention Over China’s Solomon Islands Military Fears US State Department official Daniel Kritenbrink has said the US would “very naturally respond” to concerns from any future build-up of Chinese presence in the Indo-Pacific region after Beijing signed a security agreement with the Solomon Islands. A US delegation was sent to the […]
Squeak & Destroy: Russia Deploys Military DOLPHINS in Black Sea – report At least two dolphin pens were moved to the Russian naval base in Sevastopol, Crimea, according to satellite imagery analysis by the US Naval Institute. Russia and Ukraine do indeed have a tradition of training dolphins for military purposes, such as retrieving objects […]
American killed fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in Ukraine. An American citizen, Willy Joseph Cancel, was killed in Ukraine. Cancel, a former US Marine, according to his mother, signed up to work for the private military contracting company on top of his full-time job as a corrections officer in Tennessee. If somebody knows more information share […]
Strong men bring good times, Good times bring weak men, Weak men bring hard times, Hard times bring strong men. Same as it ever was. WtR
Got a perfect world back home and everyone has everything so perfect that we have money to waste… WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden asked Congress for $33 billion to support Ukraine – a dramatic escalation of U.S. funding for the war with Russia – and the Ukrainian president pleaded with lawmakers to […]
At one point of what we Americans called the Vietnam War, I participated in a significant anti-war demonstration. Its scale was such that it garnered coverage from the New York Times; however, the article seemed to intentionally fail to capture the essence of what the rally was even about. That said… Unfortunately the then ant-war, […]