Tag Archives: Russia

UK and US special relationship

1997 to 2010 https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/215661/economics/economic-record-of-new-labour-1997-2010/ 1999, Enter Prince Andrew, as described in the book by Lownie: On the morning of 9 February 1999 a small group gathered at Teterboro Airport, just outside New York, ready to catch a Gulfstream jet to … Continue reading

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Deal maker, ball breaker

Trump suggests Ukraine may have to trade land for peace with Russia By Staff  The Associated Press Posted October 19, 2025 5:44 pm https://globalnews.ca/news/11485009/trump-ukraine-potential-land-exchange-russia-peace/ Remember back in July of this year: On July 20, 2025, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard … Continue reading

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The End Game? End for whom?

Last night, Russia bombarded Ukraine. Each night, since so called Peace Talks, Russia exceeds the intensity. Lev Parnas reports: No outcry from the Trump administration, and in Gaza, the same silence as the IDF move into Gaza City, where exhausted … Continue reading

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Being born after World War Two: friends and foes

On February 9, 1942 crowds gathered at New York City’s pier 88 to witness a spectacle. The largest ocean liner in the world was on fire. Fire fighting efforts successfully contained the fire after five and a half hours of effort, … Continue reading

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Alaska

From Christopher Armitage List of Actions of Trump administration since Jan 2025: See Christopher Armitage, Substack Trump and Putin chose to meet in Alaska, Aug 15th 2025 Looking up the history now as Trump sometimes made it sound like Putin … Continue reading

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It’s only men doing business

1986 Israel, Ehud Barak and technology: The upgrades to the drones were part of a larger technological push in the IDF, which in the late 1980s invested significant resources to acquire and develop precision ordnance—“smart bombs” that could hit their … Continue reading

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Gulag mentality

It is sad, but true. The Gulag horrors are being expanded in Russia. Innocent civilians from Ukraine are suffering there.  Out of our sight, out of reach from their suffering families. Pain radiates out from their locations and maybe you … Continue reading

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Survivors who lived in a large land mass

Since the US is now running a tarrif trade war, mostly targeting China, it has been said that Xi told his people “eat bitterness” and that was interpreted as “absorb the pain”. It is well known, throughout the 5000 year … Continue reading

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Globalisation and Gangsterism

The post-Second World War order began to crumble in the first half of the 1980s. Its dissolution followed no obvious pattern, occurring instead as a series of seemingly disparate events: the spectacular rise of the Japanese car industry; communist Hungary’s … Continue reading

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Follow the Oil Pipelines

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germans have never achieved parity with West German wealth generation. Disgruntled East Germans have raised the profile of right wing AfD political beliefs. Initially, the AfD distanced itself from far-right parties in … Continue reading

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