The movement reflects anger with what protesters say is a dysfunctional ruling elite bent on austerity
and a debt pile equivalent to 114% of GDP.
Spending more creates inflation and takes from wages and pensions.
They have to tax the rich.
But they also have come to terms that they profited from their neocolonial empire. Africa is throwing out France. Those resources are missing. The level of prosperity has to go down to China or eastern Europe to be sustainable.
Their beliefs in an evil elite are often centred around the notion that man-made, government mandated laws and statutes are ways to oppress ‘the people’ and strip them of their individual rights and sovereignty.
The overall number of sovereign citizens has sharply increased over the last few years, with estimates by Dutch intelligence and security services putting that figure at several tens of thousands.
That’s many more than I would have assumed.
Imagine if the AfD did the same in Germany. It’s understandable why they do it but this sets a precedent that we most likely will regret in the future.
why wouldn’t they?
Because Ukraine seemed to shoot down most of the drones. I had assumed that they use Helicopters to follow them and shoot them down.
How could they fly over most of Ukraine undetected?
Check the quote in my other comment, the Brits benefitted from Brexit.
“Overall, U.K. goods will get somewhat better [treatment] than European Union products,” explained Ed Gresser, director for trade and global markets at the Progressive Policy Institute and a former policy adviser to the United States Trade Representative. “This also appears to be the case for the very top U.K. exports to the U.S. cars, medicines, oil — which bring in the most money, and for wines and liquors.”
So overall a worse deal for the EU.
Kenya, Nigeria, Ruanda, I thought they were the countries on the side of the West. Nigeria was supposed to bring back democracy to Mali and Niger. Isn’t it much more worrisome that those countries start supporting Russia than Russia convincing 5600 workers?
They are colonisers. They will become tourists when they travel for pleasure.
Confidence on a Dunning-Kruger chart is not a good thing.
Nato has to believe this to maintain course. What’s the evidence?
Even in the same article:
Former incident:
two Russian oil tankers collided in the Kerch Strait, leaking thousands of tons of heavy fuel oil into the Black Sea.
This incident:
contains at least 10 metric tons
The quote in the headline may be true but it can’t come from an expert who should also have seen the former incident.
‘I’ve never seen such an extensive film of pollution’
It is. We are preparing for that war. The surveillance and censorship laws are not in place yet. We can’t rely on everybody supporting the war if we start engaging in Ukraine right now. Once we would start positioning the armies, people would become aware that Russia will use nukes and they would chicken out.
Despite the use of jammers, the drones could not be fended off.
That’s much more worrysome than the drones themselves. Ukraine has working jammers but Germany doesn’t?
The article should answer why they cannot shoot down drones over their bases. There would be no threat for civilians.
If at all. Ten was a fraction.
How can the capabilities be measured to decide if Nato without USA is still a sufficiently strong deterrent? Somewhere some war enthusiasts must have done the calculations in public.
Apart from the nuclear weapons, does Russia stand a chance in a conventional war? I cannot imagine that their airforce survives contact with Nato.
three main questions that help determine whether information is trustworthy:
- Who is behind the claim? Is it a trustworthy source?
- What evidence is there to support the claim?
- What do other sources say about it?
Does that help people to identify if they are in an information bubble?
The EU has set an ambitious target, specifying that at least 80 % of the adult population should be digitally literate by 2030.
Being digitally literate is defined as citizens being aware that online information contains misinformation and disinformation,
Finland has ranked number one in the European Media Literacy Index for several years in a row.
and almost a third of high school students have trouble judging the reliability of texts
It would be ambitious if 80% of adults should be able to judge the reliability. Being aware of disinformation sounds useful but it is almost useless.
Of course she does. Why again should Europeans die fighting Russia if we establish an Oligarchy in Europe anyway? At least pretend to care about rights until Russia is beaten.