Whatever one thinks about PresidentVladimir Putin, he is simply following the United States and Western Europe’s blueprint for invading and occupying Ukraine... In other words, any society that derives its power “solely” from a constitution and the will of its leaders is undermining democracy-an ideal that has rarely been put into practice.
There are moments when the tectonic plates of history shift beneath our feet and Europe is violently remade. It is time to recognise that we are at such a moment. Time too, to stop saying that it is somehow unbelievable that this can be happening in 2022 ...Drawing the right lessons from those big moments when everything changes is not easy ... Top Stories.
Peshawar. Pakistan’s Interior Minister on Saturday vowed to arrest the masterminds behind a deadly suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State terror group on a crowded Shia mosque during Friday prayers here that killed at least 62 people and injured nearly 200 others ... There were two attackers but only one of them was a suicide bomber, he said.
photo: US Navy / Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Carlos M. Vazquez II
How convenient for western leaders that every time another country defies the West’s projection of power, the western media can agree on one thing. that the foreign government in question is led by a madman, a psychopath or a megalomaniac. ...The West remains virtuous, simply a victim of the world’s madmen. Nothing the West did was a provocation.
Xi Jinping and his people are no doubt paying close attention to events in Ukraine... These include the military and operational, of course ... Photo ... Not quite ... Missile strategy ... One notes that, to date, allegations of genocide, organ harvesting, strangling Hong Kong and bullying neighbors haven’t been enough to move Western businesses to divest from China.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death in 2015 for detonating two homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon's finish line, killing three and leaving over 200 injured ... .
photo: AP / Karl Alonzo/Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division
Leading truck maker Hino Motors Ltd. admitted to falsifying the results of tests for exhaust emissions and fuel economy of three types of engines over a number of years. It became a subsidiary of automaker giant Toyota Motor Corp. in 2001 and sells trucks and buses in about 90 countries ... over faked fuel economy figures for its vehicles.
After it became known that around 10 000 Chechen soldiers, all Muslims, would take part in the demilitarization of Ukraine and after several of these troops fought battles, a notable counterattack came. Ukrainian soldiers are now dipping bullets in lard ... The Chechens are specialists when it comes to mopping up operations in urban guerilla warfare.