They made a big effort to stop the pandemic, yet the virus did not destroy any country. Yet if we allow our enemy to put a military airfield on a nearby island, within easy striking distance of us, then that could indeed potentially destroy Australia as we know it; just as the white man took Australia away from the wonderful, Indigenous people.
Elsewhere; anyone who doubts that the US is currently on a course to not only replace President Vladimir Putin but also to crash the Russian economy is delusional. In a truly unbelievable statement, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, said on Twitter, ‘This war will be won on the battlefield’. To achieve that, the US has given more than 13 billion dollars while the ‘European Peace Facility’, has pledged lethal weapons valued roughly at one billion Euros. Clearly this is now a proxy war between the wholesale prices in Germany rose at a record pace in March, jumping by 22.6 per cent year on year, so a rate of 25 per cent here, in two years time, seems quite reasonable, especially in view of continually increasing, global supply constraints.
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