Adding up the real costs of the Ukraine crisis: Is the worst yet to come?
Russia's war on Ukraine has led to pain across the world. Food and fuel prices continue to rise, including in Singapore. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Russia's war on Ukraine has led to pain across the world. Food and fuel prices continue to rise, including in Singapore. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The Hungarian PM’s stance on Russia’s invasion appears to have benefitted him domestically but has angered EU partners.
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. — Hunter S. Thompson, "September," Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72, p. 413. Imagine, just how programmed
I do not wish the worse for America. Hopefully it will become a good humble citizen of this planet. Yet so far, we haven’t seen any of this — what some people might call magical — transformation. Who has been the worse president? Trump or Biden? So far on international relations and on civil duties, Trump is behind by a clown nose.
For more than 20 years, the civilian casualties of the Global War on Terror have, at best, been nameless, faceless victims to most Americans. They’ve been “30 pine nut farm workers” killed in a 2019 drone strike in Afghanistan or “a woman and child” slain in a similar attack a year earlier in Somalia.