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This navy will be DEI sunk and useless well before WW3
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Disbelief as undermanned Royal Navy spends £2.4million on 'diversity and inclusion team' - as 'furious' Defence Secretary Grant Shapps wages war on 'woke' equality policies in the military
Defence minister admits seven-figure sum has been spent on inclusion staff
Ex-forces minister urges Grant Shapps to spend on 'weaponry, not wokery'
EXCLUSIVE: Mr Shapps is waging war on what he sees as ' woke ' and wasteful diversity pushes, including internal jobs inviting serving sailors to be redeployed as diversity champions.
Facing setbacks up and down the front and regular Russian attacks targeting its military and energy infrastructure, Ukraine’s top brass hopes to find respite with a long-range drone strike capability. Sputnik asked drone warfare experts about the dangers posed by Kiev’s new strategy, and what...
The Western bloc has a long record of promises to Russia made and broken, from a commitment not to expand east, to a pledge to support the 2015 Minsk peace deal to end the Ukrainian crisis. Now, a new set of records reveals that NATO vowed not to meddle in Russia’s backyard – a commitment broken...
Russian authorities have claimed Ukraine have launched a drone strike on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant today, including a strike on the dome of the plant's sixth power unit that caused no damage.
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REVEALED: Trump has 'secret plan' to end the Ukraine-Russia war by getting Kyiv to give up land to Putin as former president boasts he could negotiate a peace deal 24-hours after being elected
Donald Trump has repeatedly said he could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours
His plan includes getting Ukraine to give up land to Russia to end the conflict
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will not surrender territory
Peter Pellegrini, an ally of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, is projected to win the country's presidential contest Saturday according to official vote tallies.
Recent startling revelations about organized crime in the European Union (EU) spotlights the extensive use of real estate for money laundering purposes by more than a third of the most criminal groups in the union.
Anna Dolgareva, a warrior poetess, is singing her comrades-in-arms, her land and common Donbass people, who have been suffering from the ten-year long war started by the Kiev regime in 2014.
Su-34 aircraft crews carried out a strike on Ukrainian command posts near South Donetsk using FAB-500 glide bombs, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
RFE/RL's Ukraine Live Briefing gives you the latest developments on Russia's ongoing invasion, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians. The Live Briefing presents the latest developments and analysis, updated throughout the day.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi has voiced concern about the latest drone attack on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.
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Three unarmed Ukrainian POWs 'are executed with machineguns by Putin's troops' in shocking footage: Kyiv reports slaughter to UN in latest evidence of atrocities carried out by Russia
Kyiv's human rights commissioner said footage should be seen in UN tribunal
Footage, which is too graphic for MailOnline to share, is alleged to show Russian servicemen in Krynky shooting dead unarmed, immobile soldiers with what appear to be assault rifles.
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Nuclear disaster risk at Ukrainian power station: International atomic watchdog says attack on Zaporizhzhia plant at the weekend could spark 'major' radiation accident
Russia took control of the plant in 2022 after their full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Russia fired five missiles on Zaporizhzhia on Friday, which killed at least four
Maria Zakharova urged world leaders to condemn the act of 'nuclear terrorism'
Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate spokesman Andriy Yusov accused Russia of endangering the plant and the civilian population by carrying out attacks on a nuclear facility.
The problem with financing wars and military expenditure which is not productive to humanity, is eventually it weakens any country that is fighting wars. Even if those wars are simply proxy wars.
US wasted trillions in Iraq invasion. One has to ask if all that expenditure and investment rebuilding Iraq was worth the effort? Wars for the US becoming dubious expenditures with no certainty of booty to compensate.
Senators will begin to ask. They may well be financed by lobby groups but ultimately, if majority of US middle incomes start feeling the pinch they will vote and look elsewhere for solutions.
The dollar is pretty useless as a safe haven. Whenever I hear that I laugh at the stupidity of the term. If the US doesn't change direction and in another 20 years it'll either start a big war which no side can win or suffer by a thousand budget defecits until it becomes like Argentina, ready to relinquish it's currency and adopt another?
One observer warns of the power of the United States’ permanent security bureaucracy, which he claims will dictate the country’s stance toward Russia regardless of who is elected in November.