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Chiara Bonaiuti: Public investment has been skewed towards the military in the last decade when a much wider array of threats are in evidence.

Sahra Wagenknecht 23.9.2023 (https://is.gd/jHbdjQ)

71% of the respondents said NATO and the EU only follow their own interests and simply use Ukraine for their own purposes.

Glenn Greenwald's System Update on "Toria"

I en artikel på webbtidningen Meer anklagar Michael von der Schulenburg, f.d. vice generalsekreterare i FN, EU för att driva en ännu mer krigsaktivistisk politik än USA. USA håller ibland tillbaka, men det gör inte EU. Europa kommer att få betala dyrt för den politiken, säger Schulenburg. Artikeln i sin helhet: Kommer kriget i Ukraina… (översatt från https://www.meer.com/en/74782-will-the-ukraine-war-be-the-undoing-for-the-european-union)

"Pakistan sörjer minst 300 personer som sägs ha omkommit på Medelhavet förra veckan. Det är fortsatt svårt att säga exakt hur många som drunknade när en överfylld migrantbåt sjönk utanför Grekland." Se även https://www.collettiva.it/copertine/internazionale/2023/06/16/podcast/strage-migranti-mai-fatalita-3158675/ : i moltiplicano le testimonianze e i video che confermerebbero l'ipotesi di un colpevole ritardo degli interventi della Guardia costiera greca durante l'affondamento del barcone con a bordo circa 750 migranti al largo delle coste del Peloponneso lo scorso 13 giugno. "Tämän vuoden aikana noin 72 000 pakolaista ja siirtolaista on YK:n tilaston mukaan tullut Välimeren maihin Italiaan, Espanjaan, Kreikkaan, Maltalle ja Kyprokselle." (HS 14.6.: "Kymmeniä siirtolaisia hukkui matkalla Libyasta Italiaan Kreikka on julistanut kolmen päivän suruajan onnettomuuden vuoksi."

(Own report) -Germany and France are seeking greater “European sovereignty” and aim to “strengthen the EU as a geopolitical actor,” according to a Franco-German declaration published yesterday in Paris on the occasion of the ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Élysée Treaty. The declaration provides military support for Ukraine “for as long as it takes,” announces new armament projects, and a Franco-German exercise in the “Indo-Pacific.” This is also due to Germany's severe setbacks in its rivalry with the Unites States, including its growing military dependence and the threat of its deindustrialization due to the exodus of production sites to the USA. According to the French publicist Emmanuel Todd, the current global power struggle – “the third world war has begun” – is also “about Germany.” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz anticipates the emergence of a “multipolar world,” in which Germany and the EU are to assume leading roles as strong military powers.

Niamh Ni Bhriain from TNI on Weapons Business Booming TNI's report is available here: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/smoke-screen

(Own report) – Following the total failure in Mali, the EU is now preparing a military operation in neighboring Niger. The decision on the deployment, recently announced by EU Foreign Affairs Commissioner Josep Borrell, could already be made during the EU Foreign Ministers meeting in two weeks. Unlike Mali, whose cooperation with Russia is steadily growing, and Burkina Faso, which is also orienting more toward Moscow, Niger’s government, until now, loyally cooperated with the West. It already hosts numerous western troops, including a US base for drones and a Bundeswehr airlift base. Borrell had described the planned deployment as a “partnership mission” – acknowledging “that we have to be working with the Nigerian army on an equal basis.” Just recently Borrell had compared Europe to a “garden” and the “rest of the world” to a “jungle,” that the EU had to prevent from invading. As the EU seeks to entrench itself in Niger, that country, for its part, is beginning to open up to Russian influence – as had Mali, Burkina Faso and the Central African Republic before.

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