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"Now we have a leadership in the EU with some major projects selected by themselves like green transition, RRF (Recovery and Resilience Facility) policy, migration, war [in Ukraine] and sanctions policy, and they all failed. The present leadership of the European Union must go away. And we need new leaders."Orban said he intends "to come and take over Brussels," reiterating his earlier warning to "occupy" the EU's key institutions with his allies in order to bring change to the bloc.
"The one chiefly responsible for the tension that gripped our hearts on the evening of April 13 is Netanyahu and his bloody administration. Since October 7, the Israeli government has opted for provocative moves in order to spread the fire to the entire region. The Israeli government targeted the Iranian consulate in Damascus, violating international law and the Vienna Convention, and that was the last straw."Tehran's diplomatic mission was struck on April 1, killing seven high-ranking officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, including two generals. Israel never officially claimed responsibility for the strike, but has repeatedly bombed Syria, claiming preemptive self-defense from the Iranian presence there.
Comment:
1) The information in the article that "some 90% of frontline troops suffer from a gambling addiction" is disturbing, add some drugs and alcohol to the picture, and it is clear why there is not more resistance from the people on the ground. Taking a step back, in many western countries teenagers loose class time and memory restoring night sleep due to computer games, helped along with legal and illegal drugs. Is it called zombification?
2) The German paper, Berliner Zeitung posted and article about the case, beginning, if translated: 3) From this page, Arnulf Damerau, there is in the about section: Mr. Damerau is undoubtedly a very sharp businessman, though the above expression "serial entrepreneur" is less familiar than "serial killer", but how come he did not realize what he was getting into when he began business in Ukraine, as in when you play in the dirt you get dirty. Can he not take a lesson from the people addicted to the games he has earned fortunes on, accept a big loss, and get over with it, rather than being a sorry looser? One could counter such pessimism and criticism with saying that there is always money to be made, also in war, and that it was courageous of him to step into the Ukrainian market after the war had begun. Counting on the war ending at some time is realistic, even if it could draw out, and being into a market early is always an advantage.
Alternatively one might argue, that taking risks is fine, but the amount of money he might loose is perhaps small compared to what he has or controls, so why did he not just leave, when he was threatened, and why this public whining now? Was one intention to entice the corrupt to show their face, so he would later be able to raise a voice against what is going on, given how difficult it has been for many German and European businesses, business people after the US and its EU lackeys pushed the confrontation with Russia through their front line NATO dressed up Ukrainian Nazionalists?
Whatever the case may be, considering how connected Damerau is, and his comparing of the current government with what they toppled could point to regime change being on the horizon. Zelensky assumed office on May 20, 2019 intended to last five years. Zelensky knows this as well as anyone else, and now Damerau, by going public with his complaint, has played the ball over to Zelensky.