Military Industrial Complex: Defense budgets in order.
United States ($600.4 billion) (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images) ...
China ($112.2 billion) ...
Russia ($68.2 billion) ...
Saudi Arabia ($59.6 billion) ...
United Kingdom ($57 billion) ...
France ($52.4 billion) ...
Japan ($51 billion) ...
Germany ($44.2 billion)
MIC is the production of weapons and technologies which attempts to marshal political support for continued or increased military spending by the national government.
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This blog is inspired by Blathin due to the conflict of Saudi Arabia and Yemen
Frances president Macron has called Poland's prime minister Morawiecki a far right anti Semite who bans LGBT people. This followed the Poland leaders criticism of Macrons talks with Putin. Morawiecki compared Macrons efforts to negotiating with Hitler.
I was annoyed with Macron speaking with Putin and don't like the guy. Perhaps in the French elections he will be outvoted, possibly replaced by Marine le Penn.
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BTW; Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to be indicted for bribery, fraud
Birds of a feather aye?
Well, it looks like something has taken the "Mickey" out of the former tough guy from the 2016 campaign. You can see the look on his face.
"Aww, nobody loves me, My wittle feelings are hurt." There, there Donnie, don't be sad, you did the best you could, Not everybody is qualified for this job, maybe you were just aiming too high. I mean , after all, you're running against a guy with 8 years of experience as a Vice President who knows how the job should be done. I mean, what are you? a failed real estate and casino manager and a talk show host. Let's face it, that background doesn't exactly prepare a person to run a whole country. Especially one as big as the USA. Look on the bright side, I bet you can even get your old job back as the star of "The Apprentice". You seemed a lot happier back then when you were firing everybody on a weekly basis.
Being a democratic society isint so great as it relays on voters to blame for drastic changes by a newly elected. Administration then like idiot trump voids treaties that's better then none goes against stability in the middle east and even home I believe a small part of the unstable world threats there are now and of course they werent on the wish list of voters
Its commonly perceived by almost all journalists that it (AAP) would further add to the erosion of the Congress and help the bjp.
But I hold that its not that way. My logic is simple. If one carefully analyse the situation, an entirely different picture emerges.
Actually congress has its effect in the rural areas where AAP has hardly any say. AAP has its appeal among the urban population.
And so it can be concluded that AAP would damage the prospects of bjp than that of the Congress.
Well, let's wait and watch.
First , it was in Loksabha , Congress lost majority.. In fact , some regional parties performed better than so called National Congress party in elections for last few years ...
Then it was in states , Bidhansabhas , all over the country Congress continue losing ...
And now , it came to the last stage of Congress's extinction ... In Rajyasabha , Congress faced the greatest loss ever ...
Recent state elections has clearly shown the trend that , We , Indian Voters , have finally started to look for a new and much better opposition than that worthless Congress party ...
I wonder , how long it's gonna take for Congress to get completely wiped out from Indian politics ?!?
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The use of sanctions are a form of penalty nations use on rogue behaviour by offending nations.
Okay, so how effective are they? I wouldn't know, but they surely would have some effect.
Here's an idea for the current situation in Ukraine: use the time length of sanctions. Here's what I mean....
For every month that Russia remains in Ukraine, the result will mean 1 or 2 years of severe sanctions.
Russia has just passed the 1 month time frame for being in Ukraine. Therefore, they suffer 1 or 2 years of severe sanctions, if they pull out now.
If they remain in Ukraine for 2 months, it's 2 or 4 years of severe sanctions after they pull out. This continuing response forms the end result of punishment on Russia.
It's Russia's choice what they want to live with going forward.
It should have happened a while ago, but the time has come to stop the Russians bombing and shooting and threatening the people of Ukraine.
Putin must be given an ultimatum. That should be for him to withdraw troops now from Ukraine otherwise NATO and it's forces will join in the defence of that country. Putin should be given 24 hours to start the withdrawal and if not undertaken, the ultimatum will take effect.