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by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher According to the AP news agency, citing the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Western arms companies could not cope with the volume of orders and, furthermore, could not adapt production to “high-intensity warfare.” This has exposed Western countries, most notably the US and the UK, as they do not have the strong defence industries that they would have people believe in. “Many arms companies faced obstacles in adjusting to production for high-intensity warfare,” said Lucie Béraud-Sudreau, director of the independent institute’s Military Expenditure and Arms Production Program. Nan Tian, a senior researcher with SIPRI, […] #Featured #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/12/western-defence-industry-not-ready-for-high-intensity-warfare-sipri/?feed_id=7232

“The Commission recommends that the (EU) Council opens accession negotiations with Ukraine,” said the European Commission last week, thus giving the green light for European Union membership talks. This recommendation has taken Kyiv a step closer to becoming a member, as soon as the Eastern European country takes measures to meet the bloc’s remaining conditions, such as reducing levels of corruption, implementing a lobbying in line with EU standards (it currently has none) and enhancing national minority safeguards. Europe Gives Green-Light to Ukraine Membership Talks, Turning a Blind-Eye to Minority Rights of Russians, All of those are challenging, to say […] #Featured #UkraineWar #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/11/ukraine-and-minority-rights-the-blind-eye/?feed_id=6632

UPDATE – BREAKING NEWS UN agencies withdraw from Gaza Strip The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and the World Health Organization (UNRWA) have withdrawn from Gaza, Al Arabiya reports, citing the Gaza Health Ministry. “The UNRWA and the WHO are no longer providing services in the Gaza Strip,” Gaza Health Ministry Director General Munir al-Boursh told the TV channel. “The UN agencies have given in to Israel and left the Gaza Strip,” he added. The news has been relaunched by TASS Russian News Agency. According to the health official, the number of people killed in Israeli strikes […] #Featured #IsraelWarForPalestine2023 #Military #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/11/press-tv-us-hellfire-missiles-used-to-strike-gaza-al-shifa-hospital/?feed_id=6581

UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS:  According to AlJazerra – the two largest Hospitals in Gaza have officially closed… Newborn babies wrapped in blankets and lined up on a bed after being removed from incubators have become the defining image showing the Israeli siege of hospitals in the Gaza Strip. «At least 32 patients, including six premature babies, have died at the al-Shifa Hospital in the last three days, Palestinian Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said Monday, as Gaza’s largest medical facility was forced to shut down due to lack of fuel and medicine» reported Al Jazeera. end of list More than 100 […] #Featured #IsraelWarForPalestine2023 #Military #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/11/press-tv-us-hellfire-missiles-used-to-strike-gaza-al-shifa-hospital/?feed_id=6559

UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS:  According to AlJazerra – the two largest Hospitals in Gaza have officially closed… Newborn babies wrapped in blankets and lined up on a bed after being removed from incubators have become the defining image showing the Israeli siege of hospitals in the Gaza Strip. «At least 32 patients, including six premature babies, have died at the al-Shifa Hospital in the last three days, Palestinian Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said Monday, as Gaza’s largest medical facility was forced to shut down due to lack of fuel and medicine» reported Al Jazeera. end of list More than 100 […] #Featured #IsraelWarForPalestine2023 #Military #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/11/press-tv-us-hellfire-missiles-used-to-strike-gaza-al-shifa-hospital/?feed_id=6529

UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS:  According to AlJazerra – the two largest Hospitals in Gaza have officially closed… Newborn babies wrapped in blankets and lined up on a bed after being removed from incubators have become the defining image showing the Israeli siege of hospitals in the Gaza Strip. «At least 32 patients, including six premature babies, have died at the al-Shifa Hospital in the last three days, Palestinian Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said Monday, as Gaza’s largest medical facility was forced to shut down due to lack of fuel and medicine» reported Al Jazeera. end of list More than 100 […] #Featured #IsraelWarForPalestine2023 #Military #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/11/press-tv-us-hellfire-missiles-used-to-strike-gaza-al-shifa-hospital/?feed_id=6488

Om the below image a US-made AGM-114 Hellfire missile by Gul Jammas Hussain – originally published on Press TV All links to previous Gospa News investigations have been added aftermath, for the ties with the topics highlighted  Subscribe to the Gospa News Newsletter to read the news as soon as it is published US-made AGM-114R9X Hellfire missiles were used to strike Gaza’s main hospital, al-Shifa, where a number of Palestinian patients were killed and wounded on Friday, according to multiple sources.   Al-Shifa Hospital, where thousands of medics, patients and displaced people are trapped, was attacked on Friday night. The hospital […] #Featured #IsraelWarForPalestine2023 #Military #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/11/press-tv-us-hellfire-missiles-used-to-strike-gaza-al-shifa-hospital/?feed_id=6445

Om the below image a US-made AGM-114 Hellfire missile by Gul Jammas Hussain – originally published on Press TV All links to previous Gospa News investigations have been added aftermath, for the ties with the topics highlighted  Subscribe to the Gospa News Newsletter to read the news as soon as it is published US-made AGM-114R9X Hellfire missiles were used to strike Gaza’s main hospital, al-Shifa, where a number of Palestinian patients were killed and wounded on Friday, according to multiple sources.   Al-Shifa Hospital, where thousands of medics, patients and displaced people are trapped, was attacked on Friday night. The hospital […] #Featured #IsraelWarForPalestine2023 #Military #WarZone #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/11/press-tv-us-hellfire-missiles-used-to-strike-gaza-al-shifa-hospital/?feed_id=6435

…an Israeli mini nuke hit Beirut but was worldwide officially disguised as a conventional accident Israel’s break of the taboo of the non-use of nuclear weapons especially in relative ”peacetime”. Beirut, August 4, 2020: an Israeli False Flag and False Combined Multiple Weapons Technologies Attack? In this moment of extremely violent and protracted Israeli attack against the Gaza’s Strip, it is appropriate to denounce a very serious recent episode of the war Israel waged against Lebanon to avoid and/or reduce the risk that a similar episode could happen again maybe in Gaza. Coincidentally, it happened just two days before the […] #Featured #Investigations #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/11/beirut-israeli-false-flag/?feed_id=6292

by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher Residents of a German city in Saxony protested the construction of a factory to produce ammunition to supply Ukraine, The New York Times reported. According to the article, Grossenhain residents want to live in peace with Russia and disapprove of Germany’s aid to Ukraine. The New York Times highlighted that government leaders in Saxony thought that the plans of Rheinmetall, Germany’s most prominent arms manufacturer, to construct a new munitions factory would lead to an economic boom. “Some in the chosen city of Grossenhain, with a population approaching 20,000, saw it differently. […] #Featured #Military #World Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/10/german-city-residents-protest-construction-of-weapons-factory-to-equip-kiev/?feed_id=4322

In the cover image Britain’s Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon Introduction by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio VERSIONE IN ITALIANO While Italians and Europeans in general, with the exception of those from the East and especially the Poles, are distracted by the usual sterile political controversies with which the mainstream media try to distract the now few thinking brains in Ukraine, a hellish autumn is looming which could easily degenerate into World War III due to two nations that would not have much to lose but much to gain in the case of an international conflict localized only in Europe. With […] #Featured #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/09/nato-countries-dangerous-defiant-double-move-toward-ww3/?feed_id=3454

In the cover image Britain’s Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon Introduction by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio VERSIONE IN ITALIANO While Italians and Europeans in general, with the exception of those from the East and especially the Poles, are distracted by the usual sterile political controversies with which the mainstream media try to distract the now few thinking brains in Ukraine, a hellish autumn is looming which could easily degenerate into World War III due to two nations that would not have much to lose but much to gain in the case of an international conflict localized only in Europe. With […] #Featured #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/09/nato-countries-dangerous-defiant-double-move-toward-ww3/?feed_id=3426

On the cover image the Ukrainian combat ship Yury Olefirenko destroyed by Russian forces by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio VERSIONE IN ITALIANO “We are preparing for this conflict to become protracted, for the consequences of such a turn of events. We must prepare public opinion to sustain long-term support for Ukraine in a high- to […] #Featured #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/06/how-russia-is-winning-the-conflict-protracted-by-natos-weapons-eu-us-citizens-money/?feed_id=991

On the cover image the Ukrainian combat ship Yury Olefirenko destroyed by Russian forces by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio VERSIONE IN ITALIANO “We are preparing for this conflict to become protracted, for the consequences of such a turn of events. We must prepare public opinion to sustain long-term support for Ukraine in a high- to […] #Featured #Military #UkraineWar #WarZone Read Full Article: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/06/how-russia-is-winning-the-conflict-protracted-by-natos-weapons-eu-us-citizens-money/?feed_id=961