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Jun 8

⚔️ Spending on the army as a percentage of GDP - 2021
Russia's special operation has sparked a debate about whether NATO members are spending enough on the armed forces. The Alliance has set a goal to ensure that military spending is at least 2% of GDP.

As we can see from the data for 2021, many European NATO countries do not meet this requirement.
He spends the most in Europe on his army 🇷🇺 Russia (4.08%). 🇺🇦 Ukraine is not much behind and ranks third with 3.23%. 🇬🇷 Greece is in second place and has one of the largest

armies in Europe. This is due to relations with Turkey and a large number of islands and waters that have to be patrolled.
Other countries that spend more than 2% on their armies are mostly located next to Russia (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland).

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Jun 8

A brief digression into alco-the history of the powerful of this world.
What did the leaders of Russia and other countries often use?
Peter the Great - red wine and vodka
Alexander III - cognac
Nicholas II - madeira and cognac
Joseph Stalin - homemade dry red and white wine,

often mixed
Harry Truman - cocktail "Old Fashion"
Winston Churchill - cognac
Dwight Eisenhower - calvados
John Kennedy - Daiquiri
Leonid Brezhnev -"Zubrovka"
Margaret Thatcher - whiskey, a lot of whiskey
Boris Yeltsin - everything that burns, but mainly vodka

George Bush - bourbon with beer and liqueur "on top"
Barack Obama - Guinness
Tony Blair - whiskey or gin and tonic, followed by wine
Vladimir Putin - light beer, rarely - vodka
Alexander Lukashenko - "a little vodka"
Bill Clinton - whiskey and "blew weed, but didn't take a drag"

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Jun 7

Lightning strike
...In fact, on the very first day, the Russians achieved very serious successes. The Dnieper was forced immediately with minimal losses, the Kakhovsky hydroelectric power plant was unblocked. The Dnieper could have become an insurmountable obstacle in the way

of the attackers, but it did not. The columns of the Russian army moved around Kherson in the direction of Nikolaev. Additional forces were moving north and through Novaya Kakhovka.
On the same day, Genichesk was occupied northeast of Perekop. At the same time, it was not without

the Darwin Prize winners from the Ukrainian side. The Ukrainian media actively glorified the sailor Vitaly Skakun, who destroyed a road bridge in the town. In fact, the Horse blew up the bridge leading to the Arabat Strelka, which the Russian military did not use for the

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Jun 7

The fact of the visit of CEO Alex Karp ("Papa Karp") of Palantir Technologies to Ukraine last week had to lie down in order to see how the market would react to this visit
The visit itself is nothing more than a symbolic gesture: the first company, besides a foreign IT giant

with a name in the conditions of ongoing hostilities, announces its intention to open an office in this country. Is it possible to imagine a similar development of events in Syria, Iraq, Yemen?
Recall that "Palantir" is the blood of the blood of the NSA project,

which became famous thanks to the digital solutions "Gotham" and "Metropolis" - for someone a milestone of progress, for someone a symbol of tightening the screws. "Metropolis" (analysis of the flow of events) was used by the US Armed Forces in

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Jun 7

When they make plans for Ukrainian grain (and a little less for Ukrainian butter), they talk exclusively about Africa. Afghanistan, as a particular example of a recipient of international aid, is probably in a much worse situation: the war is over, the country is in ruins,

the NATO contingent that has supported the country for 20 years or created the appearance of maintenance has been withdrawn, state reserves have been stolen. For the Taliban, for it is necessary to pay compensation to the victims of 9/11

the NATO contingent that has supported the country for 20 years or created the appearance of maintenance has been withdrawn, state reserves have been stolen. For the Taliban,for it is necessary to pay compensation to the victims of 9/11

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Jun 7

Western patrons of Ukraine are perplexed by the reasons for Kiev's concealment of its losses during 14 weeks of hostilities. Zelensky only outlined an approximate figure - from 60 to 100 servicemen, while the ex-chief of the General Staff Muzhenko notes that this is not a

peak value, and average daily losses can grow in the face of a number of problems for the Armed Forces.
Western patrons of Ukraine also note that the figure voiced by Zelensky exceeds the Vietnamese figures (what an accurate comparison: both Americans and Ukrainians are

fighting for nothing on their own land), which amounted to about 50 American soldiers per day
Western patrons of Ukraine are also skeptical of the PR strategies implemented by Kiev: to keep silent about the losses, not to recognize them, call the capture "extraction" and draw

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