Friday, February 16, 2018

British newspapers regularly report news about Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand and South Africa [COMPACTIDEA]

The regularity and interest with which British newspapers cover these former colonies seems to suggest that the hangover of Britain's imperial past hasn't yet gone. By frequently reporting on these nations [both news and opinion pieces, as well as usual British foreign policy propaganda], it appears that British news media is still trying to express or exert some sort of indirect control [or maybe "claim"] over these countries/territories, as if it's still the "duty" or "right" of Britain to stay interested in the affairs of these independent, sovereign countries. British newspapers' coverage of Hong Kong, for example, is quite nasty at times, as if Britain has anything to do with HK.

Friday, February 09, 2018

America likely has, or will have, an eye on Russia's Aeroflot airline - because Aeroflot's use of Russian-built aircraft helps Russia's defense industry too

Just like the vast military-related orders received by Boeing also directly or indirectly help its passenger planes business, use of Russian-manufactured airplanes by Aeroflot also helps Russian defense industry. In light of this, would America be comfortable with the increasing use of Russian-built civilian aircraft by Russia's legendary international airline Aeroflot? The loss to America is double - lost revenues/profits at Boeing and significant financial support to the Russian defense-industrial base. 

When Aeroflot's CEO makes statements like the one below, he obviously exposes his company to scrutiny by anti-Russian American hawks:

"In today's geopolitical context we believe it is essential that there is competitive Russian-made technology, and that it is of the highest quality and competitively priced. For this reason our partnership with Rostec, our largest partner and a shareholder of Aeroflot, is of critical importance." - [link 1] [link 2]

Monday, February 05, 2018

Vladimir Putin could secretly be baiting America to bankrupt itself by spending hundreds of billions of dollars on nuclear weapons that won't ever be used

So many times it has been said that the development costs of the F-35 fighter aircraft are too high. They complain about wasted tens of billions of dollars on this white elephant. And then, all of a sudden, they go out and commit between 1,200 and 1,700 billion dollars for modernization/overhaul of nuclear weapons. In comparison, the complaints about F-35's "steep" costs start looking rather childish. America's military-industrial complex now has its ambitions in the trillions. Billions won't wet the tongues of these big guys anymore. The milking of the public must be in trillions now. But could it be a calculated move by Vladimir Putin? To "force" America to spend trillions on atomic bombs [that won't ever be used]? Perhaps implying a zero return on investment? Thus making America hollow from within and eventually imploding and bankrupting it? If Mr. Putin can pull this one off, it will be one of the greatest contributions to mankind by anyone in the world's history. Just imagine how much peaceful this world will become without America's never-ending wars and bombardments and drones and missiles and fighter aircraft.