Zelenskyy aide on corruption in Ukraine: ‘People are stealing like there’s no tomorrow’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/zelenskyy-aide-corruption-ukraine-people-stealing-theres-tomorrow
Ben Hodges explains why he left the Republican Party:
More Russian propaganda from the Murdochs:
It is worth noting that the Murdoch family is trying to take over both The Telegraph and The Spectator; two of the oldest and most respected Conservative opinion-formers in the world.
If they succeed, there will be more kremkrapp like the above.
Murdoch also owns the blue collar Conservative paper; The Sun, which famously is very popular with squaddies.
It is rumoured in Fleet Street that he intends to switch its allegiance to the Labour Party, which will be a great help to fucking Starmer, who is pro-Ukraine, but whose party swarms with Tankies: putlerites and Pali-lovers.
His Majesty’s UK armed forces used to be one million strong and they formed quite a key opinion bloc. Now unfortunately they are less than a third of that number.
Last figures I saw, the British Army is less than 80,00 now. Essentially, The British Army has for all practical purposes, ceased to exist.
I said the armed forces, not the army.
There are still over 200,000 in all three services, plus special forces, who are not counted.
The British army is around 82,000, down from 350,000 in the Cold War and 3m after WW2, so it’s a bad cutback. There are also the Royal Marines, who are part of the navy, plus reservists.
We could still field 250,000 combat troops, at a push and we still spend more on our military than all except five countries, which are :
US, China, Russia, India, KSA.
Still enough to fuck up most other Countries, however, that is one of the points of NATO.
Each member Country doesn’t need the numbers of active and up to date it used to, meaning more money can be spent on more important things.
Membership of NATO means mutual support when requested.
As a Country, we now concentrate on effectiveness and efficiency within our Armed Forces.
The Republican Party is emerging itself into a fascist swamp if it keeps up the way it has. But, for now, most are not trumpist scum.
That’s simply silly. Hodges is wrong, however. The Republican Party was never a conservative party. It started on the left at its founding and has never changed. What has changed is that the Democrats have gone from a stanch conservative party to the next best thing to the Communist Party.
To say people like Trump are fascists is nothing more than overheated foolishness.
The Republican party started as a liberal party and the Democratic party as a conservative party. This switched back in the 1960’s when President John F. Kennedy proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It was in response to the Civil Rights Act that Richard Nixon’s well-known “Southern Strategy” of appealing to Southern white racists was devised, which encouraged the white racist voters to quit the Democratic Party and register as Republicans.
Suggesting that the Democratic Party is anything like the Communist Party is nothing more than overheated foolishness.
Maybe he’s not an outright fascist, but I think that if you admire a fascist, and you sometimes talk like a fascist, you certainly have fascist tendencies.
The Republican Party is a conservative party for as long as I can remember.