The one they left open is in Raja-Jooseppi(-Lotta) [Border Joseph Charlotta] named after some hermit who lived there from 1910s to 1940s. Lotta is some Russian thing…
Those Russian soldiers may well question whether they’re doing an historical re-enactment of the Eastern front ca. November 1916. Let’s hope Putin meets the same fate in February of the next year the Nicholas II did.
Europe’s largest fund manager Amundi expects the Russian economy to grow three times faster than the eurozone’s in 2024, its chief investment officer said today, stressing the ineffectiveness of sanctions levied over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Amundi expects Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) to grow by 1.5% in 2024 and by 2% in 2025, compared with 0.5% and 1.2% for the euro zone. “It means that the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia – the major developed countries – are unable to sanction a country effectively,” Amundi’s CIO Vincent Mortier said at a news conference in Paris on the fund manager’s 2024 outlook. “That’s what it means. We can deplore it, but it’s a reality.”
The impact of the sanctions was visible in terms of asset-freezing for a certain number of people, Mortier said, but not so much on Russia’s imports and exports.
Major emerging economies under the Brics umbrella (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), as well as countries such as Turkey and Kazakhstan, benefited from the sanctions as Russia managed to move its exports away from western countries, Mortier said.
“It’s a reality check. In the end, if we take stock of the war in Ukraine: Europe has suffered directly and strongly; for the United States [the impact is] neutral; but Turkey, central Asia and Asia more generally have benefited,” he said.
Could something like this even be viable?
And combat-worthy to Ukraine?
The thing to remember about BILD is that it is highly partisan, its founder Axel Springer was a template for Rupert Murdoch. The most common descriptor of it is “fear, hate, tits and the weather report”.
A huge amount of the negative opinion of the current German government is due to BILD and its more genteel sibling paper Die Welt spinning furiously to make everything seem terrible. BILD is the one for screeching and going into histrionics, Die Welt just says the same thing with a thin veneer of reasonable tone.
It would be another aircraft type for Ukraine to maintain. They’re already accepting donations of F-16s and there is a large body of experience within Europe of the F-16 system so it makes sense to concentrate efforts there.
BTW the article has a number of inaccuracies about the avionics that the F/A-18s will be delivered with. Many of the avionics are not releasable to civilian operators or have buy-back contingencies from the OEM.
