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Shifting tensions over Ukraine
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We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US hegemony
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THE official Ministry of Defence line on the demise of Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane — that Prigozhin’s death will have a deeply destabilising effect on the Wagner Group — is true only if Wagner was and is an entity separate from the Russian state.
The MoD echoes something of Vladimir Putin’s own evaluation of his former ally by lauding his personal attributes of hyper-activity, exceptional audacity and a drive for results.
But in overreaching himself in his dash on Moscow Prigozhin demonstrated the reality that the state cannot tolerate a challenge to its monopoly of force.
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