Campaigners warn soaring oil and gas prices are pushing households into another cost-of-living crisis
BELARUSIAN President Alexander Lukashenko has warned of increased militarisation on the country’s borders and is blaming foreign forces for creating a humanitarian crisis.
After meeting top officials from Belarus’s security, defence and law enforcement agencies on Monday, he accused Ukraine of establishing military camps harbouring opposition figures who are being prepared to return to Belarus to overthrow the government.
And Mr Lukashenko said that most of the troops gathered on the country’s border, particularly those in Poland, were from the United States.
In Washington, the willingness to accept an open war with Russia is growing — at Europe’s expense. While Nato states are being drawn into confrontation, Europe risks becoming the battlefield of a potential world war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys
In the first half of a two-part article, PETER MERTENS looks at how Nato’s €800 billion ‘Readiness 2030’ plan serves Washington’s pivot to the Pacific, forcing Europeans to dismantle social security and slash pensions to fund it



