While the US strike a deal with russia on the delivery of diesel fuel to the US, and russia targets Ukrainian civilian infrastructure as school, hospitals, busses, and homes, Ukraine continues hitting russia on industry that hurts all russians.
Ukraine’s earlier focus was on russian oil installations, which resulted in massive fuel shortages and major decline in oil exports. This is clearly noticeable for any russian carowner, and delivers blows to the already fragile russian economy.
Ik zal niet zeggen ‘geen dag te laat’ want dit had natuurlijk direkt gemoeten bij de formulering van EU milieubeleid jaren geleden. Nu maar hopen dat het transport van goederen over de halve wereld ook als milieu belastend zal worden gerekend.
Note the quoted ‘development’ above, referring to the new form of colonization as announced and deployed by the US: land-grabbing countries to steal their natural resources to benefit the USA.
Perhaps, as I did, you wonder about the modern history of neighbors Ukraine and Russia, like:
I’ve tried to summarize all agreements on peace and sovereignty that Ukraine has been involved in with Russia since the fall of the USSR…
I would like to contribute to Paul’s recent essay by trying to put institutions and persons into a different perspective.
If you find the tone somewhat cynical, then you may be right.
It’s about politics after all. Continue reading →
Two days ago, from the time I write this, a peace plan for Ukraine was leaked, most likely from the White House or from the Pentagon. It didn’t reveal much detail, but from any of those sources, anything could be expected. Two days in and the contents all over the news, I can confirm that it must look exactly like the put’n wishlist for Christmas presents. And there’s nothing in it for Ukraine. Continue reading →
Anyone who knows me can vouch that I’m not much of a salesman. Au contraire, I can easily state that I have got to be the worst salesperson in the history of sales! In my latest project, I decided to write a book about a covert espionage operation in russia, with the goal to undermine russia’s infrastructure to the point where it would be more than noticeable in society, government, and military. The book was written and then published earlier this year.
The idea of this project was to sell as many copies as I could, deduct the (very low) printing cost from each sale, and send the remainder – the total profit – to an organisation that helps civilians and military in Ukraine. Due to my poor sales skills (it cannot be the book, ’cause that’s great!), hardly any sales were made. Continue reading →
As aforementioned, there’s another new book on its way to the publisher. With it being a short story, I’ll probably not do the paperback thing on it. Well, perhaps I might after all, we’ll see. Continue reading →
The great Amazon has since a few years problems delivering print-on-demand paperback books within Europe. Sure I can order a paperback to my summerplace in Spain with no problems and delivered within days. But getting one out to Sweden, where I live, is not possible for the great Amazon. Mid 2022, they still blame it on Covid…
So I struck deals with two publishers, Amazon.com for the North American market and BreaveNewBooks.nl for the European markets. The content of BraveNewBooks is forwarded to other large bookshops such as bol.com. Continue reading →
De Europese Commissie zet het licht op groen voor extra investeringen in onder meer aardgas. Dit als vervanging voor steen- en bruinkool dat in veel energiecentrales nog als brandstof wordt gebruikt. Continue reading →
Zoals hopelijk bekend hebben we in Nederland net als binnen de EU meerdere politieke partijen in elk land. Dit maakt het mogelijk om een breder deel van de bevolking te laten stemmen op een partij die juist hun opinie iets meer vertegenwoordigt dan de andere partijen. We roepen dan met zijn allen dat dit een democratisch pricipe is.
Andere landen hebben slechts twee partijen, vaak een linksere en een rechtsere partij. Engeland behoorde lang tot dit principe, de Verenigde Staten van Amerika doen dat nog steeds. Continue reading →