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Marco Setaccioli challenged Marco Travaglio's calculations on European and Russian military spending, stating that Travaglio had indicated 450 billion euros for Europe and 150 for Russia and had argued that Russia had reason to fear Europe, which had invaded it four times in the last 200 years. According to Setaccioli, in the current year Russia would have spent around 17 trillion rubles on defense, equivalent to 181 billion euros, a figure indicated, according to him, by most analysts. He noted that the nominal comparison did not take purchasing power into account: applying indices developed by specialized research centers, Russian spending would rise to 574 billion international dollars, compared to about 700 billion for the entire EU. He added that the EU would have three and a half times the population of Russia and a GDP nine times greater. Setaccioli argued that the Russian federal budget did not show all military costs. He cited studies by economist Craig Kennedy, according to which part of the spending would be financed through subsidized loans and would thus remain on the banks' balance sheets. He also recalled an investigation by Dozhd', which, according to him, had documented pressures on private companies to hire people before signing contracts with the military and to supplement salaries with corporate funds. He added that at least three militias would be linked to Gazprom, which would cover part of the costs. For these reasons, he dismissed as false the claim that Russia spent less than the EU. Historically, Setaccioli criticized Travaglio's reconstruction, according to which the Napoleonic and Nazi invasions, along with interventions in Crimea and support for the Bolsheviks, would justify Russian fears toward Europe. Setaccioli listed Russian troop interventions in Poland in 1939, Finland in 1939-1940, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Romania in 1940, Bulgaria in 1944, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Moldova in 1992, Georgia in 2008, and Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. He stated that there were no Russian regions occupied by European countries, while eight regions—one in Moldova, two in Georgia, and five in Ukraine—would be under Russian control. Finally, Setaccioli accused Travaglio of presenting a selective and misleading reconstruction to make Russia appear not dangerous, portray Europe as a threat, and argue that rearmament was unnecessary and risky. In his view, that reasoning could legitimize a potential Russian attack on Europe and constituted a form of collaborationism. #Russia #Europa #Difesa (translated)

Søren Pind wrote that this was what separated the sheep from the goats. He added that people, in his opinion, should have the religion they wanted, and that the example with Kennedy was correct, which according to him anyone who had studied American history knew. #historie #religion #Kennedy (translated)

what it means to be a man and what true sacrifice looks like At the end of August, Tim Kennedy, a former American special forces soldier and mixed martial arts fighter with millions of followers on social media, posted an online message about a conversation with his son about "what it means to be a man and what true sacrifice looks like." #minerale #mercenari #Africa (translated)

The article details the secret mission of former American soldier Tim Kennedy in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, hired by Erik Prince to help the Congolese government recover revenues from the mining industry, amid an active military conflict against Rwandan-backed rebels. #minerale #mercenari #Africa (translated)

The author of the post wrote that U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had come out in favor of the measles vaccine and quoted Fauci in agreement. He referred to a video and reported that many supporters and fans had accused Kennedy of betrayal. https://t.co/XfRuWhJcyx #Impfung #Masern #Gesundheit #US (translated)

According to a report by Axios, Trump is asking for an investigation into allegations regarding a $5.6 million donation that does not appear in the Kennedy Center's records, while the relationship between two former close associates deteriorates in the run-up to the midterm elections. #Τραμπ #εκλογές #κακοδιαχείριση (translated)

The author described the statement as "madness" and wrote that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed that heads of the CDC had instructed scientists for decades to destroy data that proved vaccines caused autism and to subsequently publish false results. #Impfstoffe #Autismus #Wissenschaft #DE (translated)

Guinea-Bissau rejected the controversial testing that would involve 14,000 newborns, which was supported by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., emphasizing that it never gave consent for a study that could leave half of the babies unprotected. #GvinejaBisau #cijepljenje #etičkaistraživanja (translated)

Bettina Punkt reported on a large operation in Essen: an inmate of the correctional facility was freed during a medical appointment. The police warned that the man and his accomplices could be armed. A larger police operation took place in the area of Kennedyplatz. https://t.co/ZyBwHckgaK #Essen #Polizei #Sicherheit (translated)

The author reported that Germano Dottori had written to him that the NATO nuclear exercise Steadfast Noon contributed to maintaining the deterrence on which peace rested. He added that reading the declassified conversations between Kennedy and McNamara during the Cuban missile crisis had raised some doubts for him. https://t.co/DtAFnjBpsp #nucleare #NATO #pace #US #IT (translated)

The author described a U.S.-funded scheme in Guinea-Bissau that they said would withhold hepatitis B vaccines from 7,000 newborns, apparently to test a hypothesis by Robert Kennedy Jr. They also said the country had one of the world’s highest rates of hepatitis B and asked whether the story had been covered by U.S. media. #GuineaBissau #HepatitisB #Vaccines #GW #US

I do not support his decision to import it from Putin. Vladimir Putin is a murderer. He murders his own people. And he murders the fine people of Ukraine. He has blood on his hands. He will never be our friend, says another of Trump's supporters, Senator John Kennedy, to C-Span. #Trump #Putin #USA (translated)

Guinea-Bissau has launched a controversial study that leaves thousands of newborns without the hepatitis B vaccine, receiving support from U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but other scientists and doctors are troubled by the ethical aspect of the study. #vaktsiinivastane #tervishoiuminister #uuring (translated)

Vladimir Putin is a butcher. He slaughters his own people. And he slaughters good Ukrainian people. He will never be our friend. So the president is doing everything he can to reduce diesel prices. But you know what would lower them? The end of the war in Iran. Senate Republican John Kennedy indicated support for the president's intentions to lower prices but opposed "his decision to import diesel from Putin." #RusijosNafta #Ukraina #Kongresas (translated)

As Chris Kennedy, an economist for the U.S. agency, points out, the attacks carried out by Kiev against Russian infrastructure and refineries, along with potential logistical problems, could translate into a reality of fuel flow lower than that agreed upon and hoped for by the two leaders. #DieselRusso #Trump #Energia (translated)