Comments by "Caroline Collett" (@carolinecollett956) on "Sky News"
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We are living in a "hybrid phase", he adds, with threats including "disinformation, cyber attack, espionage and sabotage".
When asked if this is the most dangerous period, in terms of risk of war for Germany since the Cold War, he replied: "Yes, definitely."
"I don't think we are in war, but we are no longer living in peacetime."
Last year, Germany honed its battle readiness including using war games to test how the military or civilians respond. But while ministers and military chiefs talk about the need to get "war ready" - years of deprioritising defence have made that task extremely complex.
Success involves the whole country rising rapidly to the challenge, according to Bodemann.
"Russia is reorganising, restructuring and boosting its forces... We have to speed up to be ready before it is," he warned.
In her annual report, Germany's armed forces commissioner, Eva Hogl, noted the nation's military, or Bundeswehr, faced significant personnel problems as well as continuing struggles with equipment shortages.
At the end of 2023, soldier numbers dropped by 1,537 compared to the year before with more than 20,000 vacant posts.
So how did we get here?
Nato bases in Russias back yard which the Russians find threatening to their country
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@farazvfx
The foreign-born population of the United Kingdom includes immigrants from a wide range of countries who are resident in the United Kingdom. In the period January to December 2016, there were groups from 22 foreign countries that were estimated to consist of at least 100,000 individuals residing in the UK (people born in Poland, India, Pakistan, the Republic of Ireland, Romania, Germany, Bangladesh, South Africa, China, Italy, Nigeria, Lithuania, the United States, France, Spain, the Philippines, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Australia, Portugal, Kenya and Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 . All welcomed however our infrastructure cannot cope with a rising population
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Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey apply to join Brics
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech in virtual format at the opening ceremony of the Brics Business Forum on Wednesday, June 22, 2022
SAUDI ARABIA, Turkey and Egypt are on course to become the latest members of the Brics International Forum group and could submit applications next year, its president said today.
“All three countries have shown their interest in joining [Brics] and are preparing to apply for membership,” Purnima Anand said.
“I believe this is a good step, because expansion is always looked upon favourably; it will definitely bolster Brics’ global influence,” she told Russian newspaper Izvestia.
Their membership bids could be discussed and potentially agreed at next year’s Brics summit in South Africa, with the trio “already engaged in the process.”
It is doubtful that they will all join at the same time, Ms Anand said, but she added that their membership will come “very soon.”
Iran and Argentina applied last month to join the bloc of emerging economies, which comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
The Brics countries account for more than 40 per cent of the global population and about a quarter of the world’s gross domestic product.
Also last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans for Brics to develop a new “basket-based” global reserve currency, which would pose a serious challenge to the United States.
The basket is likely to contain the five present members’ currencies — the real, rouble, rupee, renminbi and rand — and would present an alternative to the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Right (SDR).
The SDR is not a currency, but effectively a basket of claims on top reserve currencies such as the US dollar, the euro, the pound, the yen and its most recent addition the renminbi.
Washington also fears the decline of the dollar as the world currency since this would mean it losing the ability to control global financial markets. ..
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