Sunday, March 19, 2023

Much talk in the world about weapons and armies

The main item on the 8pm ARD German news last evening was the visit of the German chancellor with six of his cabinet colleagues, including the defence minister, to Japan.

Ukraine and energy supplies was high on the topics discussed.

The next item on that news programme was the build up of the Polish army and how is has doubled in size  in a short time. It showed an 18-year old boy signing up to join the military.

Poland with 325,000 personnel has the largest army in Western Europe.

The Russian Army is made up of 1.15 million active soldiers with another two million reserve troops.

Ukraine’s army has approximately 500,000 troops.

On Monay Chinese president Xi Jinping visits Moscow

Are we inexorably heading towards war?

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