Around 70,000 protesters marched in Prague on Saturday to demonstrate against the Czech government over rising energy prices and to demand an end to sanctions on Russia and arms shipments to Ukraine.
The protest included demonstrators from across the political spectrum, including the populist right-wing Freedom and Direct Democracy Party and the Czech Republic’s Communist Party.
The parties that participated were described in media reports as “fringe,” but 70,000 demonstrators is a sizeable showing in Prague, a city with a population of approximately 1.3 million.
The protesters voiced opposition to the EU and NATO and called for the center-right coalition government led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala to resign. “The aim of our demonstration is to demand change, mainly in solving the issue of energy prices, especially electricity and gas, which will destroy our economy this autumn,” said Jiri Havel, an organizer of the demonstration, according to Reuters.
Fiala’s government survived a no-confidence vote on Friday that was held over the government’s handling of the energy crisis that has been brought on by EU sanctions against Russia.
Europe is bracing for a harsh winter, especially since Russia indefinitely shut down the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline, which connects Russia and Germany. Officials in Berlin are expecting social unrest this winter in response to soaring heating costs.
A rally against sanctions on Russia was also held in Germany over the weekend, although it was much smaller than the one in Prague. A group of about 2,000 mostly Russian-speaking protesters marched in the western German city of Cologne on Sunday, calling for Berlin to drop its support for Ukraine.
I wonder what would have happened if the vote of confidence had been scheduled for November instead of September.
And I wonder how much money exchanged hands just prior to the no-confidence vote on Friday.
Maybe the people of Europe are waking up to their terrible vassal states who don’t care about their best interest? …Nah. Just a fart in the wind. They will go back to sleep. …But, I hope I’m wrong. In fact, I would love nothing more than to be proven wrong.
I wish that 70,000 Amerikkkans would March on DC to protest our billions of taxpayer dollars being sent to a Naziesque regime doomed to fail.
But, that’s what Amerikkka does best; support and invest in unwinnable wars. What a completely failed regime we are.
Or any other regime on the planet. $0 in foreign aid.
70,000 questioning the evil obama and senile angry Joey Biden!
I hope they can come out in winter when it’s extra cold.
Good for Prague! Maybe this is the beginning? I pray it is. But, the forces (money) to keep the war going is stronger than the will of the people to stop the war. Money is what it’s all about. Marx was right about that one, wasn’t he?
If the “no confidence” vote wasn’t fixed, they wouldn’t have allowed it.
I didn’t see any coverage from the US MSM, or did I miss it?
There was like a 5 second video of it on NBC evening news with the bobble head newsreader mumbling something about Prague, which most Americans couldn’t find on a marked map.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation Ukraine has lost, 286 aircraft, 151 helicopters, 1867 unmanned aerial vehicles, 372 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4776 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 824 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3366 field artillery guns and mortars, and also 5250 units of special military vehicles.
Each tank price is approx. US$6 million. So there is plenty of money being issued just not for health care, education, infrastructure, heating, fuel etc etc etc.
Interestingly today. in Kherson Ukraine. NATO sent Polish Leopard2 tanks into the bridgehead that Russia had set up as a fire trap. The bridgehead is littered with burnt NATO tanks. This is the first time that NATO tanks have been seen in Ukraine, are all the European stocks of Russian tanks exhausted?
Which begs the question, who crewed the Polish tanks, NATO?
“In total, since the beginning of the special military operation Ukraine has lost some number of aircraft, tanks, etc. that Doom Sternz has no way of knowing or calculating.”
Fixed, no charge.
Thomas, he must have gotten that info from SOMEwhere. I don’t believe he’d just pull numbers out of his head…
Presumably he got the numbers from the Russian Ministry of Defence’s frequent briefings.
Those briefings are precisely as credible as their Ukrainian counterparts. Which is to say, they’re manufactured to make one side sound like it’s succeeding and the other side sound like it’s failing, not to reflect any particular actual reality on the battlefield.
For example, when the Ukrainian regime says it has “destroyed warehouses, weapon accumulations and enemy control points with high precision strikes” in a particular area, the most we can reasonably surmise is that its forces attempted something in that area.
News Flash: Russia is succeeding in territory, political objectives, socially and economically. You believe what ever you want to believe……
And Saddam Hussein had WMD’s right?
News flash:
Russia occupied Kherson on March 2.
Six months later, they’re still fighting in and around Kherson.
Whether they’re succeeding in their objectives depends on what those objectives are.
I’m glad we agree on the striking similarities between Igor Konashenkov, Ari Fleischer, and Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, though.
The Russian objectives were clearly stated, Dissarm and DeNazification. Russia has intervened in a civil war. It is NATO occupying Ukraine since the coup detat in 2014. The UN allows for self determination you dont have to like it, just hold on to your hatred of Russia and the Russian people. Half of Ukraine want their sovereignty back and they need to evict NATO powers, which Russia is assisting them with, ie DeNazify Ukraine.
The SMO may have started 24th February but the aggression that lead to the SMO started in 2014. Russia is not guilty of aggression, the western powers are. And without our aggression none of this would of occurred, hence why the Hague calls aggression the Supreme International Crime.
The SMO occurred after 2 prior wars in the Donbass which lead to 2 peace agreements that we broke. Remember the Minsk agreements? Brokered by Russia and were suppose to lead to peace.
We, the Golden Billion, are supreme international criminals.
According to the Hague the supreme international crime is the crime of aggression. In 2014 we overthrew the Government in Kiev and placed literal Nazi’s in power who started an ethnic cleansing campaign of Russian speakers in the Donbass.
It was the US that shot and murdered police and civilians in the Maidan, Brian Christopher Boyenger ran a crew of NATO funded snipers who operated from the Ukraina Hotel that was locked down by the Right Sector (Openly Neo Nazi Paramiltary Organisation) at the time.
It was Brian Christopher Boyenga who was embedded with the Azov Battalion (Openly Neo Nazi Paramiltary Organisation) who he trained and supplied US weapons to, which btw were used for the attempted ethnic cleansing of the Donbass. The US Rand corporation documented the process to ethnicly cleanse the Donbass of Russian speakers, which btw included concentration camps.
Obama himself admitted he overthrew Yanuchovich. Its not that Obama wanted to kill them all, if they fled to Russia that achieved the same goal. Obama needed to ethnically cleanse the Donbass to ensure that the Racist/Fascist Junta he placed in power could stay in power. The Russian speakers in Ukraine held the balance of power and had to be removed if the Junta was to stay in power.
The figures are according to the Russian MOD. Take them or leave them i really dont care. If you have better numbers then it would be more helpful to a discussion to present them.
Its just childish to put me down for figures i obtained from a verified source. Especially when you have no verifiable numbers yourself.
You do know what projection is right?
Well, first of all, you repeatedly post the “figures you obtained from a verified source” without ever mentioning the source unless it’s brought up.
Secondly, I don’t need “verified” numbers to understand that the claims of any belligerent regime’s Ministry of Defense are seldom “verifiable.”
I’m not the one claiming that the Ukrainian forces have destroyed this many Russian tanks or that many Russian aircraft. You’re the one making such claims, and you’re making them entirely on the basis of propaganda while pretending that they’re known, knowable, and accurate.
“belligerent regime’s Ministry of Defense” WOW just WOW you know what bigotry is right?
Got it Russia bad, NATO good.
WOW just WOW you don’t know what a “belligerent” is?
“The Russian objectives were clearly stated, Dissarm and DeNazification.”
And since that’s obviously not going to happen, the statement was one of three things:
1) Alterable to conform with reality when it turned out the Russian forces weren’t up to the job;
2) Propaganda in the first place to distract from other, real objectives; or
3) Idiotic.