Reuters, Afp, Sputnik and Europa Press
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 26, 2024, p. 19
Brussels. The president of the military committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Rob Bauer, yesterday urged companies to prepare for a war context and adjust their production and distribution lines accordingly, in order to be less vulnerable. to possible blackmail from Russia and China.
Speaking at an event at the European Policy Center think tank, Bauer spoke of the West’s dependence on supplies from China, where 60 percent of all rare earth materials are produced and 90 percent are processed; In addition, he explained that the chemical ingredients for sedatives, antibiotics, anti-inflammatories and medications for low blood pressure also come from China.
We are naive if we think that the (Chinese) Communist Party will never use that power. Business leaders in Europe and America must realize that the business decisions they make have strategic consequences for the security of their nation.Bauer stressed.
Meanwhile, Germany is preparing a list of shelters, including parking lots, state buildings and private properties, that could provide emergency shelter to civilians in the event of a war escalation, the Interior Ministry reported, at a time when the chancellor German Federal, Olaf Scholz, opposes the delivery of long-range missiles Taurus to Ukraine.
On the front, Russian air defense systems shot down eight ballistic missiles fired by Ukraine’s armed forces, while Russian missiles damaged residential buildings in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and in Odessa in the south, and a wave of drones caused Temporary electricity outages in the Mykolaiv region and targeted the capital, kyiv, Ukrainian official sources reported.
Russia delivered to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons the results of an analysis that confirm the use, by kyiv troops, of munitions with toxic agents in the Russian city of Sudzha, the head of the Russian delegation denounced yesterday. Kiril Lisogorski, in a session of the organization.
In turn, United Kingdom authorities imposed their largest package of sanctions against russian shadow fleetformed by ships of great age and anonymous ownership to transport oil despite existing international sanctions.
