Dianne Feinstein, 88, Says She Won’t Step Down

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 88, says she won’t resign before her term ends in 2024, despite her democratic colleagues’ concerns that she is mentally unfit to serve.

California Senator Dianne Feinstein said she won’t step down from her position before it concludes in 2024, despite democratic colleagues saying they’re concerned she’s mentally incompetent to serve.

Dianne Feinstein, 88, said she regularly meets with leaders and isn’t isolated after four senators, three of them Democrats, a California Congress member, and three ex-staffers said that her short term memory was declining.

Her short term memory is deteriorating after four senators – three of them Democrats – a California congress member, and three former staffers said she meets with leaders regularly.

She told a newspaper outlet that she sees people. That her attendance is satisfactory. That she puts in the hours and that they represent a huge state and that she was somewhat baffled by all of this.

Dianne Feinstein, one of the longest-serving senators, had long been recognised in Washington for her issue-focused passion and sharp wit, but now people who’ve worked with the California lawmaker for years now say she has difficulty recognising them and repeats the same few talking points.

The senator said no one had brought up these concerns to her directly, and she told a newspaper outlet that the conversation had not happened and the real discussion was whether she’s an adequate representative for 40 million people.

Talk has been floated of convincing her to quit before her present term concludes in 2024.

An employee from another senator’s office has also been cited saying they’ve seen their boss go out of their way to reintroduce themselves to Dianne Feinstein before talking to her.

An unidentified California lawmaker said, referencing a fable about fearing to speak truth to power that they’ve got an Emperor’s New Clothes problem there.

They said they’d worked with her for a long time and long enough to know what she was like just a few years ago, consistently in command, always in charge, on top of the details, basically couldn’t resist a conversation where she was driving some bill or some idea and that all of that is now gone.

The member of Congress described an hours-long discussion in which they had to reintroduce themselves to the veteran senator numerous times and circle back to the same questions without any indication she knew they’d already covered it.

The lawmaker said that she was an intellectual and political power not that long ago, and that’s why their meeting with her was so jarring because now there was no glimmer of that, and that and the other interactions described in the report emerged before the death of Dianne Feinstein’s husband in February of this year.

Of course, all Americans deserve competent representation, so anyone working for the President as well as the President himself should pass a competency test. Let’s face it you have to pass a test to drive a car, so why are Joe Biden, Dianne Feinstein as well as some others smelling of formaldehyde and then feebly attempting to lead?

Shouldn’t it be that once you reach retirement age you should at least have to have a competency test, at least once their session is over?

Of course, everyone is different. I’m not saying that once you retire you suddenly become senile or have to wear a diaper. There are some very spritely retired people, but then there are some that are not so spritely, but even the spritely retired people sometimes have to have a nap in the afternoon and aren’t quite as sharp as they once were, which is totally understandable.

But many of the more senior statesmen are also totally out of touch with things because they’ve been in office too long, and life in Washington DC looks nothing like the rest of the country, and statesmen snoozing during an address is just not a good look at all.

As Costs Rise 7 Percent In March, Inflation Reaches Its Highest Level In 30 Years

The UK also reported uninspiring employment data and slower GDP growth this week.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is facing more financial pressure after the rate of inflation skyrocketed to a 30 year high.

The Office for National Statistics said that the rate of Consumer Prices Index inflation grew to 7 per cent in March from 6.2 per cent in February.

The rise was higher than the 6.7 per cent that analysts had anticipated and was driven by fuel, restaurant and food costs.

It comes after the United Kingdom also documented uninspiring employment figures and slower GDP growth this week.

Inflation was once more at the highest point since March 1992, when inflation stood at 7.1 per cent.

Labour’s Pat McFadden, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said that the cost of living was hitting households hard. Not only were energy prices up, but the Government was again imposing tax rises, and as today’s rising inflation figures showed, prices on everyday items were up too.

He said Labour had a plan to cut energy bills through a one-off windfall tax on oil and gas producer profits. Meanwhile, the Chancellor has raised taxes for working people to their highest levels in 70 years.

The inflation increase doesn’t even take into account the average 54 per cent increase in energy bills that was applied to about 22 million households two weeks ago.

This won’t appear in inflation figures until next month when April’s data is expected to show another leap in inflation and shows the increasing squeeze on ordinary people.

The Bank of England has predicted that inflation could peak at about 8 per cent in April.

ONS chief economist Grant Fitzner said broad-based price rises saw annual inflation increase sharply again in March.

He said that amongst the largest increases were petrol costs, with prices mostly collected before the recent cut in fuel duty, and furniture.

He said that restaurant and hotel prices also increased steeply in March while, after falling a year ago, there were rises across a number of different types of food.

He said the price of goods departing UK factories had continued to increase substantially with metal and transport products both at record highs and food reaching its highest rate for over a decade. Raw material costs also increased, with significant growth in the price of crude oil.

Petrol at 160.2p per litre on average in March and diesel at 170.5 p, were both at record high prices.

When the cost of living crisis starts to bite, it’s not just the impoverished but also the middle classes that will suffer, and the political danger for this government will rise exponentially.

The British public endures a lot, but even they have limitations when they see their living standards eroding while at the same time the state keeps raising taxes on the British working population but gives generous exceptions to the wealthy living in their tax haven called the United Kingdom.

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak are criminals and they should be ousted now because the British people no longer have any faith in them, and don’t believe that this hogwash is about the war in Ukraine. This problem has been two years in the making where supply lines were and are still affected by people not working or not working up to capacity because of COVID restrictions.

Incompetent governments have caused this and what you’re now paying is the true cost of their overreaction to a virus with a better than 99 per cent survival rate.

However, this isn’t a UK centric problem, but a global one, and one which I’d like to believe that those with a few brain cells would have seen coming a mile off, therefore, it shouldn’t come as any real surprise.

Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, And Carrie Will Be Fined For Partygate

He also attended a Christmas quiz night at No10 (pictured).

Boris Johnson became the first serving Prime Minister in history to be punished for law-breaking as No 10 confirmed he will be fined by the police for attending an illegal Partygate event.

Boris Johnson, his wife Carrie and Chancellor Rishi Sunak are among a tranche of 30 more fixed penalty notices dished out by Scotland Yard to people who broke lockdown rules.

The PM’s wife, Carrie, and Boris Johnson were fined today for attending illegal lockdown parties at Number 10.

They’ve been sanctioned by Operation Hilman for breaking the law at illegal events that took place while millions of ordinary Britons were showing self-sacrifice and following restrictive COVID rules for the good of the country.

The news will put tremendous pressure on the Prime Minister, who’s encountered calls from opponents and within his own party to resign if sanctioned. Boris has resisted giving a definite answer.

Questions will also be raised over his openness towards MPs. Last year he told the Commons that all guidance was observed completely in No 10. Rishi Sunak, last December, also told MPs he didn’t attend any parties.

The Metropolitan Police didn’t reveal if Boris Johnson was among those to be sanctioned with a £50 penalty. Downing Street originally indicated that he wasn’t.

But a No 10 spokeswoman said that the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer received notice that the Metropolitan police planned to give them fixed penalty notices and that they had no additional details and that they would update again as soon as they do.

The statement didn’t cite Carrie Johnson, but her spokeswoman later said that in the interest of clarity, Carrie Johnson could confirm that she’d been informed that she would receive a Fixed Penalty Notice, but that she’s not yet received any additional particulars about the nature of the FPN.

It’s not known which event the trio were censured for, but they all attended a party arranged by Carrie Johnson for Boris Johnson’s 56th birthday in June 2020.

The Prime Minister, who’s at his Chequers country retreat, has yet to publicly admit that fines being administered by the police were proof of lawbreaking by senior figures in his Government and Whitehall.

Grieving families said there’s just no way the Prime Minister and the Chancellor can continue in their position after the duo were told they would be fined as part of a police investigation into allegations of lockdown parties held at Downing Street.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer demanded both the Prime Minister and Chancellor Rishi Sunak quit, saying that Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak had disregarded the law and continually fibbed to the British public and that they must both quit.

So, it’s out in the open now, Boris Johnson did lie, and he lied to parliament. It’s time for him and Rishi to sling their hook. They both have to go because they have decimated this country of ours, but I also fear that his replacement could be much worse.

Boris Johnson has acted illegally and yet he’s still Prime Minister. What sort of rule of law is that in the United Kingdom then?

This is a reminder that Allegra Stratton, the Prime Minister’s press secretary, was forced to quit for quipping about illegal parties during the lockdown.

Now it’s official, the Prime Minister has lied and violated the law, and we now have a Prime Minister who’s culpable of perpetrating a crime and he must resign. It’s Election time now!

But then, didn’t Tony Blair send men to their death over a false dossier. It’s apple and oranges and let’s face it we have bigger fish to fry, such as Russian aggression in Ukraine in which Boris Johnson is playing a blinder.

A Homeowner Was Ordered To Demolish A Monster Mansion Worth £200,000

Gurwinder Singh is being forced to demolish the large new house he built in Willenhall after only obtaining planning permission for a modest extension

A man has been ordered to destroy his monster mansion by council chiefs after he built it without planning approval.

Gurwinder Singh bulldozed his modest semi-detached house and replaced it with a four-bedroom property which has made his neighbour’s lives hell.

Here is an image of Gurwinder Singh’s property (left) before the building work began.

Walsall Council has slapped Gurwinder Singh with an enforcement notice ordering him to pull the building down following complaints from neighbours in Willenhall, West Midlands.

It’s believed the brand new house would have cost in the region of £200,000 to build and would have been the largest property in the area.

Gurwinder Singh had planning permission for a mediocre extension in the 1960s house but he went one stage further and demolished the entire structure.

Councillors vetoed a retrospective planning application for the new structure and ordered Gurwinder Singh to pull it down after they received 95 complaints from residents.

Committee Chairman Mike Bird said it was an extremely serious situation, and that an extension was approved and what they got was a brand new house to the disadvantage of the adjacent neighbour. He said that Walsall Council was going to put ‘force’ back into enforcement.

He said that he was sick and tired of seeing breaches of planning regulations around the borough because people believe that they can do it, and the committee is now telling them that they can’t do it because they won’t let them and that when they find out, they will prosecute them.

He said that adjoining neighbours have suffered hell. That there’s been a lack of co-operation from day one and that he welcomed the enforcement, and that they’ve got to be shown to make a stand against people who believe they can build anything they like in relation to the planning permission they receive.

Frank Whiteley, Senior planning enforcement officer said ordering a demolition was a last resort, but he added that it would be extremely difficult to change the current structure which would be similar to demolition.

Residents living near the house, which sits on the corner of Sandringham Avenue and Arundel Road, welcomed the decision.

One neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, said: ‘I think it’s right that he should tear it down. They said why should anyone get away with breaking the rules. That the house was huge and looked like a horrible monster mansion, and that none of the other houses in the area were that big.

This monster of a house was no doubt developed for his extended family who clearly haven’t arrived yet, perhaps fresh off the boat.

Let’s hear it for the council – singh out loud.

However, you could also say the same about the billionaires and their sub-basement extensions.

Sadly some people believe they can get away with anything. The house looks like a pile of rubbish and perhaps it was a good decision to pull it down.

The house is hideous and looks extremely out of place, and this is yet another story of people not following the rules. Generally, if you ask nicely, and in the right way, you can get planning permission for quite a lot.

The house really looked lovely before Mr Singh destroyed it, and I wonder who the builders were? They must have been some rather dodgy builders because clearly, they weren’t following compliant plans from the council.

Sadly people are doing it everywhere, and Mr Singh was apparently another self-entitled fool who believed the law didn’t apply to him.

Madonna’s Bizarre TikTok Video Raises Eyebrows As Fans Become Concerned About Her Unsettling Appearance

It seems she may have been channelling Madonna, who recently revealed an interesting look with a TikTok filter

A TikTok video shared by Madonna before the Grammy Awards on Sunday has become a cause for concern for fans who were upset about her appearance.

Madge is seen in the less than 15-second clip in a thin top with no bra, chains and plaits puckering up and leaning into the camera.

Fan flooded the comments with questions about the 63-year-olds excessively swollen lips and puffy cheekbones which appeared to be the work of a video filter.

Set to music, Madonna appears in a selfie-style clip with a face morphing filter that seemed to comically enhance her features and turned her brown eyes a milky slate grey.

The Material Girl crooner is braless in a thin black T-shirt accessorised with layers of silver and diamond jewellery.

Her blond hair is braided into several plaits and she has small clips studding her platinum locks.

Madonna’s video has already been viewed more than 8 million times on the social media platform but the response hasn’t all been positive.

One follower commented that her appearance left them unsettled while others asked what she had done to herself and asked if she was on anything and that she should get some help and that sentiment was mirrored by a fourth who asked if she was alright.

One who regularly embraces social media, Madonna has often posted bizarre and revealing, sometimes lewd content.

The adverse remarks don’t appear to concern the idol either, and she was back on TikTok on Monday morning using a glowing new filter for a video set to her new remix Frozen, featuring 070 Shake.

She recently starred in a music video for the modern remix of her 1998 classic Frozen.

The remix is primarily handled by rapper and singer 070 Sake as Madonna didn’t seem to contribute any new vocals to the tune.

The latest remix of Frozen isn’t the first time Madonna has surrendered the limelight to a younger artist on the same track.

In March, she stood almost stationary in another Sickick inspired remix of Frozen, this time featuring lyrics from singer Fireboy DML.

The producers initially achieved a hit on TikTok back in December with his trip-hop inspired take on the song, which was feat.

Madonna was an extremely beautiful young woman back in the day, but over the years she’s got older and is starting to look her age, although now, she’s looking more like an alien, which is rather heartbreaking.

Now you can see the incision scars on her eyelids and the needle marks on her bottom lip and it’s not the Madonna we once knew, that girl has long gone, and now it looks like the outside matches the inside now.

Madonna has a tremendous fan base. I just wish she would realise that she’s attractive without all of this silliness. At the moment she just looks scary, but if her plan was to look absolutely nothing like her actual self and more alienesque, then she nailed it.

Madonna is obviously liked all around the world, but these images were funny and you can’t help but laugh at them, and I really do hope that it gave her the attention that she desired.

Madonna was once an electrifying unique beauty who apparently doesn’t remember how gorgeous she was back then, and perhaps she should look at herself in the mirror because if she did, she wouldn’t recognise herself, and this is all extremely sad because there will be people out there wondering if she’s mentally all there.

‘DUMPED BY EMAIL,’ Says Emily Bridges’ Mother

British Cycling has announced it will ban trans cyclists from racing after suspending its policy following the ongoing debate

The mother of Emily Bridges has promised to take suitable measures after British Cycling reported it will ban transgender cyclists from racing following the suspension of its policy on the matter.

In a statement, the body said the existing policy, which permits trans women to compete in female races if their testosterone levels are below five nanomoles per litre for a period of 12 months, is unfair to all women riders and said a full review would take place in the coming weeks.

The statement added that they understood there were problems concerning the extent to which their existing policy properly reflected the Sports Councils’ Equity Group guidance.

The body has also confirmed it will consult women and the transgender and non-binary communities, as they aspire to provide all within their sport with the transparency and understanding they deserve.

Sandy, Bridges’ mother, however, responded soon after the statement was made public, claiming she’d been dumped in her email inbox, and confirmed the family would make a statement of their own in the next 24 hours.

In a reply to another tweet from a private account, she responded that she would take action, the proper action.

British Cycling had originally cleared transgender cyclist Bridges to ride before the Union Cyclist Internationale (UCI) interceded and prohibited the rider from competing in the British National Omnium Championships last Saturday.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson then joined the transgender controversy on Wednesday when he said that he didn’t believe that biological men should be competing in female sporting events.

Bridges previously received funding of at least £8,000 when she was on British Cycling’s senior academy as a male rider named Zach as recently as 2020.

After beginning hormone therapy last year, she now wants to compete in women’s events but was thwarted last week by the UCI, which has assembled an expert panel to examine her case ahead of a decision next month.

UK Sport however defied Boris Johnson by announcing they would be willing to give public funding to Bridges if she’s cleared to race in women’s events.

UK Sport chief executive Sally Munday said that they would support every or any athlete who a sport or governing body has considered to have prospective potential and is suitable to compete.

She said that with regards to what is said politically, they’ve been transparent in their guidance and that it’s down to sports to determine what the regulations should be.

In recent years numerous trans athletes have started to partake in competitive sports, but it appears that society hasn’t become as progressive as one might think.

There have been many that have applauded this change, but the inclusion of trans athletes in professional competition remains positively contentious with many stressing unfair advantages between trans and cis athletes, and because of this, existing regulations regarding the inclusion of trans athletes are highly challenged and research on the effects of gender-affirming hormones on trans athletes is widely lacking.

The study strives to examine current research on the long term effects of androgens and estrogens on trans athletes and offer insight into the future of trans athletes in professional sports. This was primarily done through a review of Robert et al.’s (2020) study and supplemented with various other contemporary studies.

Robert et al.’s (2020) longitudinal study of 29 trans men and 46 trans women in the US Air Force revealed that while gender-affirming hormones minimised the athletic gap between trans and cis athletes, ergogenic effects during puberty produced inherent advantages that couldn’t be altered by hormone exposure later in life.

Britons Face Tax Hikes… But Not In No 11

Rishi Sunak is scrambling to suppress a row over his billionaire heiress wife’s non-dom status amid claims she could have evaded millions of pounds in UK tax.

Akshata Murthy, whose father is one of India’s wealthiest men, is facing scrutiny after it emerged she’s kept the status despite living in 11 Downing Street with the Chancellor and their children.

It means she was not liable for tax on overseas earnings, including dividends from her father’s company that reportedly came to £11.6 million last year. That sum could have meant £4.4 million to HMRC.

A spokeswoman for Ms Murthy pointed out she is an Indian citizen and stressed she pays UK taxes on UK income. There’s no indication any laws or rules had been violated.

Nevertheless, reforms brought in by the Tory government in 2015 stated that non-dom status was intended to help those from overseas who come to the United Kingdom but don’t plan to remain here permanently.

Shadow business secretary Ed Miliband acknowledged that the arrangements were legal but pointed out the government was making Britons pay more tax after the national insurance hike came in.

He told Sky News that he is the UK Chancellor asking people to pay more taxes, so was it right that his immediate family was sheltering from UK taxes? And that Rishi Sunak and his family should reflect on that.

Mr Miliband also sparked questions by suggesting non-dom status should have been repealed by the last Labour government, although it’s not clear whether that’s the party’s present position.

Boris Johnson blanked questions about Mrs Murthy on a visit to Somerset, saying that as far as they possibly could in politics it was a good thing to steer clear of wives and families in political debate, but in a round of interviews, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the emphasis on Ms Murthy was totally unjust, repeating similar comments from Mr Sunak last week.

Questioned if she was sheltering herself from tax, Mr Kwarteng said he didn’t believe that was true at all and that sheltering sounded as if you were avoiding things.

He said that he believed that she’d been extremely clear, very transparent and that the Chancellor had been extremely transparent, and that this non-dom status had been part of the UK tax system for more than 200 years.

A spokeswoman for the Chancellor’s wife said Akshata Murthy was a citizen of India, the land of her birth and parents’ home.

Rishi Sunak should be made to resign over this debacle.

His wife lives in Downing Street, is married to a man who decides how much tax we pay, and it’s extremely curious that she can dodge one tax, live in the heart of London, in the heart of Government, but claims she doesn’t for tax.

This tax loophole is only legal based on temporary residence. Does this mean that she’s going to leave Rishi Sunak in the near future? It seems extremely unlikely, thus she should consider becoming a permanent citizen so that she can be taxed accordingly.

In order to be exempt, you can only live in the United Kingdom for a certain amount of time. She has lived here continuously since 2018, and this is what people are upset about because it appears there are two laws, one for the wealthy and one for the poor.

Of course, Rishi Sunak will not resign, nor will the Prime Minister for lying to Parliament. When will the penny drop that our present cabinet isn’t even trying to hide their true colours, whilst they cheerfully tax the little people, whilst dodging paying it themselves?

The First Indoor Beach In Britain Will Open In 2025

Work on an extensive new £250 million indoor waterpark in Manchester will begin next year, with the centre opening in 2025.

The park, called Therme Manchester, will feature living water slides, a wave pool and swim-up bars, and has been developed to increase visitors’ mental health and wellbeing.

Located opposite the Trafford Centre on the Event City site, it’s predicted to attract up to two million visitors per year within five years, which would make it the most visited based attraction in Europe.

The next-generation water park will even include immersive digital art, an on-site farm and botanical gardens, all sitting inside glass domes.

The park, which is being billed as the UK’s first city-based wellbeing resort, will cover 28 acres, the size of 19 football pitches.

It was due to open in late 2023 but has been moved back two years and revised plans will be presented to Trafford Council in the summer.

Stelian Iacob, senior vice present of Therme Group Worldwide and CEO of Therme Group UK told a newspaper outlet that their commitment to bring Therme Manchester to the United Kingdom was as strong as ever. He said that expert independent studies had shown the hugely favourable economic and social influence that Therme Manchester would have, helping to create jobs, economic wealth and bringing health and wellbeing to the everyday lives of millions of visitors.

Inside, its extensive family zone will include 35 slides, indoor and outdoor pools, a steam room and exotic palm tree relaxation areas.

The dedicated adult’s area will have warm water lagoons, therapeutic mineral baths and steam rooms and saunas.

There will also be a daily programme of water-based fitness classes as well as yoga, pilates and meditation sessions.

According to the plans, a broad range of well-being treatments will also be available as well as advanced body scanners and professional therapists.

There will also be a range of bars, cafes and restaurants, offering everything from snacks and light bites to à la carte service.

The site will also have a visitor and education centre designed for school and community groups. It has been included in a bid to teach people about health, sustainability, food and nature.

The central focus of the project will be a two-acre well-being garden in the form of a rose.

The developer, the Therme Group, explained that this biodiverse garden for all seasons will be an evolving work of art, with petal-shaped terraces and stunning pools and water features. It will serve as a focal point for socialising, learning and discovery.

Jeeze, at this rate people, will be moving in because it will be more affordable than heating their own homes.

Manchester is known as a bit of a cesspit, but what people don’t know about this part of Manchester is that it has massive shopping malls, indoor skiing, skydiving centre, golf range et cetera, and there are already a bunch of people visiting this region of Manchester and there are two massive football clubs within a couple of miles which get approximately 70 thousand visitors every week, it can’t be all that bad.

It’s all very good opening this, however, living locally they will need to sort out the already crowded roads around the Trafford Centre.

This site will be a considerable biosphere and it will require an abundance of light otherwise there will be germs, no heat, no sunlight and numerous people will say no thanks.

In theory, it sounds amazing, but in fact, a bunch of brawling tattooed Mancunians peeing in the pools really doesn’t sound like the most attractive place to visit.

The Finns Will Decide If They Will Join NATO

Finland may make the call on whether to join NATO only weeks following Russia’s attack on Ukraine, with a decision likely during this spring.

The country may join the transatlantic military alliance despite warnings of retaliation and military and political consequences from the Kremlin.

Prime Minister Sanna Marin this weekend said that both joining NATO and not joining are choices that have consequences. She said that they need to consider both the short term and long term effects, but at the same time, they must keep in mind their goal, ensuring the safety of Finland and Finns in all situations.

Sanna Marin added that Finland’s association with neighbouring Russia had altered irreversibly after the attack on Ukraine and that it takes a lot of time and work for trust to be restored.

Finland shares an 830 mile (1,340 kilometre) border with Russia, the longest by any European Union member.

It has remained military non aligned, therefore not engaging in combat or warfare, since the end of the Cold War for fear of provoking Moscow.

This weekend the country’s foreign minister Pekka Haavisto said Russia’s activities in Ukraine have completely altered the security geography in Finland.

He told Kyodo News that Finland must be prepared for more negative military tactics.

This comes despite indications of retaliation from Moscow should the nation join NATO.

Last month a Russian politician warned of serious military and political consequences if Finland and Sweden joined the alliance.

Russian Foreign Ministry Second European Department Director Sergei Belyayev told Interfax that it was evident that Finland and Sweden’s joining NATO, which is a military alliance in the first place, would have profound military and political consequences requiring use to revise the entire range of relations with those nations and take retaliatory measures.

Last month Finland also noticed interference with passenger jet’s GPS signals near Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave and the country’s eastern border with Moscow.

Finnish airline Finnair said its pilots had noticed the disturbances near Kaliningrad, which is sandwiched between NATO members Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic Sea’s east coast.

Other aircraft reported unusual disturbances in GPS signals near Finland’s eastern border with Russia, with aircraft unable to disembark at Savonlinna airport due to the interference.

In February Helsinki also received letters from Russia, requesting clarity on the Nordic nation’s future concerning security.

Haavisto then told a newspaper outlet the instance reminded him of the Cold War when the country was used to this sort of Russian letter asking for consultations.

In December 2019, Marin was nominated by the Social Democratic Party to succeed Antti Rinne as the Prime Minister of Finland, but Antti Rinne formally remained party leader until June 2020.

In a narrow vote, Marin conquered Antti Lindtman.

The majority of ministers in her five-party cabinet are women, numbering 12 out of 19 at the time of the cabinet’s formation, and she’s the third female head of government in Finland, after Anneli Jäätteenmäki and Mari Kiviniemi.

Upon her confirmation by Parliament at the age of 34, she became Finland’s youngest-ever prime minister and was the youngest serving state leader until Sebastian Kurz regained the title in January 2020.

Vladimir Putin has started the most senseless conflict in history and quite clearly Finland isn’t going to let Vladimir Putin’s threats discourage them, but how will this end?

Is there anyone foolish enough to take Vladimir Putin out because he clearly seems to have lost his mind, and shouldn’t be allowed to stay in power?

The US has made it extremely apparent it has no interest in becoming a direct participant in the war and of course, any removal by force of a foreign head of state would definitely qualify as an act of war.

Some people are asking if we are close to World War III. Well, some analysts are saying that we’re already there and have been for several years, and the rationale is that a 21st-century world war would look significantly different to those of the 20th century.

For now, NATO is managing to stay out of it, ensuring it stays a conflict between Ukraine and Russia, but given that NATO is giving arms to Ukraine, conducting cyber offensive attacks and has launched an all-out economic war, it’s not unreasonable to believe that we’re already in a form of conflict with Russia.

If Vladimir Putin is eventually found guilty of war crimes, how will they go about bringing him and his associates to justice? Well, assuming that Vladimir Putin is removed from office and survives, then his successor might decide to hand him over for trial at the International Criminal Court, but Vladimir Putin will always retain some supporters in Russia, whatever happens, so the possibility of seeing Vladimir Putin in court one day is extremely slim.

And of course, the very worst-case scenario that could happen with Vladimir Putin’s special military operation is that there could be a nuclear attack, ordered by Vladimir Putin in an act of desperation to try to ensure a Russian victory.

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