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Speaking on Fox News, Keith Kellogg, formerly the National Security Advisor to former Vice President Mike Pence, remarked that if the West won’t let Ukraine have additional MiG fighter jets, they should seek anti aircraft missiles from certain NATO-member countries. The general said two Balkan countries, Greece and Bulgaria, along with fellow NATO member Slovakia, all have S-300 missile technology that itself was originally designed by Russia. “The thing they should do is go to Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Greece, which are three NATO nations, and they’ve got a system called the S-300, which is a Russian system that shoots down ballistic missiles and anti-aircraft [projectiles] as well, and put it around those point-targets and defend it,” he said. “It’d be kind of nice to have a Russian system shoot down a Russian aircraft,” he said.

Organized retailers and suppliers are in the throes of a new round of rising energy costs and commodity prices, with commodity price hikes a one-way street.

The European and world economies are facing the risk of stagflation (stagnant inflation) due to the war in Ukraine. Big increases in the costs of energy, raw materials, goods, food and transport are creating the conditions for a new big jump in inflation at a time when sanctions and inflation are threatening the economies, which were trying to recover from the big problems caused the pandemic.