British taxpayers funding Russia's 'future leaders' (Independent)

[pellinore]

Having turned its back on its own continent, the UK is now desperate to forge new alliances. Money well spent?

Rishi Sunak has been accused of aiding Vladimir Putin’s regime over the government’s plans to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money training up the next generation of Russian leaders.

Britain barred Russians from applying to the Chevening scholarship programme – a fully funded masters degree aimed at “emerging leaders” from all over the world – after Mr Putin invaded Ukraine two years ago.

But, despite the conflict still going on – and Britain ramping up sanctions on Moscow in response to the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny – The Independent can reveal that the scheme has been reopened to applicants from Russia.

Fury over foreign aid budget being used to train Russia’s future leaders at British universities | The Independent

Edited February 26 by pellinore

[Destination Unknown]

53 minutes ago, pellinore said:

Having turned its back on its own continent, the UK is now desperate to forge new alliances. Money well spent?

Rishi Sunak has been accused of aiding Vladimir Putin’s regime over the government’s plans to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money training up the next generation of Russian leaders.

Britain barred Russians from applying to the Chevening scholarship programme – a fully funded masters degree aimed at “emerging leaders” from all over the world – after Mr Putin invaded Ukraine two years ago.

But, despite the conflict still going on – and Britain ramping up sanctions on Moscow in response to the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny – The Independent can reveal that the scheme has been reopened to applicants from Russia.

Fury over foreign aid budget being used to train Russia’s future leaders at British universities | The Independent

And this would be the very same 'The (Not So) Independent' that is owned by Alexander Lebedev, a Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer, who staunchly advocated we should vote Remain in a blatant anti-Brexit pro-EU propaganda hit piece published on the very day of the referendum titled, quote: "The right choice is to remain" would it? 🤔

Yeah, I'll take the impartiality of anything they've got to say with a grain of salt the size of the Dead Sea then. 🤦

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/the-right-choice-is-to-remain-a7090326.html

 

Edited February 26 by Destination Unknown

[pellinore]

14 minutes ago, Destination Unknown said:

And this would be the very same 'The (Not So) Independent' that is owned by Alexander Lebedev, a Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer, who staunchly advocated we should vote Remain in a blatant anti-Brexit pro-EU propaganda hit piece published on the very day of the referendum titled, quote: "The right choice is to remain" would it? 🤔

Yeah, I'll take the impartiality of anything they've got to say with a grain of salt the size of the Dead Sea then. 🤦

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/the-right-choice-is-to-remain-a7090326.html

 

Of course we should have voted to Remain. If we had, we wouldn't be up **** creek right now. What's your point?

[Destination Unknown]

2 hours ago, pellinore said:

Of course we should have voted to Remain. If we had, we wouldn't be up **** creek right now. What's your point?

My point is that you are obviously quite clearly hinting that a post-Brexit UK is now doing Putin's bidding, just because it says so in a "newspaper" that is owned by a Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer that staunchly advocated we should vote Remain. And you can't see the irony.!! 🤦

And I'll ask you again pellinore, for the umpteenth time, what sort of future EU would we have actually been remaining in, because one thing is definitely certain, the EU of the future will not look anything like the EU of 2016 when we had that vote, just like the EU of 2016 is completely unrecognisable to the EEC the UK joined in 1973. And don't start with the usual vague Remoaner blanket answer of: "The EU can only become what its members agree it can become" nonsense either.

It may come as a bit of a shock to you pellinore, but not everyone is like you and wants to see their country consumed into one large lump of European "states" where we would ultimately be answerable to a Politburo based in Brussels. See link below: "EU should be ‘single megastate’, says former Italian Prime Minister and former President of the European Central Bank (Super) Mario Draghi" 👇👇👇👇

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/12/01/mario-draghi-european-union-single-megastate-italy/

(Note: The above link is from the Telegraph, you know, the exact same Telegraph that you yourself claimed elsewhere on here was the gospel of truth, and should be taken as such - Article: Brexit fallout finally dawns on London’s stock market (Telegraph) https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/373804-brexit-fallout-finally-dawns-on-london’s-stock-market-telegraph/)

Edited February 26 by Destination Unknown

[Alchopwn]

9 hours ago, pellinore said:

Having turned its back on its own continent, the UK is now desperate to forge new alliances. Money well spent?

Rishi Sunak has been accused of aiding Vladimir Putin’s regime over the government’s plans to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money training up the next generation of Russian leaders.

If you are indoctrinating a new generation of Russians who favor democracy over totalitarianism, it might be money very well spent.

[pellinore]

40 minutes ago, Alchopwn said:

If you are indoctrinating a new generation of Russians who favor democracy over totalitarianism, it might be money very well spent.

I agree that closer ties with the West should be beneficial (Germany obviously thought so too). But Putin's regime seems to have turned its back firmly on the West. And it is foreign aid money:

But, despite the conflict still going on – and Britain ramping up sanctions on Moscow in response to the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny – The Independent can reveal that the scheme has been reopened to applicants from Russia.

The prime minister is now facing calls to reverse the decision, with MPs and campaigners criticising the decision to use foreign aid money in this way. One MP said: “It will only possibly benefit apparatchiks of Putin’s regime.”

Bill Browder, the US anti-corruption campaigner, told The Independent it is “highly inappropriate” to reinstate the scheme.

[Duke Wellington]

4 hours ago, pellinore said:

I agree that closer ties with the West should be beneficial (Germany obviously thought so too). But Putin's regime seems to have turned its back firmly on the West. And it is foreign aid money:

But, despite the conflict still going on – and Britain ramping up sanctions on Moscow in response to the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny – The Independent can reveal that the scheme has been reopened to applicants from Russia.

The prime minister is now facing calls to reverse the decision, with MPs and campaigners criticising the decision to use foreign aid money in this way. One MP said: “It will only possibly benefit apparatchiks of Putin’s regime.”

Bill Browder, the US anti-corruption campaigner, told The Independent it is “highly inappropriate” to reinstate the scheme.

Oh the idiocrasy present in our media. They haven`t even kept up with how two days ago Ukrainian media themselves confirmed he died of a blood clot in the heart, not murder. He was the right age for someone with heart disease to have had their `first event`.

We should cut Ukraine loose and spend the money on our own people. They have lost, we are not having WW3 to change the outcome, nothing more can be done. Plus it will get the inflation quickly back to normal once sanctions are lifted.

[Alchopwn]

17 hours ago, pellinore said:

I agree that closer ties with the West should be beneficial (Germany obviously thought so too). But Putin's regime seems to have turned its back firmly on the West. And it is foreign aid money:

But, despite the conflict still going on – and Britain ramping up sanctions on Moscow in response to the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny – The Independent can reveal that the scheme has been reopened to applicants from Russia.

The prime minister is now facing calls to reverse the decision, with MPs and campaigners criticising the decision to use foreign aid money in this way. One MP said: “It will only possibly benefit apparatchiks of Putin’s regime.”

Bill Browder, the US anti-corruption campaigner, told The Independent it is “highly inappropriate” to reinstate the scheme.

Well then if the scheme is a failure, it is obviously time to cut the funding.   I hope that the UK hasn't got a similar program going with China.  The FBI are presently weeding the spies out of US tertiary education because of Confucius Institutes infiltrating US research campuses.