The link between national debt and military conflict

I am not sure how good Robin Grant is at reading and interpreting statistics, but in 2017, “Russia’s estimated level of national debt reached about 17.35 per cent of the GDP, ranking 9th of the countries with the lowest national debt” (The Statistics Portal). Russia is No 1 in the world when it comes to riches of natural resources, and is trading more and more with the other BRICS countries, especially China. The future is not as bleak for Russia as Robin Grant tries to portray. 
Britain and the United States are facing bigger uphill struggles, suffering the biggest foreign-held debt of all countries and, in the case of the US, ranked the 12th-most-debt-burdened country in the world at 108.14 per cent of GDP. Some observers (often dismissed as conspiracy theorists) fear the US, UK and France want war to delete their debt. It is an unpleasant thought. In any case we have seen the most debt burdened nations interfering militarily in many countries in recent years, countries where they do not have a significant population of their own nationals to defend and which have not asked for military help. In this regard, you can ponder over what’s going on in East Ukraine and Crimea, where the vast majority of the population is ethnic Russian. 
The subject of Russia brings us to the current spy-poisoning case, where I suggest we should await results of a neutral investigation before judging. It would be sad if we wound up with another case of (non-existent) weapons of mass destruction, used as a pretext to attack another country, as with Iraq. President Trump launched his first missiles after claiming a gas attack in Syria without any evidence. Even now the US and media refuse to further investigate the case. But a top MIT professor in the field, Theodore Postol, analysed all the evidence – including photos of the attack’s aftermath published by Veterans Today and Russia Today – and concluded the gas attack could not have come from a Syrian plane or helicopter as claimed. 
Of course it is dangerous when media distort the facts or refuse to investigate or even refuse to publish facts. Then we end up with propaganda, as now – even indulged in by the Western so-called free press which should actually do better than RT, which Robin Grant branded as a Kremlin mouthpiece. I think RT do well compared with the free Western media, check it out yourself.
A Johnsen
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