The following is a Russian article by Victoria Nikiforova.

Her observations are made in the context of the UK government being engaged in a proxy war with Russia that involves sending military strategists, thousands of missiles and £1.3Bn some of which is claimed to be for humanitarian purposes. It has imposed widespread sanctions on Russia that harm the British people but have little impact on Russia and it has done this while there is hardship in Britain, hence the title of her article.

She brilliantly refers to 'Our British partners - or, more honestly, strategic opponents.'

She is familiar with Greek mythology and compares Ukraine to Danae, a reference to this Greek myth.

The Marshall Plan was the US investment in Europe after WW2.

Schmeissers and Haenels are German guns, Iskanders and Kalibrs are missiles and Drang nach Osten was a motto of German nationalists in the 19th century relating to German territorial expansion into eastern Europe and Slavic nations.

Britain carefully guards its main secret A market in London   © AFP 2022 / Justin Tallis Victoria Nikiforova All materials 16 May 2022 Our British partners - or, more honestly, strategic opponents? - a military secret has appeared. I'll share it with you now. The situation is that the inhabitants of the former "golden billion", including the British, are beginning to starve. However, it is considered indecent to discuss this problem. Both the British tabloids, the news broadcasts and the intellectual media are packed today The Windsors, the Kardashians, the lawsuit Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, but the fact that the citizens of one of the richest countries in the world have nothing to eat - this topic is avoided by local journalists. In the info field sometimes surprising numbers slip by. According to a recent survey, for example, 14 percent of Britons are hungry, or malnourished, or see this in their family. Well, relatively speaking, the mother skips dinner so that there is enough food for the children. During the week, a remark from a top manager of a large retail chain miraculously got on the air. "We're losing customers," he said honestly. "They either go out for free food or just go hungry." This, of course, seriously breaks all the templates. No, stories about the milk Thames with jelly banks remained somewhere in the holy 90s, but still the UK positions itself as one of the richest countries in the world. And here it is. Well-known blogger Jack Monroe (yes, she is a woman, but she has problems with gender identification and sexual orientation, so she is Jack), so, well-known blogger Jack Monroe, specializing in the topic of food availability, says in her column in the Guardian that a pensioner wrote to her in social networks and told her that in the evenings instead of eating dinner, he chews and swallows a little toothpaste "to get some taste in his mouth." Jack promised she wouldn't let it go, but her column is three and a half months old and the situation has only gotten worse since then. Note that the explosive price growth in Britain began in 2021, long before the special operation Russia on Ukraine. Now anti-Russian sanctions are accelerating the process that was launched much earlier. The same Jack Monroe exposed the official statistics on inflation. In 2021, it was announced at 5.4 percent. But real prices for the cheapest and most popular goods have increased two to three times. Broth cubes have risen tenfold over the past few years. The spring rise in the price of everything - especially food - has led to the fact that millions of British households were faced with a choice: what to pay for? For light or heating? For medicine or food? "We have become much less likely to take a shower, turn off the lights all the time. And even when it's cold, we don't turn on the heating, " Francisca, 64 and her 70 year old husband Colin, tell the Guardian. "We choose the cheapest products in supermarkets." Now it becomes clearer why many British pensioners moved to the United States or Spain. Yes, food and rent are much cheaper there, and even in winter it was possible to survive without heating. The pension was enough. The coronavirus pandemic has also closed this loophole. Retirees like Francisca and Colin, who rent their own homes, will soon be thrown out on the street. Why are we writing about this? Well, first of all, you need to know the real state of affairs of your partners and the Western media are afraid to cover it. Before the pandemic, the topic of food banks - free food distribution points - was one of the most popular in the British media. Many people wrote about the growth of rental rates and consequently the increase in the number of homeless people. They regularly covered such a sensitive issue as the death of tens of thousands of pensioners from hypothermia every winter: elderly people turned off the heating in their homes because they did not have enough money. Electricity bills are breaking records, food prices are skyrocketing, but the topic of impoverishment of the masses has abruptly left the information field. The British are not living well, but this is a military secret. The situation is gradually getting worse in the countries of continental Europe as well. Politicians hypocritically howl about the impending famine in African countries but stubbornly refuse to recognize the troubles and sufferings of their own citizens. Secondly, the British crisis is an important wake up call for the whole world. England remains a trend setter for the whole world and these problems will soon spread to us. You need to be prepared for this. It is necessary to fully engage the FAS to track price increases and find out whether they are caused by a real increase in production costs or a desire to cash in on consumers. Forget the enterprises that have left us and replace everything that is possible. Establish gray imports - do you remember how the shuttles saved us? The world is waging an economic war against us and we must win it by tirelessly improving people's lives. Instead of calling for militarization, mobilization and belt-tightening, we should do everything possible to ensure that we do not have the same situation as in England. Let British pensioners eat toothpaste for dinner, our pensioners should sit in a cafe on weekends and have coffee and cakes. The price tag for a loaf of bread and carton of milk is now a weapon in a global confrontation, no less important than all Iskanders and Kalibrs. In the current situation, Russia has an excellent chance of winning. By the way, the British have very good food banks, where anyone can take free products and perhaps this practice should be adopted. They also have strong volunteer and charity traditions, which we could also improve on. Assistance - the most immediate assistance with free food, water, basic necessities and clothing should be provided for the most vulnerable categories of our population and all this should work like clockwork. And third, the starved European electorate will pose a direct and immediate threat to us. Look at Ukraine. For thirty years, this country, spread out like Danae, has been waiting for the new Marshall Plan to rain down on it like a golden shower. As the years passed, there was no golden rain. On the contrary, the Western masters purposefully drove Ukraine into poverty. And what happened? In 1991, Ukraine was the richest Soviet republic. Its population was peaceful and friendly. Today, its standard of living could be called African. The impoverished population became angry and feral. Young people, not seeing any normal prospects, en masse went to the army just to have a hearty meal and send a little money to the family. Now they are fighting against Russia. It seems that over Europe, the American owners are conducting the same experiment. To what extent should it be "Weimarized" so that the starving population believe that the Russians are to blame for everything and go to the next "Drang nach Osten"? We tend to laugh at the timid attempts of Europeans to create their own army. In social networks, they are having fun with the European parts of NATO - they are too pampered, they need diapers in the cold, they are engaged in LGBT rights there, and not in marches with a full display. Europe, fattened by post-war prosperity, seemed to have forgotten how to fight at all. Well, right now, before our very eyes, the American owners are cutting off her fat from the old lady of Europe - layer by layer. When she is completely starved, she will rush to the front - to fight with whom she is ordered. What kind of effeminacy is there? Both non-lazy hipsters and brave LGBT representatives will forget about their gay parades at the moment and run to master the old "Schmeissers" and the latest "Haenels". And here, by the way, they will have a powerful industry at their service, which can be easily and quickly reformatted to meet the needs of modern warfare. A great army can turn out - no kidding. Sectarians are not starved and cold for nothing - an exhausted person is better suited to indoctrination. Burger will ask: who ate my bread and drank all the sunflower oil? And they will tell him that they are Russians. Well, he will believe it, take the Schmeisser, go to the Eastern Front. Hunger is not an aunt.

16 May 2022   RIA