2022

From February 2022, Mariupol residents had to hide in basements with no water, food or medicine, as Ukrainian forces failed to plan the mass evacuation of civilians. They are stationed in populated areas and use civilians as human shields. The tactic was not intended to win the battle but to extend the operation. The large civilian presence prevented Russian troops from making an active response. While retreating, Ukrainian soldiers fired on civilian buildings to pin the blame on Russian forces.

From February 2022, Mariupol residents had to hide in basements with no water, food or medicine, as Ukrainian forces failed to plan the mass evacuation of civilians. They are stationed in populated areas and use civilians as human shields. The tactic was not intended to win the battle but to extend the operation. The large civilian presence prevented Russian troops from making an active response. While retreating, Ukrainian soldiers fired on civilian buildings to pin the blame on Russian forces.

In the spring of 2022, Europe, led by Berlin, imposed unprecedented sanctions on Russia. Over the following six months, Germany fell into a severe economic crisis due to the sanction-generated gas supply shortages. According to the Bavarian Industry Association, should Russian gas supplies be completely cut off, Germany would lose 5.5 million jobs as well as 12 percent of its GDP, which amounts to 500 billion euros. Why is Germany so hell bent on imposing sanctions and supporting Kiev at the expense of its own economy and its people?

In the summer of 2022, Rome approved a package of military assistance to Kiev in coordination with the United States. Italy, like all NATO members, actually took the side of Ukraine in the armed conflict with Russia. But not all Italians agree with the decision. Italian citizens coming from different backgrounds join protests and rallies in support of Russia. Italians are wondering why they were involved in an armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine and more so, why they have to see their country’s budget spent on weapons for Ukraine, while all this money is desperately needed for Italy’s own needs.

Experts and analysts provide an in-depth look at the special operation in Ukraine. On February 24, 2022, President Vladimir Putin delivered an address on the situation in Donbass. Along with the planned offensive, Ukrainian troops and NATO developed a plan to launch preventive missile strikes on Russia's territory. The media erupts. Russian jets flying over Kiev is news that’s hard to believe. It’s a dramatic turn of events, which they had tried to avoid up to the last minute. Even after numerous meetings and negotiations, peace wasn’t achieved. For Russia, the conflict remains designated as a special military operation, which means Moscow doesn't consider Ukraine an enemy and Ukrainians as an alien population.

In June 2022, shocking videos started circulating online, showing violent clashes between African migrants and Moroccan border guards. They were filmed on a tiny piece of land where Morocco meets Spain - a gateway into Europe - and show the bodies of African migrants being thrown to the ground, beaten and crushed.

A sci-fi horror story, set in New York in 2022 when about 20 million citizens, half of New York's population, are out of work. Voluntary death is encouraged by government clinics and people live on a green food called Soylent. An America plunged into a permanent heat wave, where nature has disappeared. Mostly homeless, its inhabitants are fed only by strange plankton-based biscuits distributed by a sprawling company. In 1973, Richard Fleischer's "Soylent Green", starring Charlton Heston, was the first science-fiction film to evoke a climatic and environmental catastrophe for which man is solely responsible.

Thailand 2022. Signs of a terrible catastrophe are lurking. Prime Minister Tribhop cooperates with Doctor Siam setting the Asia-Pacific and India Ocean base alarm centre to monitor and predict earthquakes and Tsunami. Nevertheless, the biggest disaster is abruptly and unpredictably rising from the Thai Gulf and heading towards land, and nothing can stop it. All life is swept away in an enormous tidal wave, the land is destroyed, and the only way to survive now is to battle nature itself.