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Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2
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Well, judging from the way Russia is going, they were trying to go up instead of down and make way toward Sloviansk and Kramatosk direct. Their southern drive has been stalled since late December. They were at the edge of klishchiivka back in Early to Mid-December last year, and IIRC they only claim they have taken it a week ago. At this rate, it would be around March-April before they can threaten Charvis Yar, let alone taken them.
There are plenty of time for Ukraine to hold Bakhmut.
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”or commits aiding and abetting aggression”
I already provided an excerpt of the rules that states that shipping arms to a belligerent is a violation of neutrality.
Your memory is not much bette4 than that of a small bird.
When You help an aggressor, you become an agressor.
You can argue whatever You want, but it won’t help Iran.
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Ukraine Situation Report: Russian Casualties "Significantly Well Over 100k" Says Top U.S. General
General Milley said the losses on both sides are horrendous and that it will only end via negotiation once Russia has left Ukraine.
www.thedrive.com
Some who normally have insight are mentioning that Denmark is working on getting back Leopard 1A5DK being stored at FFG in Germany. There is around 100 in storage. They dont need upgrades, just some repairs and maintenance.
Is that an alternative to ukrainian armor?
Is that an alternative to ukrainian armor?
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sure, it affects China ability to make these drug, even tho China makes most of their drug locally, and was either number 1 or number 2 world exporter.
China's pharmaceutical industry emerging as key R&D player
China's pharmaceutical industry includes generics, patented medicines, and over-the-counter (OTC) medicationsdaxueconsulting.com
Tell me, did Russia or West sanction China too? Do let me know how China affected by the War in Ukraine??
Dude, sometimes it's okay to acknowledge you are ignorant in a topic. Instead of trying to accuse someone else is stupid,, because it usually makes you look stupid. Even in your own link it said the European Drug shortage is due to supply chain issue, not the inflation or sanction issue, unless you can somehow blame COVID to the current War in Ukraine.
Again, you're failing to understand the root causes that were clearly mentioned in the Reuters' article: High energy prices. You're running away from the clearly visible causes of these high energy prices - the self-defeating sanctions that the West imposed on Russia that triggered high energy prices, which also contributed to inflation. This has also transcended to other commodities whose prices sky-rocketed as well.
"Now, the war in Ukraine and the associated energy and economic crises threaten to "debase the continent's pharmaceutical sector for good for some critical medicines," , Teva (TEVA.TA), one of the world's biggest generic drug makers, wrote in a report published on Thursday. "
Energy crisis risks upending Europe's key medicine supply chains - industry says
Surging energy costs in Europe risk accelerating an exodus of companies critical in the manufacture of essential medicines, further endangering drug supply chains hit by shortages at the height of COVID-19, drug ingredient makers say.
Stop wasting people's time if you can't read. You sound like pre-programmed robot who only repeats what is pre-recorded in him.
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3 Russian missile weapons capable of effectively countering the latest Western tanks, no matter how different their models are!.. Get to know them in this video!
- Khrizantima
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Aerial scenes of the Ukrainian army repelling an attack by the Russian forces..
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Again, explain to me how ENERGY PRICE were to blame for in this case, "Chinese Medicine Shortage"?Again, you're failing to understand the root causes that were clearly mentioned in the Reuters' article: High energy prices. You're running away from the clearly visible causes of these high energy prices - the self-defeating sanctions that the West imposed on Russia that triggered high energy prices, which also contributed to inflation. This has also transcended to other commodities whose prices sky-rocketed as well.
"Now, the war in Ukraine and the associated energy and economic crises threaten to "debase the continent's pharmaceutical sector for good for some critical medicines," , Teva (TEVA.TA), one of the world's biggest generic drug makers, wrote in a report published on Thursday. "
Energy crisis risks upending Europe's key medicine supply chains - industry says
Surging energy costs in Europe risk accelerating an exodus of companies critical in the manufacture of essential medicines, further endangering drug supply chains hit by shortages at the height of COVID-19, drug ingredient makers say.www.reuters.com
Stop wasting people's time if you can't read. You sound like pre-programmed robot who only repeats what is pre-recorded in him.
China does not have an energy price issue, drug were not made in PetroChemical
Now, going back to your own article.
Also, the article talks about how most drug has ALREADY been manufactured outside Europe and the remaining "few" were made to shut their door due to them not being economical.
This lead to the European shortage of drug in a nutshell
There were NO paracetamol production plant in Europe since 2008, are we going to blame the war in Ukraine at all?
This is the reason why Europe are running out of Paracetamol, because India temporarily banned export of ingredient, maybe you should take a guess why they ban it?? Hint, something we all went thru since 2020.
That mean only 40% of the drug were made in Europe, 60% of the drug were imported. This is already a problem with or without the war
It wouldn't make such an impact if the energy price increase 8 fold and productiononly dropped 25-30%. Given that only 40% of the drug are made in Europe anyway. That is not that much to have global shortage across Europe.
You really should have read your article before using it. That article basically said the situation was already bad before the war, as most of the API drug are outside Europe, and then COVID hit, where international export started limited their shipment, and COUPLE WITH THE WAR OF UKRAINE, it increase the cost and make the situation worse
If you couple that with the situation where country like India (which was talked about in the article you supply) and China (which was talked about in the article I supplies). Whereas both country were largely unaffected by the War and Sanction by both side, it's very straight forward point is that both, being the biggest maker of API drug, has have seen their drug stockpile wipe out since COVID and both stop exporting their API ingredient because they don't have enough for themselves, and that is the reason why Europe is short on drug. That's because 60% of those drug were made in a 3rd country outside EU (most likely just in China and India)
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NATO Secretary General: The war in Ukraine is not just a European crisis, but a challenge to the world order..
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NATO Secretary General: Russia's victory in Ukraine will encourage China against its neighbors
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HIMARS with GLSDB launch would be almost like air support since they cover all Russian occupied territory except Crimea as JDAM alternative for now...
Not to mention able to provide the parts provided from the Sierra depot like gun barrels to tracks to roadwheels, etc.
That is surprising. Guess it would be cheaper and less time consuming than having to convert U.S. own tanks to non DU armor version.
Best alternative for F-16s for now.
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A dollar???
You should use this wonderful American invention call 'the internet'...
You talked as if there are no precedents. There are, and to be fair, I will use the US as a negative example.
The Legality of Weapons Transfers to Ukraine Under International Law
Abstract This article analyses the legality of Western states providing weapons to Ukraine. It focuses on five areas of international law: (1) the jus ad bellum; (2) the law of neutrality; (3) international humanitarian law; (4) state responsibility for complicity in internationally wrongful...brill.com
Providing weapons to Ukraine constitutes the use of force against Russia. In the Nicaragua case, the International Court of Justice (icj) specifically held that the United States’ (US) ‘arming and training’ of the contras ‘can certainly be said to involve the… use of force against Nicaragua’.12 Although the Court was addressing a non-international armed conflict, not an international one, ‘the logic of the Court’s holding arguably applies equally to iac, for if arming and training a non-State group fighting a State is a use of force… why would it not also be a use of force to provide arms to another State engaging in hostilities against that State?’
Basically, the ICJ ruled that the US arming rebel groups -- the contras -- constitutes aggression against Nicaragua. But not only has the ICJ, but members of this forum opined that the US did committed 'aggression' against Nicaragua during the Cold War. So if the US was the aggressor against Nicaragua even though the US never sent troops, the US today is a belligerent against Russia by providing weapons to Ukraine.
Providing Ukraine with weapons thus cannot be considered an internationally wrongful act – a conclusion supported by Art. 21 of the Articles on State Responsibility, which provides that ‘[t]he wrongfulness of an act of a State is precluded if the act constitutes a lawful measure of self- defence taken in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations’.
So even though the US and allies are technically 'belligerents' against Russia, their collective actions cannot be considered 'wrongful' because Russia was the first 'aggressor' of the war, and since Ukraine has the moral right to self defense, Ukraine also has the moral right to call for help, and anyone responding to that call realizes what they are entering into.
3.1 What Actions Violate the Law of Neutrality?
Excellent question. Let us see...
The fundamental principle of the law of neutrality is that a neutral state is prohibited from providing any kind of support to a belligerent that is capable of influencing the outcome of the armed conflict.
This principle is not new. It is actually common sense and has been so since warfare began who knows how long ago. If you claimed neutrality, you stay out of the fight.
Providing Ukraine with intelligence used to target Russian military objectives almost certainly violates the duty of impartiality.32 The US may well be engaged in such intelligence sharing, despite its insistence that it is ‘not providing the kind of real-time targeting’ that ‘steps over the line’ but is instead simply sharing information that helps Ukraine ‘inform and develop their military response to Russia’s invasion’.
Currently, there are uncertainties as to whether intelligence constitutes DIRECT support or indirect support. That is why the words 'almost certainly' with emphasis on 'almost' because no one agreed -- so far -- as to the effectiveness of intelligence in the first place. Which is worse, scaring you to death or actually stab you to death? How long would it take to scare you to death? Scaring you to death actually take more resources and time. That was the Cold War. The US and allies essentially scared the Soviet Union to death.
What I gave you is an excellent article with analyses on the Russia-Ukraine War. The bottom line is that IF Iran sold Russia any form of weaponry, Iran is an 'aggressor' against Ukraine.
I can't believe we are still arguing the last few pages about who is and isn't an aggressor. At the end of the day, this shit doesn't matter, and let both sides continue killing.
