Ukraine counter offensive
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There was a conference in the Ukraine recently attended by various international legal experts
One item on the agenda was bringing in a law for crimes of aggression against a country
Basically aimed at leaders of countries
Ie Putin and the Russian leadership would be tried for aggression against the Ukranian state ?
All very noble but what about past issues wars / invasions ect ect
Bush / Blair / Iraq
That could be deemed as “ aggression” maybe ???
One item on the agenda was bringing in a law for crimes of aggression against a country
Basically aimed at leaders of countries
Ie Putin and the Russian leadership would be tried for aggression against the Ukranian state ?
All very noble but what about past issues wars / invasions ect ect
Bush / Blair / Iraq
That could be deemed as “ aggression” maybe ???
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Ait gonna happen though.
So, does it matter?
Poots' missiles matter, the Kinzal is unstoppable unless, perhaps, the site happens to be defended by the few Patriot systems they have.
Newsweek:
General Vadym Skibitsky, Ukraine's deputy intelligence chief, told The New York Times earlier this month: "According to our calculations, they have missiles for another three to five waves of attacks...if there are 80 to 90 rockets in one wave."
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said in early November that Russia had used up 63 percent of its pre-war stock of 500 Kalibrs. Between February and November, Reznikov said Russia was able to produce 120 new Kalibr missiles.
According to his figures, Russia is also running relatively low on Iskander ballistic missiles having used 87 percent of its 900 pre-war missiles; and its Kh-22/32 anti-ship missiles, of which around 32 percent remain of the pre-war stock of 370.
However, Russia still has thousands of missiles it can use to continue attacks if Reznikov's figures are accurate. These include almost 7,000 S-300 surface-to-air missiles which double as ground attack weapons, hundreds of anti-ship missiles, and dozens of nuclear-capable hypersonic Kinzhal missiles.
Ukraine seems to be on the dregs of their weaponry now.
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As far as i know, only the losers get charged with war crimes.
In the last war, the Russians commited horrific war crimes against the Poles and other ethnic groups, they shot 1000's of Polish soldiers into mass graves at Katyn and then tried to pin the crimes on the Germans.
When the war was over the Russians were invited to join the allies to sit in judgement of the Germans at the Nuremburg trials.
That is why the concept of "war crimes" is flawed.
Why would the Russians rig a referendum which they knew they could win legitimately.
Crimea is majority ethnic Russian.
As far as i know the Russians invited western observers to monitor the referendum but their invitation was declined, probably on the grounds that the western observers didn't want to be put in the embarrassing position of having to endorse as legitimate, a referendum which their governments had been telling the world would be rigged.
Which one, Syria, Georgia, Caucasus, Chechnya?
Q. Is there anybody in the world who believes what Putin says?
A. Yes, Vinty.
In other news.
"Three million of Russia’s most educated people have left the country, taking with them their intellectual capital and energy. Back home, the Russian state is cannibalising refrigerators and other white goods for the chips it can no longer import.
According to Sonnenfeld’s monitoring team at Yale, 1,000 of the 1,200 top foreign corporate investors in Russia have now fully pulled out of the country. Their revenues accounted for 35 per cent of Russia’s gross domestic product before the invasion of Ukraine. Among these are the oil and gas companies, such as BP (which took a writedown of $25.5bn) that kept Russia’s fossil fuel pipelines flowing and its equipment maintained. Russia’s natural gas exports have all but dried up.
Europe used to take the bulk of Russia’s supply and has now reduced it to close to zero. I have no idea who blew up Nord Stream II but it was quite unnecessary. Europe has shown Chinese-style efficiency in rapidly building LNG capacity to import the liquefied gas that Russia is technically incapable of producing. Russia’s vapour gas is thus stuck with no market. It would take years to build Russian pipelines to alternative buyers."
FT.com
A. Yes, Vinty.
In other news.
"Three million of Russia’s most educated people have left the country, taking with them their intellectual capital and energy. Back home, the Russian state is cannibalising refrigerators and other white goods for the chips it can no longer import.
According to Sonnenfeld’s monitoring team at Yale, 1,000 of the 1,200 top foreign corporate investors in Russia have now fully pulled out of the country. Their revenues accounted for 35 per cent of Russia’s gross domestic product before the invasion of Ukraine. Among these are the oil and gas companies, such as BP (which took a writedown of $25.5bn) that kept Russia’s fossil fuel pipelines flowing and its equipment maintained. Russia’s natural gas exports have all but dried up.
Europe used to take the bulk of Russia’s supply and has now reduced it to close to zero. I have no idea who blew up Nord Stream II but it was quite unnecessary. Europe has shown Chinese-style efficiency in rapidly building LNG capacity to import the liquefied gas that Russia is technically incapable of producing. Russia’s vapour gas is thus stuck with no market. It would take years to build Russian pipelines to alternative buyers."
FT.com
A lot of these protesters in Georgia were carrying EU flags.
Ironic that even democratic states like Georgia and not exempt from the prospect of regime change in the name of "democracy".
Vietnam, Suez, Iraq, Afganistan ect. ect.
What is your point.
You read that on Tik tok
The EU is buying up Russian liquefied natural gas at the highest level in 3 years, think tank says
The EU snapped up 19.2 billion cubic meters of Russian liquefied natural gas last year, a 35% increase from 2021.
markets.businessinsider.com
Like I said, used to.
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