Escalation or fake ?-trying to interfere perfunctorily in the national US election? Again:
“A wave of drones struck residential buildings in Moscow for the first time since the Ukraine war began, with several downed in a neighborhood near one of President Vladimir Putin’s residences, in an attack that Russia blamed on Kyiv.
Videos online showed plumes of smoke over the area’s turreted estates, and photographs on social media—carried by state television—displayed blackened holes in working-class apartment buildings inside Moscow and on the outskirts of the city.
Several drones were shot down over the Rublyovka district, which houses the city’s political and business elite, and is only miles from Putin’s official Novo-Ogaryovo residence.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin was informed immediately about the attack, without disclosing the president’s whereabouts at the time. He said the attacks were in retaliation for previous strikes by Russia on Ukraine.”
America is the only nation to nuke people , let alone innocent civilians. women and children. Nuked them happily, for meaningless expediency and fear factor.
Nature is just a reflection of nature. Downward slide into Darwinian conditions again. No finish at the finish line. If we’re dead then keep going, what is left to hold back? We have our secrets, heartbeat blood on the track just keep on going. You too will find the end is just a
Another ‘ group of Nato countries may be willing to put troops on the ground in Ukraine if member states including the US do not provide tangible security guarantees to Kyiv at the alliances’s summit in Vilnius, the former Nato secretary general Anders Rasmussen has said.
Rasmussen, who has been acting as official adviser to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, on Ukraine’s place in a future European security architecture, has been touring Europe and Washington to gauge the shifting mood before the critical summit starts on 15 July.
He also warned that even if a group of states did provide Ukraine with security guarantees, others would not allow the issue of Ukraine’s future Nato membership to be kept off the agenda at Vilnius.
He made his remarks as the current Nato chief, Jens Stoltenberg, said the issue of security guarantees would be on the agenda at Vilnius, but added that Nato – under article 5 of the Washington treaty – only provided full-fledged security guarantees to full members.
The US ambassador to Nato, Julianne Smith, said: “We are looking at an array of options to signal that Ukraine is advancing in its relationship with Nato.”
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Rasmussen said: “If Nato cannot agree on a clear path forward for Ukraine, there is a clear possibility that some countries individually might take action. We know that Poland is very engaged in providing concrete assistance to Ukraine. And I wouldn’t exclude the possibility that Poland would engage even stronger in this context on a national basis and be followed by the Baltic states, maybe including the possibility of troops on the ground.
“I think the Poles would seriously consider going in and assemble a coalition of the willing if Ukraine doesn’t get anything in Vilnius. We shouldn’t underestimate the Polish feelings, the Poles feel that for too long western Europe did not listen to their warnings against the true Russian mentality.”
He said it would be entirely legal for Ukraine to seek such military assistance.
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His striking suggestion that some states may regard the stakes as momentous enough to use their own troops could be seen as a warning to countries that the risks, including the threat to Nato unity, do not only come if Ukraine is provided a quick path to Nato membership, or powerful security guarantees. Germany remains wary of going too far, fearing it would provoke Russia.
Rasmussen said it was imperative that Ukraine should receive written security guarantees, preferably before the summit, but outside the Nato framework. These need to cover intelligence sharing, joint Ukraine training, enhanced ammunition production, Nato interoperability and a supply of arms sufficient to deter Russia from a further attack.
He said that “after a slow start, momentum was now building behind these ideas”, including in France.
But he warned that security guarantees would not be enough.
He said that “some Nato allies might be in favour of the security guarantees to actually avoid a real discussion on Ukraine’s membership aspirations. They hope that by providing security guarantees, they can avoid this question. I don’t think that is possible. I think the Nato issue will be raised at the summit in Vilnius. I’ve spoken with several eastern European leaders, and there is a group of hardcore, eastern central European allies that want at least a clear path for Ukraine towards Nato membership.”
He said history showed it was dangerous to leave Ukraine in the Nato waiting room indefinitely. Even if an invitation to Ukraine to join Nato could not be provided at the Vilnius summit, the possibility of extending an invitation in Washington next year could be referenced. That path to membership, he said, should exclude setting preconditions such as a Nato membership action plan, something neither Sweden nor Finland have been required to adopt as part of their membership path.
“Anything less than that would be a disappointment to Ukraine,” he said.
He rejected the argument that Ukraine could not be offered a path to Nato membership until the war was over, saying this would provide Putin with a veto.
Re: dasein and thermo-nuclear war?
[size=85]Postby MagsJ » Sun 28 May, 2023 12:20[/size]
[b][i]A retired U.S. general, in a Live talk on Tuesday, on Ukraine: “We need to fight China next and then the other rising Nations, and all the new NATO countries that are joining up will give us the fighting men we need… Lithuania alone will give us what, 500,000 men”.
Anyone else see that one^ coming? The eagerness for them in signing up countries, exposed that, for me… making plans, on utilising other country’s men.
In America… they’re coming for your children
In Europe… they’re coming for your men[/i][/b]
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Willing? …or coerced through contractual obligations, by signing-up?
It’s menacing , people being drawn into a false sense of security.they think with the UN they get more security, but in fact they are doing the opposite
The race to beat the click(atomic) is full throttle ahead, the simulation-assimilation zero sum is fast approaching, we do have a few decades, not agree, and at the rate that science doubles every year, - this last step of mankind may bring secular redemption analogous to the rate of Shane in human attitude.
Better be positive about that, and the Vienna group was right in with that one, even if mankind would posit meaning into heuristic hermetism as an objective.
Who knows better that disseminate ( meaninglessness.then a dispersinified use of unreasoned/unreasonable destructive power to will in the wrong direction. no?