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So, provided no signatories facilitate the move of such weapons to Ukraine, I see no issues. Especially if Ukraine uses the weapons solely within Ukraine. If any Ukrainian citizens are killed or injured they or their families can presumably take it up with Kyiv as a domestic governance issue, essentially a wrongful death claim. If any invading forces are killed or injured, the solution is easy.... leave Ukraine.The US, Russia and the Ukraine were not signatories so, theoretically, they can do as they please.
190 years earlier it looked slightly different - and what conclusion you are suggesting???In a way, the First World War was very beneficial to the Poles. They no had homeland beforehand, and ended up after 1918 seeing their country emerge from the wreckage of Germany and Russia. Had the Tsar held on and the Russians fought on through to Nov 1918 the area we know as Poland would have been absorbed into Russia.
Just look at the size of Germany in 1914. Had it lasted to today you'd likely be able to take a high speed train from Konigsberg to Stuttgart in a few hours.... or drive the autobahn.
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So, provided no signatories facilitate the move of such weapons to Ukraine, I see no issues.
I know the U.S. isn't a signatory to the agreement but I believe the U.S. abides by it. The cluster munitions were/are being scrapped. So were the rocket motors. After scrapping about 200,000, those mischievous imps at Boeing and Saab came up with a use for the remaining rocket motors. The remaining rocket motors and whatever bomb is the "small diameter" is combine for the GLSDB.So, provided no signatories facilitate the move of such weapons to Ukraine, I see no issues. Especially if Ukraine uses the weapons solely within Ukraine. If any Ukrainian citizens are killed or injured they or their families can presumably take it up with Kyiv as a domestic governance issue, essentially a wrongful death claim. If any invading forces are killed or injured, the solution is easy.... leave Ukraine.
If Russia had not invaded Ukraine in Feb 2022 I think there was no chance of Crimea ever being returned to Ukrainian hands. The world had clearly moved onto other business and interests since Russia's seizure of Crimea in 2014, with the EU happy to buy Russian oil and the US looking at Ukraine as a corrupt distraction with whatever Biden's son had on that laptop, allegedly. As such, the 2022 invasion has been a disaster for any Russians hoping to hold Crimea, just as it's a disaster for those ethnic-Russians hoping to create longstanding Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics. Ukraine won't stop now until Crimea is theirs again, and the LPR/DPR are ground into the earth and their leaders and followers dead, jailed or exiled.
Bakhmut is going to end up like Stalingrad, where the invader thus fixated on an otherwise minor goal wastes his army for nothing, all while the defender is seeing the bigger picture and preparing a decisive counter offensive.Pushilin's adviser, Yan Gagin, said fighters from Russian mercenary force Wagner had taken partial control of a supply road leading to Bakhmut, a city that has been Moscow's main focus for months.
Bakhmut is going to end up like Stalingrad, where the invader thus fixated on an otherwise minor goal wastes his army for nothing, all while the defender is seeing the bigger picture and preparing a decisive counter offensive.
Just like before their summer offensive, Ukrainian forces have been rather quiet.
It appears that they are using just enough manpower to hold the Russians at bay while the bulk of their forces are...where?
Hmmm...
Indeed. Ukraine's prewar population of 44 million would be about 25% men aged 18-40 years, or about 11 million potential fighting men. Of course the economy and industry must be run, but a UAF of over one million is likely, as the retired Russian colonel said below, start 0:56.Just like before their summer offensive, Ukrainian forces have been rather quiet. It appears that they are using just enough manpower to hold the Russians at bay while the bulk of their forces are...where? Hmmm...