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We have used DU rounds for decades.TASS in 2018: Upgrading Russian tanks to fire depleted uranium ammunition "does not violate any international treaties"
TASS in 2023: UK providing Ukraine with depleted uranium ammunition "violates the fundamentals norms of international law"
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There's a reason effective populist leaders can tug on our baser emotions. How else could il Duce encourage 235,000 Italians to fight in the Soviet winter, and at least 114,500 die, all for essentially nothing? At least, Varus thought he was sending his legions into the Teutoburg Forest for a useful purpose. This time around I'd be glad if Meloni sent Ariete MBTs to Ukraine. It's got the same gun as the Leopard 2 and Abrams, but is significantly lighter, only 7 tons more than a T-90, so may be useful on bridges.There are English subtitles but it's worth turning-up the volume even if you don't understand Italian.
Seems that Hungary's politicians have a short memory regarding Russia...Anyway, good luck to Putin trying to visit Hungary.
The only way to get there without flying over an ICC country is ...... (yes you know it) ...... flying over Ukraine.
Hungary would not arrest Putin, says PM Orban's chief of staff
Hungary would not arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin if he entered the country, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff said on Thursday, adding that it would have no legal grounds.www.reuters.com
Seems that Hungary's politicians have a short memory regarding Russia...
Orban is a Putin puppet, going to great lengths a year ago to assure everyone that Russia would not attack Ukraine and in it's wake, working overtime to downplay his buddy's "special operation".I'm still struggling with the whole "Rome Statute had not been built into the Hungarian legal system." What's the point of signing up to a statute if you're not going to actually implement it? I thought "signing up to" meant you had to implement it. Am I missing something?
Naughty step! Now!France votes to transfer their thank to the Ukraine. (I can do this all day but this my last one.)
Good account of a veteran Ukrainian tank commander.
‘Give Me an Abrams!’ Ukrainian Tank Commanders Grow Impatient. (Published 2023)
For now, they are holding on with inferior Soviet-era tanks, but relish the idea of taking on the Russians with modern Western battle tanks.www.nytimes.com
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"Poltava recalled a defining moment when he was a young officer serving under contract with the Russian military in Georgia. During the Russian intervention to annex the Abkhazia region, he was approached by an older Georgian man who asked him what he was doing there. "I'm standing there, a young officer, and I say, 'I'm defending the motherland,'" Poltava recalled. "He looks into my eyes. 'Son, where is your motherland? Where are you from?' I say, 'I'm from Kharkiv, Ukraine.' And he says, 'And this is Poti, Georgia.' And he spits in my face. It was like a smack. I was taken aback. And then I thought, 'Really, what am I doing here?'"
"Fighting against the Russian Army has made him reflect on the many untruths he was taught at the Soviet military college, including that Soviet tanks were superior to the American Abrams tanks. "Now we are facing them and we see it's like heaven and earth," Poltava said, "and we understood how much they brainwashed us." "We were always told that the U.S. and NATO were our…..
Nice turn of phrase. Think I'll steal it.Ukrainians can see first hand that Russia is a broken scrap heap of a nation, and these other nations above will soon test the same shackles.