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Absolute nonsense, I've never heard such crap in all my life. How many years are you stretching back to find these 16 chinese conflicts? How exactly do you define a border conflict?
Illegal dumping and illegal fishing😂 grasping at straws here trying to paint China as the bad guy, China are boy scouts compared to US endeavours in the last 20 years. Look I get it, your brainwashed. Everything not Western is bad, they're all animals in Russia, China, the middle East etc.
^In the case above, a network of surveillance drones could confirm whether shots were fired, where they came from, provide clues as to the chain of command and no need to rely on second-hand media accounts. If you are right, such a system would confirm it.
If CCTV prevents crime (and, the argument goes, those who reject CCTV only do so because they something to hide), then perhaps an independently maintained drone-based surveillance system could help prevent war crimes. It would certainly provide extra clarity. Light being a disenfectant (even in the infra red) etc.
They can already tell that through satellite surveillance ,they can even track exactly where and what was fired .
The only ones relying on social media are us joe so's
Yes they can. Drones would pick up better imagery for certain purposes though. The leap is not a technological one, but would be in getting international agreement on how the data is used, or whether it's used at all and on agreeing which body should oversee operations. The UN? Red Cross?
There has been friction between the West and Russia for decades. Even a speaker at the Conservative Party conference wanted to attack Russia.
For the fanatics: It's possible to criticise both sides of a crisis. Just because you hate country X doesn't mean you have to defend opposing country Y. No need to dredge up ancient or unrelated history. A current administration isn't responsible for something another administration did decades ago. Likewise a modern administration isn't being "hypocritical" criticising a potential invasion just because you can find something negative in their history.
The current sanctions (related to 2014) are targeted, aimed more at individuals, Putin's inner circle, etc.
If Putin were to invade Ukraine, then sanctions would be much more severe and far-reaching. Obviously there can't be a situation where US troops and Russian troops would be shooting at each other, that would be a world war.
I think it's fair enough people don't take international law seriously, how many times have NATO prosecuted themselves for the obvious slaughter of women and children? NATO hardly if ever even investigate or bring charges against the ruling powers of NATO.
Anytime you hear about the USA killing a large amount civilians you also hear they attempted to cover it up. The USA are people who try and tell us that the slaughter of women and children is justified because a few cavemen tried to shoot coalition forces. The Baghuz strike was one of the largest civilian casualty incidents in anyone's war against the Islamic State, but it has never been publicly acknowledged by the U.S. military.
Stuff like this is why I can't buy into this crap I'm being told by the USA, this stuff happens all the time and they always cover it up, the blatant and obvious murder of over 50 innocent children. If Russia done this I'd be having it shoved down my throat 24 hours a day for weeks while it barely gets a mention in Western media.
That be something Ben Gilroy would do.
The UN are useless,as seen during the shooting down of MH17 and chemical weapons attacks in Syria,
There will never be an independent government agreement over who controls the data and the likes of Russia would have no issues shooting down a drone to allow them to carry out an attack,
UKRAINE has repeatedly gone to the UN and asked for help including deploying UN peacekeepers to the occupied separatists Russia says no and they will never allow UN to deploy peacekeepers in Ukraine,
The USA dropped 2 atom bombs in WW2: they were not dropped at random, they were targeted at Hiroshima and Nagasaki as everyone knows. I'm not here to argue about the morality of that, but to say that the USA "randomly dropped atomic bombs" (lots of them??) is just drivel. What's equally nonsense is your assertion that the USA should just "take out" the Russians by air if they invade Ukraine. There is just about on-one in the USA thinking remotely along those lines.
I don’t see the world standing by if Putin will try the above because if Ukraine today, where next his aggressive flight of fancy…? Has to be a line in the sand.
I know what you mean, nternational law has failed in many respects, but it is all that separates us from the jungle in international affairs.
Serious laws are broken all the time (assault, murder, etc.) but we don't abandon laws entirely because of that. The law is there because it's our best estimation of right and wrong courses of action.
It's different though. It's not that it fails, international law is merely a way for the larger nations to bring charges against the smaller nations that they don't like. They never ever prosecute themselves and never will.
They just claim it's justified or they cover it up and move on, no investigation or prosecutions needed.
Do a simple Google search,i dont want to explain it for you when its readily available.
Or simply live in denial,i dont really care
That's a bit disingenuous, as has been pointed out to you and others several times. The United States (and the UK) are currently part financing and giving political cover to a contiuing brutal assault on civilians in Sanna by the Saudi and UAE war machine...not 50 years ago, not 20 years ago but days ago...not Clinton, not Bush, not Trump, but Biden....and it is entirely appropriate to raise these points while we sit and listen to nauseating, sychophantic language from Biden, Harris, Johnson and Blinken...
None of this is about 'hate' and countries it's about opposing leaders who play a nefarious role in the globe by threatening neighbours with military intervention or other forms of intervention as Putin is doing with Ukraine or the US has done and is doing in the Middle East and Latin America. These events are dealt with in the media in entirely different ways...have you heard Coveney once call out the US or the UK, no but no shortage of critique of Putin....surely you're not on board with this level of hypocrisy?
Macron seems to trying for peace while Blinken continues to agitate for war...
And innocent Putin has no input into whether his military continue with their efforts to annex parts of another country. Poor guy.
This crowd seem interesting:
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Indeed, perhaps Macron is talking to himself but I believe it's Putin...have you heard differently?
I've been hearing that for months now. "You'll regret posting that in the next few days they're about to move in".
I'm guessing the situation is going to slowly fade away and I'll be told Putin had not made his mind up etc.
The USA and UK are already preparing their narrative for a few months from now, they'll be declaring it as a victory, Biden and Johnson put Putin back in his box, this is a victory for the US etc etc.
By 2025 it will have a bigger Navy and ships that the American Navy college has described as excellent.
There will be lots of old ships as well but the investment and development in to their forces is incredible.
They'll be eager to use them.
It's an interesting idea already in use with disaster response ,
They use pretty much off the shelf hobby drones dji quadcopters and multi rotors , most Have about 25 minutes flight time,and for them to accurately record evidence they would have to be extremely lucky to be in the exact same place when a tank fires at a building like a preschool like we already saw this week and another be looking at the building at the same time ,
We already know that's various militaries have drones capable of loitering over an airspace 20+ hours at a time and at high altitudes to see huge areas ,
This is what the UN should be doing,they should have immediately deployed forces to ukraine to help stabilise a security situation at the request of a sovereign nation and block anyone from vetoing it
How about the last act, where he is determined to go if he does not get his way, and take the World with him????
Russia will be carrying out military exercises so have given warning to air and maritime to not use the area within the red lines.
That are is 50 ish percent of Ukraine’s coastal border
They previously warned ukraine that's boats leaving their ports would be targeted as the sea of azoz was now a live artillery range
Half of boards these days, at lease Chamberlain was sincere I suppose.
Months at a time in the case of the X-37 (if you classify that as a drone, others see it as a spacecraft.. it can be both), but most cluster around 40-50 hours at the top end last time I looked. Anyway, yes it would require a network of military-grade unmanned aerial vehicles providing 24 hour surveillance. A scaling up of that drones w/out borders idea beyond hobbyist drones w/ their hobbyist flight times and hobbyist cameras/other sensors.
The same argument could have been made for Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis. Self determination for Cuba - with missiles?
@[Deleted User] "Yes Denmark, Norway and Poland are most evil, Einstein"
They are not; missiles pointing at Moscow is evil.
@joe40 "Do you honestly think NATO countries are going to invade Russia."
They can provoke endlessly as the have been doing since 1990. All that is needed is a loon with ideas. Why should Russia accept missiles in their backyard?
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