1. ...“That is crazy question, why we can't answer and attack these, especially this person, this military base where from these guided bombs or missile came, targeted us, killed our children,” he said. “So, for me, that's not rhetoric. For me, it's real plan. … Now this is the plan for all our nation, and we are waiting from our allies, and I'm sure that our friends, allies will understand all this.”
Stoltenberg stated that under international law, Ukraine’s right of self-defense “includes also the right to strike legitimate military targets on the territory of the aggressor Russia.”
“Some allies have not imposed any restrictions at all,” he continued. “That varies a bit between allies, but allies have reduced the restrictions on the use of the weapons delivered to Ukraine, and this has enabled Ukraine to strike legitimate military targets on the territory of Russia.”
"It’s even more important since Russia opened a new front in Kharkiv," he said.
.....Finnish President Alexander Stubb said he fully supported Ukraine striking inside Russia.
“This is a traditional kinetic warfare where the aggressor is Russia. So, for us to try to take some kind of a moral high ground and say that they cannot use weapons X, Y and Z, is simply wrong,” he said. “Russia is bombing hospitals, children's hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, theaters. They have absolutely no limits to the type of warfare that they take. So, for us to put some kind of a brake on what Ukraine can and should use would simply be wrong. So, I say go for it.”....
Source Link: https://www.nationaldefensemagazine...s-crazy-ukraine-cant-strike-targets-in-russia
2. Poster's Comment:
(a) Reuters reported that since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October and up to the end of June, the US had transferred at least 14,000 of the MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, 6,500 500-pound bombs, 3,000 Hellfire precision-guided air-to-ground missiles, 1,000 bunker-buster bombs, 2,600 air-dropped small-diameter bombs, and other munitions to Israel.
US weapons parts were used in Israeli attack on the United Nations-run al-Sardi school in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp on 6 June. In short, the US can be regarded as the "decisive enabler" of Israel's war in Gaza. Britain-based charity Oxfam has deemed the war on Gaza the deadliest conflict in the 21st century.
(b) The Ukrainian leader has criticized his US counterpart's restrictions of weapons to strike targets in Russia as crazy. Using an analogy, how can a boxer win the match if he is forbidden to attack or strike back at his opponent who keeps delivering deadly blows at him throughout the whole match? Using another analogy, a patient is sent screaming with severe headache to a hospital, but the mad doctor takes his own sweet examining his legs instead.
If the war in Ukraine continues indefinitely, it will be deadlier than the Gaza war, turning the whole land into a heap of rubble and decimating almost the entire population. One netizen claims in a social forum that Putin knows that the US isn’t gonna send its troops into Ukraine. Hence it seems there exists a tacit agreement for Russia to have a free hand in the Ukraine war. In this regard, the US can be considered as the "decisive collaborator" of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
(c) How to explain America's bizarre roles in the two deadly wars of the century? At the end of World War II, the US took the opportunity to use Hiroshima and Nagasaki as nuclear testing grounds on human beings. In my opinion, the US is now using Gaza and Ukraine as testing grounds on the impact of prolonged, deadly wars on human beings.
Additional References:
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www.aljazeera.com
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https://turkiye.un.org/en/263635-gaza-23-million-tonnes-debris-‘will-take-years-clear’-acute-malnutrition-doubles-month
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Stoltenberg stated that under international law, Ukraine’s right of self-defense “includes also the right to strike legitimate military targets on the territory of the aggressor Russia.”
“Some allies have not imposed any restrictions at all,” he continued. “That varies a bit between allies, but allies have reduced the restrictions on the use of the weapons delivered to Ukraine, and this has enabled Ukraine to strike legitimate military targets on the territory of Russia.”
"It’s even more important since Russia opened a new front in Kharkiv," he said.
.....Finnish President Alexander Stubb said he fully supported Ukraine striking inside Russia.
“This is a traditional kinetic warfare where the aggressor is Russia. So, for us to try to take some kind of a moral high ground and say that they cannot use weapons X, Y and Z, is simply wrong,” he said. “Russia is bombing hospitals, children's hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, theaters. They have absolutely no limits to the type of warfare that they take. So, for us to put some kind of a brake on what Ukraine can and should use would simply be wrong. So, I say go for it.”....
Source Link: https://www.nationaldefensemagazine...s-crazy-ukraine-cant-strike-targets-in-russia
2. Poster's Comment:
(a) Reuters reported that since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October and up to the end of June, the US had transferred at least 14,000 of the MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, 6,500 500-pound bombs, 3,000 Hellfire precision-guided air-to-ground missiles, 1,000 bunker-buster bombs, 2,600 air-dropped small-diameter bombs, and other munitions to Israel.
US weapons parts were used in Israeli attack on the United Nations-run al-Sardi school in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp on 6 June. In short, the US can be regarded as the "decisive enabler" of Israel's war in Gaza. Britain-based charity Oxfam has deemed the war on Gaza the deadliest conflict in the 21st century.
(b) The Ukrainian leader has criticized his US counterpart's restrictions of weapons to strike targets in Russia as crazy. Using an analogy, how can a boxer win the match if he is forbidden to attack or strike back at his opponent who keeps delivering deadly blows at him throughout the whole match? Using another analogy, a patient is sent screaming with severe headache to a hospital, but the mad doctor takes his own sweet examining his legs instead.
If the war in Ukraine continues indefinitely, it will be deadlier than the Gaza war, turning the whole land into a heap of rubble and decimating almost the entire population. One netizen claims in a social forum that Putin knows that the US isn’t gonna send its troops into Ukraine. Hence it seems there exists a tacit agreement for Russia to have a free hand in the Ukraine war. In this regard, the US can be considered as the "decisive collaborator" of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
(c) How to explain America's bizarre roles in the two deadly wars of the century? At the end of World War II, the US took the opportunity to use Hiroshima and Nagasaki as nuclear testing grounds on human beings. In my opinion, the US is now using Gaza and Ukraine as testing grounds on the impact of prolonged, deadly wars on human beings.
Additional References:
Ukraine tension: President Zelensky hits back at Biden comments
Its president bristles at suggestions a "minor" Russian attack may bring a weaker Western response.
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Biden lost his temper on a call with Zelenskyy when Ukraine's leader asked for more aid
Biden had barely finished telling Zelenskyy he’d just greenlighted another $1 billion in military assistance when the Ukrainian president started listing all the additional help he needed.
www.nbcnews.com
Gaza daily deaths exceed all other major conflicts in 21st century: Oxfam
Human Rights Watch also says Israel’s war has included ‘acts of collective punishment that amount to war crimes’.
Israel is killing 250 Palestinians per day, says Oxfam
The rights group has deemed the war on Gaza the deadliest conflict in the 21st century as strike on Rafah kills nine.
US resumes sending shipments of 500-pound bombs to Israel
The US will continue to withhold supply of 2,000-pound bombs over concern they will be used in densely populated areas.
US weapons parts used in Israeli attack on Gaza school: Al Jazeera analysis
Parts recovered from an Israeli attack on Thursday, which killed 40 Palestinians, made by US manufacturer.
https://turkiye.un.org/en/263635-gaza-23-million-tonnes-debris-‘will-take-years-clear’-acute-malnutrition-doubles-month
'Unlike anything we have studied': Gaza's destruction in numbers
As well as killing more than 34,000 people and causing catastrophic levels of hunger and injury, the seven-month war between Israel and Hamas has also caused massive material destruction in Gaza.
www.france24.com
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ‑ Causes, Impact & Lives Lost | HISTORY
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939‑45), an American B‑29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, immediately killing 80,000 people. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
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