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Pressure grows to allow attacks on Russia with U.S. weapons​

Secretary of State Antony Blinken suggested yesterday that the Biden administration could be open to tolerating strikes by the Ukrainian military inside Russia using American-made weapons. He said that the U.S., which has so far opposed such attacks, would “adapt and adjust” its stance based on battlefield conditions.
 
In the U.S., a plant still under construction in Texas will soon turn out 30,000 artillery shells each month for the 155-millimeter howitzers that have become crucial to Kyiv’s war effort, roughly doubling current U.S. output. Here’s a look inside.
 
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his troops are locked in fierce battles in northeastern Ukraine, where the Russian army is taking control of villages and attacking energy facilities. How significant is this latest Russian offensive in Kharkiv?

In this episode:

  • Hanna Shelest, Security Studies Program Director, Ukrainian Prism.
  • Roger Hilton, Defence and Security Fellow, GLOBSEC.
  • Pavel Felgenhauer, Independent Russian Defence and Military Analyst.
Host: Sami Zeidan

 
Not sure why the Minister for the NDIS , Bill Shorten, is one of the delegates at a Swiss peace Summit.
From SBS
Mick
 

Nigel Farage's Ukraine comments aren't 'disgraceful'

Ever since Nigel Farage announced that he would stand for election as leader of Reform UK, the political class has been looking for an opportunity to thwart him. Those on the liberal-Left deplore his views on immigration and still hold a grudge over Brexit. Meanwhile, those on the Tory Right...
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Professor Joshua Shifrinson is another scholar who believes that Western policy played a key role in Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine. Back in 2016, he wrote a prize-winning article based on detailed archival research, which showed that “the United States repeatedly offered the Soviet Union informal assurances against Nato’s future expansion into Eastern Europe.” More recently, he has claimed that “Nato enlargement is essential to understanding how we’ve ended up in this mess.”

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US is bringing F16 to be used in Ukraine. Russia has said it will bomb the planes in any country they fly out of.

A lot of troops built up on the border. Poland is preparing its citizens for war.
China is asserting its dominance in the South China Sea.

Flashpoint at the moment.
 
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