Yeah, everyone discourages them, even us. Just only use them for that one thing that only they can really do to save Ukrainian lives.
When a cluster munition bursts over a trench system, (or any other really rugged terrain for that matter) some of the smaller submunitions inevitably fall into the trench, significantly reducing its effectiveness as cover from the bombardment. This capability of sudden, wide-area impact cannot be easily replicated.
There aren’t many good “counters” for dug-in infantry. This is one of them, that’s all. It saves Ukrainian lives today. Though if any accidentally unexploded submunitions are not cleaned up with great care, it can come at the cost of innocent Ukrainian lives tomorrow. That’s the only issue.
It’s all for publicity. You should post the videos where the police are being all nice and chatting her up and taking selfies with her before carrying her away at the last protest. News outlets only posted the videos of her being carried away. Other outlets leaked the before images of her posing for pictures and smiles with the cops. It’s all bullshit.
The U.S. uses sanctions all the damn time. Biden lifted SOME sanctions for a bit, then put them back and now there are calls for yet MORE sanctions. Sanctions all around! IMO, this hasn’t worked, won’t work, hurts the populace more than the leaders, leads to dangerous migrations that end up turning the U.S. more authoritarian as it freaks out about these refugees seeking relief from the policies the U.S. itself put in place, encourages a coalition of dictators who are all facing U.S. sanctions to trade with one another since we won’t trade with them, and is bad for so many more reasons.
U.S. sanctions have surged in the past two decades and are in effect in some form in almost a third of all countries. In the case of Venezuela, U.S. officials were — and remain — sharply torn over the financial fusillade.
The Biden administration temporarily lifted key sanctions on Venezuela last year in exchange for promises from Maduro to allow a competitive presidential election, … But because Maduro has failed to follow through on most of his commitments, the Biden administration reimposed the sanctions.
Since 2014, output has contracted by 70 percent, more than twice the hit the United States suffered during the Great Depression…Over that period, some 7.7 million Venezuelans – a quarter of the population – have left the country in search of work.
Biden inherited a strategy of maximum pressure on Venezuela from President Trump. But despite applied pressure, consecutive rounds of sanctions failed to dislodge Maduro.
Biden, meanwhile, pursued a different approach. Under the 2023 Barbados Agreement, he eased some sanctions – notably on oil and debt – for political guarantees, namely free and fair elections and the release of detained US citizens.
The deal allowed Venezuela to earn an additional $740m in oil sales from last October to March. But after Maduro blocked Machado from running, and following the revival of a territorial dispute with Guyana, Biden re-imposed US sanctions in April.
Congressional Republicans are pressing the Biden administration to impose harsh sanctions on Venezuela’s government for allegedly “subverting” the results of the country’s presidential election on Sunday.
SpaceX’s track record for orbital insertion definitely had something to do with that. When last I knew, N-G didn’t have its own launch facilities (that might’ve changed in the last few years but I doubt it).
The UK government would knowingly be in breach of the Good Friday Agreement if it withdrew from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), MPs have been told.The ECHR is a treaty which sets out the rights and freedoms people are entitled to in 46 signatory countries and is overseen by the European Court of Human Rights.The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee took evidence on the potential impact of ECHR withdrawal on NI.It has published a summary of that evidence in a letter to the secretary of state.The ECHR is separate to the European Union - so the UK remained part of it after Brexit.The committee acknowledges the government’s current position that the UK will remain a party to the ECHR.
However, the context for the letter is the call among some Conservative MPs to withdraw from the ECHR or hold a referendum on withdrawal.The committee said: "Given the convention is embedded in the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, written into the Northern Ireland Act 1998 and determines how the Northern Ireland Assembly legislates, we note that Northern Ireland is often overlooked whenever the prospect of ECHR withdrawal is raised.
"The evidence it heard from legal experts included analysis that withdrawal would affect cross-border collaboration in criminal investigations and have other practical implications for policing.The experts also said it is unlikely the UK could withdraw from the ECHR without triggering a review procedure built into the Good Friday Agreement.If so, the UK and Irish governments, as parties to the Agreement, would be required to conduct a review in consultation with the Northern Ireland Assembly.Committee chairman Sir Robert Buckland said: "Given the imminent Prorogation of Parliament, I wanted on behalf of my committee to put these points and concerns on the record.
“So this and the next administration, and others with an interest in human rights law in this country, might understand clearly the UK-wide context – the context of both Great Britain and Northern Ireland – in which the ECHR operates.”
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