Ukraine has already negotiated. The result of that negotiation, which Russia agreed to decades ago, was that Crimea and all the rest are part of Ukraine. The problem isn’t getting to an agreement; the problem is getting Russia to keep the agreement.
And the negotiated away their nuclear weapons and got lies in exchange.
The War, Russian Home Front:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/world/russian-student-jailed-renaming-wifi-ukraine-intl/index.html
“Public display of Nazi symbols” . Hmph. Led me down a short rabbit hole into the wiki article on the phrase.
Interesting article. I wonder why it’s Slava Ukraini! on the one hand and Heroiam Slava! on the other. You’d think “slava” would be on the same end in both phrases.
Maybe it’s like the English equivalent of “Glory [to] Ukraine!” (Slava Ukraini!) vs. “[A] Hero’s Glory!” (Heroiam Slava!).
…and there’s your problem right there.
You are missing the fact that it is a symmetric call and (inverted) response:
Слава Україні — Героям Слава!
[cf.: Слава, Слава, Слава героям!!! // Впрочем, / им / довольно воздали дани. / Теперь / поговорим / о дряни.]
compare:
as-salaamu alaykum — wa alaykumu s-salaam [vs simply repeating the greeting]
Glory, Glory, Glory to heroes!!! / But they / at the least, are never forgot. What I intend / to talk of today / is rot. / Revolutionary tempests grow quiet, seem far. / With duckweed the Soviet mishmash gets coated. / And now / from the back of the RSFSR / the philistine’s visage / pokes out, bloated…
The obvious solution is to target the plants. But, it’s probably located far away from Ukraine.
The Guardian feed
Well no, the obvious solution is to get off our asses and start sending Ukraine more ammunition. But certain parties are doing everything they can to disallow that solution.
How can the U.S. send ammunition it isn’t producing?
I mean, we’re two years into a major European war and NATO hasn’t ramped up production yet - even though they know that they’ll need the ammo at some point, either now or to refill stocks after the war is over. Frankly, the West deserves to lose.
Russian dictators hate this one trick!
And when that runs out, then what?
As pointed out, those stockpiles are large enough to support several years of fighting at the levels we’ve seen. That gives us time to pull our other head out of our other ass, and start producing new ammunition at higher rates. That would require conclusively trouncing the Republicans in the upcoming election, however. I can’t help you with that part.
No, Ukrainian is a lot like Russian, with numerous noun declensions that make word order very flexible. I believe they (both) have a tendency to emphasize a word by placing it forward in a phrase or sentence. “Heroyam Slava!” is literally “To the heroes, glory!” emphasizing the importance of the heroes by placing them forward.
unreliable and unsafe, as any particular submunition has up to a 14-percent chance of being a dud.
Well, if the Ukrainians are happy that there’s an 86% chance they’ll be OK…
Some problems with the CNN article.
First off, 3 million vs 1.2 million is 2.5x, not 3x.
Second, according to this usually reasonably reliable Twitter source, apparently the 3 million figure includes all calibres while the 1.2 million figure is 155mm only. Russian production of 152mm is just 1.5 million. I don’t see him being fack-checked in the comments, which he probably would be if he were misrepresenting public production figures.
Finally, the Russian figure is probably very nearly their maximum production rate, where the west has a lot more capacity to ramp up production. And European production is being ramped up substantially.
Those are the sub-munitions, the little bomblets packed inside the larger shell. They’re considered “unsafe” because they leave a bunch of unexploded ordnance randomly dispersed across the battlefield, which is dangerous and expensive to clean up, and you’re never quite sure if you’ve gotten them all.
But that risk isn’t so critical when the only other option is letting Putin win. Misfired bomblets may kill people in the coming years, but a victorious Putin will certainly kill people in the coming years. At least with the bomblets, we have a process to mitigate the worst effects.
Sad, when thousands of unmarked UXO is the lesser of two evils.