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Over the past year, we have seen multiple nations including the United States conducting tests of their nuclear-capable weapons delivery systems. North Korea has been promising to conduct another test detonation of a nuclear bomb for months. Rumors continue to spread that Iran now has enough fissionable material to make a bomb. And, of course, Russia has been reminding everyone of its nuclear arsenal since the invasion of Ukraine began. As the Associated Press reports this week, this has a lot of the other non-nuclear nations looking around and saying, ‘what about us?’ Many of our smaller allies have relied on the United States’ nuclear umbrella to protect them from adversarial nuclear powers, but as they have watched the war in Ukraine unfold, some are having second thoughts. That seems to be particularly true in South Korea, where both citizen activists and government leaders are beginning to talk about developing their own programs. So what would that mean for the world at large?



Out on the sidewalks, 28-year-old office worker Lee Jae Sang already had an opinion about how to respond to North Korea’s fast-growing capacity to lob nuclear bombs across borders and oceans.
“Our country should also develop a nuclear program. And prepare for a possible nuclear war,” said Lee, voicing a desire that a February poll showed was shared by 3 out of 4 South Koreans.

It’s a point that people and politicians of non-nuclear powers globally are raising more often, at what has become a destabilizing moment in more than a half-century of global nuclear nonproliferation efforts, one aggravated by the daily example of nuclear Russia tearing apart non-nuclear Ukraine.

While this may sound like an alarming development (and it definitely is), this is really quite understandable, isn’t it? Think about how poorly Russia’s army has performed during the invasion of Ukraine. Their weaknesses have been exposed to the world. If we lived in a world where nobody had any nuclear weapons, Russia would be a smoking wasteland because EU and NATO forces would have already moved in and beaten the Russians back to the stone age.

But that isn’t going to happen, or at least it won’t unless we crash into a worst-case scenario. The reason is that Russia keeps rattling its nuclear sabers at the rest of the world. And that knowledge allows them to continue attacking Ukraine with impunity. If Ukraine had nukes, Putin probably never would have attacked. If he did and the battle had been going exceptionally badly for Ukraine, Zelensky might just decide to drop a couple on Moscow rather than losing his entire country in a strictly conventional war.


So other countries with smaller militaries and potentially aggressive neighbors are clearly starting to think along the same lines. If they have nukes, perhaps nobody will mess with them either. South Korea seems to be thinking that they might not be able to rely on us as much as they used to and that Kim Jong-un is becoming even more unstable these days. If they have their own nukes, would Kim be less likely to launch an attack against them?

The linked report also points to countries that are invoking the memory of Libia and Moammar Gadhafi. We forced Gadhafi to give up his nuclear program in 2003. His son would later tell a reporter that his father’s greatest fear at the time was that America or other western powers might support an uprising against him at home. Eight years later he was pulled out of a water drainage pipe and shot in the head.

So was nonproliferation always doomed to fail? Will every nation with the money and means to do so soon have some nukes? Mutual Assured Destruction worked for us for a very long time, but would it work for everyone? I hope we’re not at the point where we’re about to find out, but given the current state of the world, I couldn’t rule out the possibility.
 

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Rumors are constantly being spread on the Internet about Russia's alleged huge losses of tanks in Ukraine, some individuals even claim that Russia's losses in Ukraine amount to thousands, so Russia removes old T-62 tanks from storage. Indeed, Russia removed the old tanks from storage and sent them to Ukraine, but not because of fictional huge losses, but because tanks are transferred to the militia, one example of this you will see later in the video, in addition, these tanks are convenient to use as long-term firing points or as mobile artillery, using them from a distance of 3-4 kilometers. Next, the video shows a detachment of Ossetian militia on Russian T-62 tanks.






Russian artillerymen destroyed American 155-mm M-777 howitzers in Ukraine during a counter-battery fight. It is reported that in general, 15 M777 howitzers were destroyed per day, most of which were in the area of the Druzhkovka railway station, the howitzers did not have time to fire a single shot.



 
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Rumors are constantly being spread on the Internet about Russia's alleged huge losses of tanks in Ukraine, some individuals even claim that Russia's losses in Ukraine amount to thousands, so Russia removes old T-62 tanks from storage. Indeed, Russia removed the old tanks from storage and sent them to Ukraine, but not because of fictional huge losses, but because tanks are transferred to the militia, one example of this you will see later in the video, in addition, these tanks are convenient to use as long-term firing points or as mobile artillery, using them from a distance of 3-4 kilometers. Next, the video shows a detachment of Ossetian militia on Russian T-62 tanks.






Russian artillerymen destroyed American 155-mm M-777 howitzers in Ukraine during a counter-battery fight. It is reported that in general, 15 M777 howitzers were destroyed per day, most of which were in the area of the Druzhkovka railway station, the howitzers did not have time to fire a single shot.



Just like how russia destroys 20 tb2s a day.
 

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Merrick Garland: usa send special person to Ukraine. it is Huge serious thing. He is responsible/leading for genocide on civilians (killing, kidnap, raping, torture etc. ). There will be international tribunal or similar when WAR is over for russian officials.
" We and our partners will take every opportunity available to hold accountable all those responsible for these crimes."



Time is ticking for russian officals
 

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Rumors are constantly being spread on the Internet about Russia's alleged huge losses of tanks in Ukraine, some individuals even claim that Russia's losses in Ukraine amount to thousands, so Russia removes old T-62 tanks from storage. Indeed, Russia removed the old tanks from storage and sent them to Ukraine, but not because of fictional huge losses, but because tanks are transferred to the militia, one example of this you will see later in the video, in addition, these tanks are convenient to use as long-term firing points or as mobile artillery, using them from a distance of 3-4 kilometers. Next, the video shows a detachment of Ossetian militia on Russian T-62 tanks.




Seems legit:

 

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Russian troops killed more than 22,000 residents of Mariupol - mayor

June 22, 2022, 12:53

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One of the mass graves in Mariupol

The exact number of dead residents of Mariupol is unlikely to ever be known, as the occupiers are trying in every way to hide their war crimes.

According to official figures, the number of Mariupol residents who died at the hands of the invaders is more than 22 thousand, but the mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko believes that the real number of victims could be much higher. The mayor announced this during a briefing on Wednesday, June 22.



"Our cautious figure, while we could still count, is 22,000 civilians who were killed by the occupying troops. This is many times more than Nazi Germany did during the two years of occupation," Boychenko said.

The mayor and his adviser have repeatedly reported that the exact number of dead residents of Mariupol is unlikely to ever be known, since the occupiers are trying by all means to hide their war crimes.

In particular, the invaders in Mariupol are demolishing houses without removing the bodies of the dead from under the rubble.

Earlier it was reported that at least 25,000 civilians died in Mariupol after the Russian invasion.

People were buried in parks, squares and in the courtyards of houses. Several huge mass graves were discovered around the city.
 

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