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At last.Try not to laugh.
It took us millenia of cultural development but we have finally done it
We now have world leaders using the "you can't hit me, I have a everything proof force field" strategy
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At last.Try not to laugh.
I'm struggling to see exactly what Ukraine or Zelensky get from this "deal"? What would've been different if he had said no? Are we just agreeing to keep sending them 1980's junk at double the original list price or what?
I'm having an impression that trump is trying to recover some of the investments the previous governments made in the oinkraine project. Pretty distasteful if you ask me, but completely in line with trump and the USA in general.Ukraine has no chance. Either sign it or be left to dry.
Of course the political, social and military consequence of saying no is basically Putin stream rolling demoralized Ukranian front lines.
That would make absolute sense, hence it will never happen :rainbows:Best thing to do is get US and Russia to codevelop and invest in mineral production in Ukraine as well as, if EUROfags will do it, European nations.
If the only goal would be to stop being killed, they could unconditionally surrender to RU and be done with the shit they'll go through anyway (oblasts "liberated", whatever territorial concessions, limits on military size, pledge of neutrality) without killing more ukrainian plebs.They get to stop being killed.
- Mom, I want to mine the KhoriumHBO's Chernobyl series foretold the re-emergence of Ukraine's rich mining heritage.
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At least they have that going for them.
In the context of UN peacekeepers they're just armed PaedophilesWhat the fuck is even peacekeeper?
and how it is different from a merc?
Really goes to show how propaganda WW 2 is since it was the same war, but bigger, louder and faster.As is said above: It's pretty rambo - i.e. stupid - to walk in on them like that, esp. when they are scared teenagers playing irl call of duty. No cop would do that.
They weren't kidding when they said this shit is like WW1 overall.
Why… Are peacekeepers necessary again?Try not to laugh.
Wait wut.Try not to laugh.
Try not to laugh.
3 years of this shitshow and I guess at leeast two more to come.
Also check this
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Deal's off. Promising to stop any involvement in this ongoing conflict and chose to switch the shoes on the go.
Fuck. Off. With. That. Bullshit.
At last.
It took us millenia of cultural development but we have finally done it
We now have world leaders using the "you can't hit me, I have a everything proof force field" strategy
The expats. They're apparently the most belligerent.But this does not adress the main lack of Ukraine. Manpower. Who is going to use all this equipment. The eighteen year olds. That will go down well.
Was that not, in fact, exactly what Yanukovych was attempting to do while negotiating with both Russia and the peEU while refusing to sell Ukraine on the cheap to the West?That would make absolute sense, hence it will never happen :rainbows:
Ukrainian draft-dodgers will continue to be the gift that keeps on giving in the EU for a looong time to come.Absolutely classic. Disgusting behavior.
I have heard of this happening with "refugees" in Europe not just from Ukraine but from other countries too.Think I mentioned this before, but when I visited Ukraine, during the war, some of the people who were on the bus from Warsaw were Ukrainian “refugees” going home on holiday to spend their welfare money.
A transport company here, RegioJet, actually STARTED a new line between Prague and Lvov/Kiev in 2022 after the invasion. You get a discount if you have a Ukrainian passport.Think I mentioned this before, but when I visited Ukraine, during the war, some of the people who were on the bus from Warsaw were Ukrainian “refugees” going home on holiday to spend their welfare money.
There is zero fucking reason for any of them to be in the west. Zero.
Ukraine outside of the warzone is totally untouched, if you don’t count the occasional air raid on military targets outside of Kiev or Odessa.
They all came because Ukraine is a corrupt shithole. And the people who used to live in warzone of Donetsk and Lugansk, are only in the west because the Ukrainian government doesn’t want to spend squat on them. Better to send possible “Russians” to the west, rather than spend money on feeding and housing them.
I would have zero problems if they were all picked up at gunpoint if necessary, given a few hundred euros and sent back.
Full text of the agreement is now public:
BILATERAL AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR A RECONSTRUCTION INVESTMENT FUND
WHEREAS the United States of America has provided significant financial and material support to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022;
WHEREAS the American people desire to invest alongside Ukraine in a free, sovereign and secure Ukraine;
WHEREAS the United States of America and Ukraine desire a lasting peace in Ukraine and a durable partnership between their two peoples and governments;
WHEREAS the United States of America and Ukraine recognize the contribution that Ukraine has made to strengthening international peace and security by voluntarily abandoning the world's third largest arsenal of nuclear weapons;
WHEREAS the United States of America and Ukraine wish to ensure that those States and other persons that have acted adversely to Ukraine in the conflict do not benefit from the reconstruction of Ukraine following a lasting peace;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Ukraine (each, a “Participant”) hereby enter into this Bilateral Agreement Establishing Terms and Conditions for a Reconstruction Investment Fund to deepen the partnership between the United States of America and Ukraine, as set forth herein.
1. The Governments of Ukraine and the United States of America, with the aim of achieving lasting peace in Ukraine, intend to establish a Reconstruction Investment Fund (Fund), partnering in the Fund through joint ownership, to be further defined in the Fund Agreement. Joint ownership will take into consideration the actual contributions of the Participants as defined in Sections 3 and 4. The Fund will be jointly managed by representatives of the Government of Ukraine and the Government of the United States of America. More detailed terms pertaining to the Fund’s governance and operation will be set forth in a subsequent agreement (the Fund Agreement) to be negotiated promptly after the conclusion of this Bilateral Agreement. The maximum percentage of ownership of the Fund’s equity and financial interests to be held by the Government of the United States of America and the decision-making authority of the representatives of the Government of the United States of America will be to the extent permissible under applicable United States laws.
Neither Participant will sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, any portion of its interest in the Fund without the prior written consent of the other Participant.
2. The Fund will collect and reinvest revenues contributed to the Fund, minus expenses incurred by the Fund, and will earn income from the future monetization of all relevant Ukrainian Government-owned natural resource assets (whether owned directly or indirectly by the Ukrainian Government), as defined in Section 3
3. The Government of Ukraine will contribute to the Fund 50 percent of all revenues earned from the future monetization of all relevant Ukrainian Government-owned natural resource assets (whether owned directly or indirectly by the Ukrainian Government), defined as deposits of minerals, hydrocarbons, oil, natural gas, and other extractable materials, and other infrastructure relevant to natural resource assets (such as liquified natural gas terminals and port infrastructure) as agreed by both Participants, as may be further described in the Fund Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, such future sources of revenues do not include the current sources of revenues which are already part of the general budget revenues of Ukraine. Timeline, scope and sustainability of contributions will be further defined in the Fund Agreement.
The Fund, in its sole discretion, may credit or return to the Government of Ukraine actual expenses incurred by the newly developed projects from which the Fund receives revenues.
Contributions made to the Fund will be reinvested at least annually in Ukraine to promote the safety, security and prosperity of Ukraine, to be further defined in the Fund Agreement. The Fund Agreement will also provide for future distributions.
4. Subject to applicable United States law, the Government of the United States of America will maintain a long-term financial commitment to the development of a stable and economically prosperous Ukraine. Further contributions may be comprised of funds, financial instruments, and other tangible and intangible assets critical for the reconstruction of Ukraine.
5. The Fund's investment process will be designed so as to invest in projects in Ukraine and attract investments to increase the development, processing and monetization of all public and private Ukrainian assets including, but not limited to, deposits of minerals, hydrocarbons, oil, natural gas, and other extractable materials, infrastructure, ports, and state-owned enterprises as may be further described in the Fund Agreement. The Government of the United States of America and the Government of Ukraine intend that the investment process will lead to opportunities for distribution of additional funds and greater reinvestment, to ensure the sufficient supply of capital for the reconstruction of Ukraine as set out in the Fund Agreement.
The Participants reserve the right to take such action as necessary to protect and maximize the value of their economic interests in the Fund.
6. The Fund Agreement will include appropriate representations and warranties, including those necessary to ensure that any obligations the Government of Ukraine may have to third parties, or such obligations that it may undertake in the future, do not sell, convey, transfer pledge, or otherwise encumber the Government of Ukraine’s contributions to the Fund or the assets from which such contributions are derived, or the Fund’s disposition of funds.
In drafting the Fund Agreement, the Participants will strive to avoid conflicts with Ukraine’s obligations under its accession to the European Union or its obligations under arrangements with international financial institutions and other official creditors.
7. The Fund Agreement will provide, inter alia, an acknowledgment that both the Fund Agreement and the activities provided for therein are commercial in nature.
The Fund agreement shall be ratified by the Parliament of Ukraine according to the Law of Ukraine "On International Treaties of Ukraine."
8. The Fund Agreement will pay particular attention to the control mechanisms that make it impossible to weaken, violate or circumvent sanctions and other restrictive measures.
9. The text of the Fund Agreement will be developed without delay by working groups chaired by authorized representatives of the Government of Ukraine and the Government of the United States of America. Contact persons responsible for preparing the Fund Agreement on the basis of this Bilateral Agreement are: from the Government of the United States of America: the Department of the Treasury; from the Government of Ukraine: Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Economy.
10. This Bilateral Agreement and the Fund Agreement will constitute integral elements of the architecture of bilateral and multilateral agreements, as well as concrete steps to establish lasting peace, and to strengthen economic security resilience and reflect the objectives set forth in the preamble to this Bilateral Agreement.
The Government of the United States of America supports Ukraine’s efforts to obtain security guarantees needed to establish lasting peace. Participants will seek to identify any necessary steps to protect mutual investments, as defined in the Fund Agreement.
11. This Bilateral Agreement is binding and will be implemented by each Participant according to its domestic procedures. The Government of the United States of America and the Government of Ukraine commit to proceed forthwith to negotiate the Fund Agreement.
My dad wasn't in korea, but he had a friend from greece (merc stuff?) who was there with the u.s. and he told him about a few times he saw army guys with revolvers closing in on scared koreans shooting them dead like in wild west movies - upright, running from house corner to house corner at best, sometimes shit went wrong and they were ass blasted by koreans too - he must've told it in a lot of detail and it must've blown my dad's mind, else he wouldn't have retold it himself - didn't seem like bullshit. The greek guy was bewildered and hated those types of guys. First for putting the unit at risk, sometimes dropping like flies and second for going exterminator on kids scared shitless. I'm really wondering when tactics or taking prisoners even became a thing sometimes or if ever at all.Really goes to show how propaganda WW 2 is since it was the same war, but bigger, louder and faster.