Anyway better to spend the bill over the limitl on stocking artillery ammunition, ATGM and standoff weapons. An ICBM cost a hell lot of money.I don't see a problem in agreeing to limit Chinese nukes to 3700 for five or ten years. China can always build more once such a treaty expires
BRUSSELS, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Belgian transport workers' unions on Tuesday called on their members to refuse to handle military equipment being sent to Israel to battle Hamas gunmen.
The ACV Puls, BTB, BBTK and ACV-Transcom unions said in a joint statement that airport workers have seen arms shipments.
"While a genocide is under way in Palestine, workers at various airports in Belgium are seeing arms shipments in the direction of the war zone," the statement said. Israel says it is targeting Hamas military operations and not civilians in Gaza. A Belgian government spokesperson declined to comment on whether arms were shipped to the region via Belgium.
The unions said that loading or offloading these weapons would mean contributing to supplying organisations that kill innocent people.
"We, several unions active in ground logistics, call on our members not to handle any flights that ship military equipment to Palestine/Israel, like there were clear agreements and rules at the start of the conflict with Russia and Ukraine," the unions said.
Bolivia has cut official ties with Israel over the war in Gaza as two other Latin American countries recalled their ambassadors in Tel Aviv for consultations.
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Minister of the Presidency Maria Nela Prada also announced the country would send humanitarian aid to Gaza.
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Bolivia previously , also in protest against Israel’s actions in Gaza. Relations were only restored in 2020.
Former Canadian PM Jean Chretien in China:
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China-Canada ties date back to well before the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1970. The two highly complementary economies cooperate in many fields from trade to climate change. Jean Chretien is the former prime minister of Canada. He has been working with many Chinese leaders from different generations to promote the relationship between the two countries. Now that China and Canada are experiencing some obstacles in the relationship, Chretien argues that complex geopolitical disputes simply need people-to-people exchanges to break through the impasse. Chretien worked hard during his premiership to nurture China-Canada ties, visiting China six times and meeting the Chinese president 17 times. Now the Chretien family is intimately connected with China, with Chretien's grandson Olivier Desmarais chairing the Canada China Business Council. Recently I had a talk with Chretien while he was traveling with four generations of his family in Beijing.
An occupation force won't solve anything anyway as the experience of Afghanistan demonstrates. Prosperity through infrastructure and development is the only way forward. But the US and West can't build anymore, they only know how to destroy.That is an idea like the occupation force (NATO/ISAF) in Afghanistan, except this time China and Russia won't let UN to provide legitimacy like UNSC resolution 1386 did.
It doesn't matter what European leaders want. DC has veto power over their war policy.Looks like Putin is right that Russia can wait out for a victory and good term for peace.
for a split second, I thought Zelensky was standing behind Erdogan to show his support.