Wow, I hope the tense situation between America and Iran don't escalate since both countries are hell bent on showing who's tougher on seizing tankers.
Ukraine isn’t ready for its big offensive, but it has no choice. Kyiv is locked into a spring or summer push despite burning through ammo so fast that the West can’t keep up.
Kyiv has little real choice but to launch a major spring or summer offensive. President Zelenskyy has managed the West with great skill, but to maintain its support he has to show what Washington insiders rather tastelessly call a “return on investment”.
Zelenskyy must also balance domestic politics. Hawks such as Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, prevent any meaningful talk about negotiations, even though some in the government think now is the time to put out feelers. One western diplomat in Kyiv described a “surreal parallel experience” as his interlocutors “discuss potential formats for negotiations one evening” and then “shout that there can be no talks with Russia” in public the next day.
Weapons are no good without ammo
There are also sharp limits to what the West can do. While there are calls for new and more weapons to be provided, from ATACMS (Army Tactile Missile System) long-range missiles to F-16 jets, it is not just caution or parsimony that holds the West back. One of the key issues is that of ammunition: sending more weapons systems is of little value without the shells, bullets or missiles that they are consuming at a prodigious rate.
At present, for example, the Ukrainians expend more 155mm shells in a month than America produces in a year. The West is investing in new production capacity, but this takes months or years. Ammunition cannot be conjured out of the air and Paris is blocking the EU from buying supplies outside the bloc.
Don't make comment on issues you frankly don't have any good grasp on dude.That’s exactly the type of strong man tactics big countries use to dominate smaller countries. And exactly the way to push PH further towards the Americans.
Officials in Israel have raised concerns about the dwindling stockpile of US munitions stored in the country, as in recent months, Washington has been quietly shipping the armament via the Port of Ashdod to Ukraine.
“These are Israel’s reserve stockpiles for times of war … The move has had a bigger implication in light of the threats on Israel in multiple theaters,” an unnamed former cabinet minister told .
A US official also confirmed that “it is still not clear when the reserves will be restocked,” as the US war machine has pivoted from fueling conflict in West Asia to new fronts in Ukraine and Taiwan.
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), an autonomous government organization that for India’s 256 million primary and secondary students, had made the move as part of a “content rationalization” process. NCERT first removed discussion of Darwinian evolution from the textbooks at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to streamline online classes, the society says. (Last year, NCERT that said it wanted to avoid content that was “irrelevant” in the “present context.”)
Despite the growing protest, there is “not much hope” that NCERT “will suddenly admit the mistake and revisit the decision,” says Aniket Sule, an astronomer and science advocate at the . Biologist Satyajit Rath, former president of the , is also pessimistic. “Will [the protest] make any difference? Given the recent trajectories of such decisions of the government of India, probably not, at least over the short term."
NCERT’s move comes amid what some see as the growing influence of pseudoscience in India. Researchers and politicians linked to conservative Hindu organizations have voiced doubts about evolution and promoted .
And some observers fear India’s move could embolden evolution deniers in adjoining nations, including Pakistan. There, notes physicist , a Pakistani science advocate, biology textbooks are already prefaced with notes warning readers that they will “encounter the theory of evolution—but you are advised not to believe it because it is unscientific, lacks proof, and goes against Islam.”
Come on, it's time to unleash the soft power of Japan and the USA!
Not that Indians were particularly adept at scientific research, but it seems liberal democracies often devolve into fascistic theocracies or theocratic fascism.Yeah Ukraine is really a huge liability, now even Israel is complaining:
as US depletes reserve stockpiles to fuel Ukraine war
Look, India is taking solid steps to improve its education system!
Scientists in India protest
India has removed discussion of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution from textbooks used by millions of students in ninth and 10th grades.
This is a clear case of USA trying to provoke tensions.