R Johansen
Hindustan Times
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Comments by "R Johansen" (@rjohansen9486) on "NATO Nation Lauds Russian Army; Finland Questions West's Military Capability | "Overestimated..."" video.
Hmm, why didn't HT mention more of his speech?? here's more:
"While the battlefield is frozen, over the long term “Ukraine has a good chance to win this because Western countries have bigger economic muscles and can ramp up their defense industry to the kind of levels that Russia can’t compete with,” Häkkänen added. “We can do it, and Ukraine can, but it needs decisive steps from Western countries.”
Part of the issue with increased military production in the West, Häkkänen said, was the slow recognition that Russia’s full-scale invasion permanently changed the political landscape of Europe.
“I think many Western countries were thinking that this was a short-term” problem, he said. “But now I think that in the U.S. and in NATO countries, almost everyone knows that this is the end of the last 30 years” since the Soviet Union fell. “Now we’re going into some kind of a new cold war.”
This month, Häkkänen’s government announced it is doubling its production of ammunition, committing to send much of it to Ukraine as it struggles with thinning supplies from Western allies and the slow buildup of production capabilities in the U.S. and Europe.
Other European officials share his concern.
Belgian Defense Chief Michel Hofman, while visiting Belgian soldiers stationed in Romania this week, warned that Russia has “already shown that they have the will to attack a neighbor,” and “it is absolutely possible that they will also have other ideas later. Either in the south in Moldova or the Baltic states.”
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@TrandafiraPP Putin/russia has broken all the agreements up to now, including all the Minsk and the Budapest agreements.
Are you talking about this from 1991 (people with 90 % brain damage would still see that putin has violated that agreement):
"We, the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Ukraine, as founder states of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which signed the 1922 Union Treaty, further described as the high contracting parties, conclude that the USSR has ceased to exist as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality.
Taking as our basis the historic community of our peoples and the ties which have been established between them, taking into account the bilateral treaties concluded between the high contracting parties;
striving to build democratic law-governed states; intending to develop our relations on the basis of mutual recognition AND RESPECT FOR STATE SOVEREIGNTY, the inalienable RIGHT TO SELF- DETERMINATION, the principles of equality and NON-INTERFERENCE IN INTERNAL AFFAIRS, REPUDIATION OF THE USE OF FORCE and of economic or any other methods of coercion, settlement of contentious problems by means of mediation and other generally recognized principles and norms of international law;
considering that further development and strengthening of relations of friendship, good-neighborliness and mutually beneficial co-operation between our states correspond to the vital national interests of their peoples and serve the cause of peace and security;
confirming our adherence to the goals and principles of the United Nations Charter, the Helsinki Final Act and other documents of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe"
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