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Why is sending troops different from sending military equipment?
The "trivially true", but probably unsatisfying answer, is simply "because the relevant parties agreed that to be the case".
The rest are just narratives that the relevant parties ...
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Are the UK, Germany and USA not concerned about their (donated) tanks being captured and researched by Russia?
The tanks being donated by the US are the M1A1. The M1A1 Abrams tanks were produced from 1986 to 1992.
The M1A1 is a very old tank. The latest ones are the M1A2SEP (with work being done on the M1A3)....
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Are the UK, Germany and USA not concerned about their (donated) tanks being captured and researched by Russia?
I think there's an underlying assumption here that the difference in tank quality between the US and Russia is in large part down to US military secrets that Russia does not know. There is in fact a ...
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Are the UK, Germany and USA not concerned about their (donated) tanks being captured and researched by Russia?
Tactics vs. Tech
It has been said that the US could gift a supercarrier to any other country, but it would take them a decade or more to actually make it combat-ready. This is not for lack of fuel or ...
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Are the UK, Germany and USA not concerned about their (donated) tanks being captured and researched by Russia?
In general, the DoD sells (and/or allows manufacturers to sell) variations of military vehicles to friendly nations. In other words, any tanks a country may provide to another nation are certainly ...
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Are the UK, Germany and USA not concerned about their (donated) tanks being captured and researched by Russia?
I have followed the German debate on this issue, and the risk of secret technology being leaked was probably the third most common argument against providing Leopard IIs to Ukraine (after "...
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Are the UK, Germany and USA not concerned about their (donated) tanks being captured and researched by Russia?
There are some concerns, but also mitigating factors.
Challenger 2 is being replaced in service with Challenger 3.
The US also sold Abrams to a lot of Middle East countries. I think the armor package ...
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Are the UK, Germany and USA not concerned about their (donated) tanks being captured and researched by Russia?
There is little information on western armor that has not already been extensively published in open journals and news reports that Russia has access to.
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Are the UK, Germany and USA not concerned about their (donated) tanks being captured and researched by Russia?
Has there been any concern from any of the countries donating armoured vehicles, with one of these secretive armour types, that one of their donated vehicles may be captured by Russian forces and ...
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Are the UK, Germany and USA not concerned about their (donated) tanks being captured and researched by Russia?
Abrams was designed in 1972–1975, Leopard 2 in 1970s. Only Challenger 2 is newer, designed in 1986–1993. Hence the basic models are not very new. Challenger 3 and Abrams X are coming.
Parts that have ...
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Why is the ICC focusing on the transfer of war orphans to Russia rather than Russia's much more obvious crimes in Ukraine?
A Michael Tracy investigation illustrates that although the USA does not recognize the authority of the ICC in general it has made several exceptions such as Syria.
The ICC arrest warrant seems to be ...
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Why does Russia reject China's peace proposal?
What are the conditions he's referring to and why exactly Russia doesn't consider the peace proposal fair?
It's hard to say with utter certainty, as Russia is not fond of speaking clearly, but Russia'...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
The Democrats being democratic were vehemently vocal since 2012 about opposition to a recently genocidal police rogue state and a very powerful white nation run by a rogue spy in the middle of the map ...
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Why does Russia reject China's peace proposal?
Putin may like the Chinese plan, but he may not like the postive PR that China will get due to it. If Chinese mediation is successful, the press will say China has become Russia's equal. While Putin ...
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Why does Russia reject China's peace proposal?
TLDR: China's peace plan is so vague that Putin can easily agree to "most" of it
China's plan, published last month, does not explicitly call for Russia to leave Ukraine.
[...] it calls for ...
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Why does Russia reject China's peace proposal?
Russia does not want to move out of the annexed territories of Ukraine. And the 12 item proposal by China lists the respect of all countries' territorial sovereignty as the first item, read it at my....
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Why does Russia reject China's peace proposal?
Russia has not rejected the plan, as can be seen from a statement by Putin:
Putin supported China's peace plan for Ukraine, but there is a nuance
The Presidents of Russia and China made a joint ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
Not mentioned yet: this is a clear sign to other countries that fighting against NATO is a supremely bad idea. If old NATO weapons and NATO training are already this effective, who is going to ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
The USA has a first past the post system of democracy similar to the UK. This gives the illusion of democracy but in fact is likely closer to the Chinese one party system than true democracy.
The US ...
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Exit strategies for the Ukraine war
Are there signs that Ukraine and the West would be willing to, however grudgingly, factually (but not politically or legally) accept a Russian occupation and enter cease-fire talks? The benefits of, ...
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What is the rationale of shooting toxic shells in an area that was meant to be liberated?
Now I am wondering if the point of this war is to free the territory to allow the Ukrainian population to go back there in the future why contaminate it?
Because destroyed land is still better than ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
Because Ukraine is actually the front for the world map chess game between US and Russia. Whoever dominates this chess piece today will have the momentum and image to project superpower status in the ...
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Why is the ICC focusing on the transfer of war orphans to Russia rather than Russia's much more obvious crimes in Ukraine?
Here's a very very very cynical answer. The ICC is aware that the war is an emotionally charged affair, and there are a lot of entrenched views that effectively cannot be shifted. This is the kind of ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
In 1994 the US provided security assurances to Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear stockpile (which at the time was the third largest in the word). 20 years later Russia invaded and ...
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What is the rationale of shooting toxic shells in an area that was meant to be liberated?
Depleted uranium is not toxic the way chemical weapons are, and it is not radioactive the way nuclear weapons are. While it is actually both toxic and radioactive, these effects are weak enough to ...
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What is the rationale of shooting toxic shells in an area that was meant to be liberated?
The reason to use depleted uranium shells is to penetrate armored military equipment, thus speeding up elimination of the invading and highly environmentally damaging Russian army.
The environmental ...
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What is the rationale of shooting toxic shells in an area that was meant to be liberated?
DU ammunition is used for 2 reasons, neither of which have to do with nuclear/radiation based weaponry effects. These make it into a top-performance solution for anti-armor applications. Albeit one ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
The US, as one of the signatories of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, guarantees the territorial integrity of Ukraine. The Memorandum itself does not require the US to defend Ukraine themselves but it ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
The majority of American public supports providing weapons to Ukraine. Since it is a democracy, the government follows the will of the people and provides military aid to Ukraine.
This is consistent ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
At 0.4% of GDP total US aid commitments (this includes non-military aid -- military aid is about 0.2% of GDP) are similar to the UK, but only 2/3rds that of Poland. Some people might not consider that ...
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What is the rationale of shooting toxic shells in an area that was meant to be liberated?
Depleted uranium is used in shells for its other useful physical properties in this context (such as high density). Toxicity after this use is a side effect, not the purpose. If Ukrainian forces use ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
the support is designed to continue the war
It's easy to assume that an "eternal war" is USA's goal, but you have to consider that them giving more materiel to Ukraine so that they could ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
The US (like any other country supporting Ukraine) is of the view that, in the 21st century, no country is supposed to redefine its borders by force. Any wars aiming for that should remain history ...
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What evidence has the ICC relied on in ordering the arrest of the President of Russia?
What evidence has the court based its decision to issue arrest warrants on?
It is not disclosed.
The Rome Statute 58(3) does not require so.
From the Rome Statute 58(1)(b)(ii) it follows that the ...
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What evidence has the ICC relied on in ordering the arrest of the President of Russia?
Reports first emerged last spring that Ukrainian children in occupied territory were being taken to Russia, and some adopted by Russian families. This includes children taken from Ukrainian state ...
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Why is the ICC focusing on the transfer of war orphans to Russia rather than Russia's much more obvious crimes in Ukraine?
Because this crime is much easier to prove and less likely to start open ended discussions on who has invaded whom.
Russia have not been hiding these children deportations, just that they presented ...
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What evidence has the ICC relied on in ordering the arrest of the President of Russia?
It the indictment public? (As opposed to the press release.) I couldn't find the former. That was not an uncommon strategy for ICTY as well (before apprehending the suspects), as I vaguely recall. ...
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Why is the ICC focusing on the transfer of war orphans to Russia rather than Russia's much more obvious crimes in Ukraine?
Three excellent answers are here so far, but two critically important aspects seem to have slipped from the existing answers. Here they are:
It is not "just" about the forced deportation. ...
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Why is the ICC focusing on the transfer of war orphans to Russia rather than Russia's much more obvious crimes in Ukraine?
Because if you want to indict Putin on an ICC-indictable crime it is better to pick one where the alleged crime is publicly sanctioned and acknowledged by high ranking members of the Russian ...
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Why is the ICC focusing on the transfer of war orphans to Russia rather than Russia's much more obvious crimes in Ukraine?
Mass children abduction is not a "minor" crime. Connecting with Putin's denial of Ukraine as a separate nation and country, it is one of five acts that constitute genocide.
forcibly ...
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Why is the ICC focusing on the transfer of war orphans to Russia rather than Russia's much more obvious crimes in Ukraine?
So why is the ICC starting out from a very minor crime rather than prosecuting Putin for starting the war in the first place?
The crime of starting a war of aggression is specifically not in ICC's ...
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Did Russia communicate President Vladimir Putin's planned Mariupol visit to Ukraine for deconfliction purposes?
In fact, letting the Ukrainians know in advance might have the opposite effect.
Consider back in May 2022, when Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff, made a visit to the front lines. Obviously,...
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What's the point of issuing an arrest warrant for Putin given that the chances of him getting arrested are effectively zero?
The probability of arrest is not relevant. The court considers there are reasonable grounds to believe that Putin and Lvova-Belova are responsible for the forced transfer of children from occupied ...
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Did Russia communicate President Vladimir Putin's planned Mariupol visit to Ukraine for deconfliction purposes?
Ukraine has very limited abilities to strike Mariupol. It's not in HIMARS range. For the same reason Kadyrov's sons went to the "front line" there, i.e. showed up at some training camp and ...
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What's the point of issuing an arrest warrant for Putin given that the chances of him getting arrested are effectively zero?
The chances are not effectively zero
There are numerous examples from similar countries, like Idi Amin from Uganda, who had felt infallible, yet he was finally overthrown and found asylum in Saudi ...
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What's the point of issuing an arrest warrant for Putin given that the chances of him getting arrested are effectively zero?
So it's said, Putin currently depends on both foreign mercenary groups and wealthy oligarchs, any of whom might see profit in snatching him up and delivering him to the ICC. We think of strong-men ...
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Why didn’t the USA government ask USA companies to take action against India’s neutral stance on the Russo-Ukrainian War?
It is questionable whether USA companies realistically take action against a sovereign country (India).
This is unlikely to yield change in policy but may easily cause execs of said companies' ...
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