So does ukraine getting EU candidate status have any implications outside of edging closer to becoming an EU member?
Morale. It gives the people hope, something to fight for. Don’t underestimate that.
As for direct impact, probably very little. The best it will do is organically increase the donations through political alignment. It’s a formalising of Ukraine being part of the EU sphere rather than being a Russian puppet state.
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Largely symbolic.
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■■■■ Putin off even more. So that is a good thing.
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Once candidature accepted, eligible for EU structural funds.
UA has been getting its own house in order
- anti corruption legislation
- revoking some CIS arrangements
- ratified the Istanbul Convention combatting violence against women and children.
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Fk I hope Ukraine can get ontop of russia, zelensky’s doing great things for his country in a nightmare time.
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that is insane
More posturing and empty threats by Russia. The State Duma called for a strike on the US embassy in Kyiv due to the supply of MLRS to Ukraine.
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Isn’t that an act of war against the US?
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DoD list is up on the War Zone section of thedrive.com site.
thedrive.com
Reference to additional HIMARS subject to conditions. UA training under way.
List includes 36k rounds of 105mm ammunition.
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Yep, it would be.
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Relevant Vienna Conventions on diplomatic relations impose the obligation on the host country to protect the diplomatic premises.
Embassies do not have the status of foreign territory.
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Correct. But the “attacked” nation gets to decide what they choose to label “an act of war” , and I’d suggest that a deliberate targeting of a US embassy by Russian military would be, and would be called, an act of war.
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Did the US declare war on Iran in 1979?
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Was it initially an Iranian sanctioned military action?
Not at all sure it’s equivalent.
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It was a treaty duty to protect the Embassy and those with diplomatic status and it was within the power of the Iran Government to secure thr release the diplomatic hostages, which it eventually did.
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