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Ukraine is terminating the Russian-Ukrainian Friendship Treaty of 1997. 
The treaty prevents Ukraine and Russia from invading one another's country respectively, and declaring war. 
On 19 September 2018, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree not to extend the treaty. 

Ukraine announced its intention not to renew the treaty in September 2018. By doing so the treaty did expire on 31 March 2019. The treaty was also known as the "Big Treaty".

On 3 December 2018, Poroshenko drafted a legislation to Parliament to end the Treaty of Friendship immediately; with support coming from Western allies within the United Nations Security Council.

So who started the problem? May be both.

Who is loosing in this conflict? All countries who encouraged and supported the conflict.

 Just a thought.

Gas..

 

Under UK new strategy, the government will speed up construction of offshore wind farms by reforming planning laws, hope to generate enough electricity to power every home in the country by 2030.

The government wants to see as many as eight nuclear reactors built over the next decade. It hopes nuclear energy can supply a quarter of UK electricity by 2050.

But fossil fuels are getting a new lease of life. Government plans include a licensing round later this year for more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.

Consultancy Wood Mackenzie estimates that the United Kingdom could produce the equivalent of another 5 billion barrels of oil if it takes advantage of all its resources.

Yet North Sea research director at Wood Mackenzie, said that the country will remain "heavily reliant on [gas] imports in all scenarios" in the years to come.

last year, all the politicians were singing the Climate Change/Fossil Fuel problems. A year later they all looking to produce more before they get bankrupt.  

Just a thought.

Warning..

 

Democrat Kathy Hochul holds a slim 4-percentage-point lead over presumptive Republican Party nominee Lee Zeldin in the race for governor, a new survey reveals.

The same poll shows Zeldin leading disgraced ex-Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo by six percentage

Points in a hypothetical match-up.

The survey of 830 likely voters — conducted by research company co/efficient for the Republican consulting firm Big Dog Strategies — has a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.

There are warning signs for Hochul, according to the poll. Forty-one percent of voters view her unfavorably and 31% favorably — with more than a quarter undecided.

Defund..

 

NY Democrat's solution to the problem is to defund the police. Is not working.

Human..

 

Sanctions generate meaningful change only about forty per cent of the time. Years of sanctions failed in North Korea, Venezuela, and Iraq. Cuba has faced layers of U.S. trade and arms embargoes since 1960. 

The Communist regime is still in power. The Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, faced multiple sanctions after the Arab Spring uprising, in 2011, turned into a civil war. Yet Assad is still firmly entrenched in Damascus. 

Sanctions are often sagas. Success in South Africa took three decades. The Iran model, which the U.S. has invoked for Russia, has had gyrating effects. 

Sanctions also produce heartbreak. 

The agony is the differential in timing. A gun, shell, or bomb can kill in seconds. Sanctions take a comparative eon in the scheme of war or a humanitarian crisis. 

 “They rarely work,” Benn Steil, of the Council on Foreign Relations, said. “But, when they do work, they tend to take a very long time.”

So sanctions really is a mean of creating a humanitarian crisis. It impacts the poor people in the society. 

President Biden Said "expect Food Shortage." A heart worming message to the world during the Easter Holidays.  Just a thought.

Famine..

Great dollops of hypocrisy invariably accompany expressions of concern by outside powers for the wellbeing of the Syrian people. But even by these low standards, a new record for self-serving dishonesty is being set by the Caesar Civilian Protection Act, the new US law imposing the harshest sanctions in the world on Syria and bringing millions of Syrians to the brink of famine.

Supposedly aimed at safeguarding ordinary Syrians from violent repression by President Bashar al-Assad, the law is given a humanitarian garnish by naming it after the Syrian military photographer. But instead of protecting Syrians, as it claims, the Caesar Act is a measure of collective punishment that is impoverishing people in government and opposition-held areas alike.  

though the situation in Syria was after 10 years of warfare and a long-standing economic embargo, the crisis has got much worse in the nine months since the law was implemented on 17 June last year. It has raised the number of Syrians who are close to starvation to 12.4 million, or 60 per cent of the population, according to the UN.  

Already, more than half a million children under the age of five are suffering from stunting as the result of chronic malnutrition. As the Syrian currency collapsed and prices rose by 230 per cent over the last year, Syrian families could no longer afford to buy basic foodstuffs such as bread, rice, lentils, oil and sugar.  

Is this the goal of sanctions?  Are we helping the poor people or hurting them?

Work..

A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last days has revealed the most common regrets we have at the end of our lives. And among the top, from men in particular, is 'I wish I hadn't worked so hard'.

Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, 

   I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

  I wish I hadn't worked so hard.  

"This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship. 

Women also spoke of this regret, but as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence. 

Just a "Workaholic" Thought.

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