Conversations on Vietnam Development
CAND – Thứ Hai, 08/04/2024, 07:10
Ngày 4/4, 32 ngoại trưởng NATO đã tổ chức lễ kỷ niệm 75 năm ngày ký kết Hiệp ước Bắc Đại Tây Dương tại Washington (4/4/1949). Vào thời điểm đó, cuộc đối đầu với Liên Xô thể hiện thông qua việc phong tỏa Berlin và ngày nay logic đối đầu với Nga rõ ràng đã quay trở lại. Để chuẩn bị, NATO muốn giành lại quyền kiểm soát việc hỗ trợ quân sự trực tiếp cho Ukraine.
ANTG – Thứ Hai, 05/02/2024, 08:27
Châu Âu chìm trong khủng hoảng năng lượng. Các công ty châu Âu đang dần chuyển hướng sang Mỹ. Người Mỹ thì lợi dụng điều này để bán khí thiên nhiên hóa lỏng (LNG) cho châu Âu với giá cao.
Không còn lựa chọn nào khác, châu Âu đang bắt đầu xây dựng các bến cảng lớn để tiếp nhận hàng từ Mỹ. Thế nhưng, sau đó, Mỹ tuyên bố đình chỉ các dự án LNG và sẽ không cung cấp cho châu Âu trong những năm tới.
Tổng thống Mỹ Joe Biden ngày 26/1 công bố lệnh tạm dừng xây dựng các kho cảng xuất khẩu LNG mới. Theo dữ liệu do tổ chức quốc tế Cedigaz công bố, trong năm 2023, Mỹ là nước xuất khẩu LNG hàng đầu thế giới. Theo Nhà Trắng, khoảng một nửa lượng xuất khẩu LNG vào năm 2023 được xuất khẩu sang châu Âu, do lục địa này đã chấm dứt việc nhập khẩu khí đốt của Nga kể từ khi nổ ra cuộc xung đột tại Ukraine.
Một cảng xuất khẩu khí thiên nhiên hóa lỏng ở Mỹ.
Tiếp tục đọc “Nga, trừng phạt và mâu thuẫn giữa hai bờ Đại Tây Dương”ANTG – Thứ Hai, 21/08/2023, 08:30
Cuộc chiến ở Ukraine đặt ra mối đe dọa nghiêm trọng đối với an ninh lương thực toàn cầu. Nga và Ukraine, thường được coi là “vựa lúa mỳ” của thế giới, nằm trong số những nhà sản xuất và xuất khẩu ngũ cốc và hạt có dầu quan trọng nhất.
Là nạn nhân trực tiếp của sự gián đoạn trong chuỗi cung ứng toàn cầu, các quốc gia phụ thuộc nhiều nhất vào nhập khẩu nông sản từ Nga và Ukraine đang phải đối mặt với những khó khăn thực sự về nguồn cung thực phẩm.
Với “Lục địa Đen”, cuộc chiến ở Ukraine đã đe dọa trực tiếp tới an ninh lương thực.
Tiếp tục đọc “Nhiều nước đối mặt khó khăn nguồn cung lương thực”A year ago, Russia stopped supplying gas to the EU through the Nord Stream pipeline to hurt the bloc for its overwhelming support for Ukraine. The weaponization of its gas supplies has ended up hurting Moscow more
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN
Published 2:42 PM EDT, Fri March 17, 2023
After more than a year of international outrage at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and shocking atrocities, there’s an arrest warrant out for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The International Criminal Court on Friday announced charges against Putin and Russian official Maria Lvova-Belova relating to an alleged scheme to forcibly deport thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia.
Read CNN’s full report about the charges and the arrest warrant.
And read about the scheme involving Ukrainian children taken to Russia.
Russia rejected the allegations Friday, and a ministry of foreign affairs spokeswoman said the court has “no meaning” in Russia.
Tiếp tục đọc “How war crimes prosecutions work”By Caitlin Hu, CNN
Updated 9:03 PM EDT, Fri March 17, 2023
ICC chief prosecutor reacts to Putin arrest warrant
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor believes Russian President Vladimir Putin could stand trial for alleged crimes committed during Russia’s war in Ukraine, he told CNN on Friday, despite Moscow’s arguments that it is not subject to the court’s decisions.
In an interview with CNN’s Clarissa Ward, Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan pointed to historic trials of Nazi war criminals, former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milošević, and former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, among others.
“All of them were mighty, powerful individuals and yet they found themselves in courtrooms,” he said.
Tiếp tục đọc “The ICC issued arrest warrants on Friday for Putin and Russian official Maria Lvova-Belov”February 14, 2023 by James Kneebone
The security of supply of gas has been the hottest topic of the last 12 months since Russia invaded Ukraine. James Kneebone at the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) has written an explainer that lays out the EU’s history of dealing with energy security, going back to the 1990s. Because the EU has a single market for natural gas and widely shared value chains (pipelines, LNG terminals, storage, etc.), impacts are felt across the bloc. But that interconnectedness is also a strength and the basis for ensuring security across the region. Kneebone also details the updated regulations that are behind the drive to build in new capacity and obligations for solidarity between Member States. It means that today, the coordination and cooperation for allocating resources and delivering better energy security are stronger than ever.
The European Environment Agency (EEA) define security of energy supply as “…the availability of energy at all times in various forms, in sufficient quantities, and at reasonable and/or affordable prices.” In the context of gas security of supply specifically, the concept refers to the provision of gaseous energy, namely ‘natural gas’[1].
Tiếp tục đọc “Gas: a history of Energy Security in the EU. And what’s next post-Russia?”
“Ukraine is still independent and free,” Biden said in Warsaw.
February 22, 2023, 12:08 AM, ABC
‘Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia,’ Biden says
President Biden made remarks in Poland ahead of the anniversary of the war in Ukraine. Tiếp tục đọc “Biden speaks in Poland after surprise trip to Ukraine: ‘Kyiv stands strong’”
FEBRUARY 16, 2023, 10:06 AM FP
By Faine Greenwood, an expert on unmanned aerial vehicles, technology in humanitarian aid, remote sensing, spatial data, and data policy and ethics.
A Ukrainian serviceman holds up a drone carrying a mock grenade in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on Feb. 9. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Almost a year after Russian tanks first began rolling over the border into Ukraine, a war many expected would be over within a month continues to grind on. It’s grimly reminiscent of European conflicts of the 20th century—but it’s also the first war in history where both sides have made extensive use of cheap, startlingly effective small drones, the kind that can be bought at electronics stores or built with simple hobby kits.
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion, I knew two things for sure. First, that Ukraine was going to stun the world with what it could do with small do-it-yourself and consumer drones, a skillset that their drone hobbyists and tech experts had been tirelessly expanding ever since Russia’s earlier invasion in 2014 – efforts led by now-famous volunteer drone organizations like Aerorozvidka, whose members had become some of the world’s premier experts on building, modifying, and using small, cheap drones in warfare. Second, I knew that as an expert in both consumer and hobby drones, I was going to do my best to document what happened next.
Tiếp tục đọc “The Drone War in Ukraine Is Cheap, Deadly, and Made in China”‘Tactical nuclear weapons are a particularly serious threat,’ Norwegian intelligence report says.
FEBRUARY 14, 2023 2:04 PM CET, politico.eu
While war rages in Ukraine, Norway’s intelligence service is warning of the increasing importance of Russia’s nuclear “deterrent” in the Arctic waters of the far north.
“As the importance of nuclear weapons and strategic deterrent forces increases, the Northern Fleet’s defense of the military bases in Kola, the Northern Bastion and the Barents Sea is also becoming more important,” the Norwegian Intelligence Service said in its annual report.
Tiếp tục đọc “Norway warns of growing importance of Russian nuclear ‘deterrent’ in Arctic”*Nord Stream is a network of natural gas pipelines run under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany
‘Colossal amount’ of leaked methane, twice initial estimates, is equivalent to third of Denmark’s annual CO2 emissions or 1.3m cars
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Scientists fear methane erupting from the burst Nord Stream pipelines into the Baltic Sea could be one of the worst natural gas leaks ever and pose significant climate risks.
Neither of the two breached Nord Stream pipelines, which run between Russia and Germany, was operational, but both contained natural gas. This mostly consists of methane – a greenhouse gas that is the biggest cause of climate heating after carbon dioxide.
Biden warmed to a path suggested by Blinken and Sullivan and a plan proposed by Milley and Austin.
02:15 /02:29 ABC News
Jan. 26, 2023, 4:30 AM EST
By Courtney Kube, Carol E. Lee and Abigail Williams
When he announced his decision to provide Abrams tanks to Ukraine, President Joe Biden made a point to say Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had recommended the move. But Austin, along with other military leaders, had for weeks argued it didn’t make sense for the U.S. to send the tanks to Ukraine, and he made his recommendation about how to provide them only after it was clear Biden wanted to send them, about 48 hours before his announcement, three U.S. officials said.
Biden wasn’t initially sold on sending the tanks, despite pressure to do so to give cover to Germany to send Ukraine some Leopard 2 tanks, the officials said. He warmed to the idea after Secretary of State Antony Blinken presented him with potential solutions to an issue that was very publicly exposing divisions within the U.S.-European alliance, the officials said.
By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, the Lester Crown professor in management practice and a senior associate dean at the Yale School of Management, and Steven Tian, the director of research at the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute.
JANUARY 19, 2023, 10:38 AM FP
For much of the past year, and since his invasion of Ukraine last February, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been riding high on his supposed energy omnipotence, holding the global economy hostage to his whims. Since last summer, Putin has choked off natural gas supplies to Europe, hoping that Europeans, shivering and without heat during the winter, would turn on their leaders and make it politically infeasible to continue support for Ukraine.
Tiếp tục đọc “The World Economy No Longer Needs Russia”03/12/2022 11:07 GMT+7
TTO – Chiến sự Nga – Ukraine đã chứng minh vai trò quan trọng của vũ khí máy bay không người lái trên chiến trường hiện đại.
Từ chức năng trinh sát ban đầu, loại máy bay này đã biến thành sát thủ tấn công từ trên không và có thể định hình cuộc chiến trong tương lai.
Tại triển lãm hàng không ở Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ vào đầu tháng 9-2022, lần đầu tiên nước chủ nhà đã giới thiệu thế hệ máy bay không người lái (UAV) siêu thanh Bayraktar Kizilelma. UAV mới có tính năng tàng hình, bay gần 980km/h với tốc độ tối đa Mach 1.
Chuyến bay đầu tiên dự kiến được thực hiện vào đầu năm 2023. Đến cuối tháng 9, báo chí Pháp đưa tin Tổng cục Vũ khí Pháp đang thử nghiệm thế hệ UAV mới AVATAR trang bị súng trường tấn công.
Chất nổ Torpex phát nổ sớm đã phá hủy máy bay BQ-8 giết chết Kennedy và Willy ngay lập tức.
DONALD L. MILLER
Tiếp tục đọc “UAV – Bóng ma sát thủ từ trên không (5 kỳ)”
December 7, 20225:18 PM GMT+7
By Francesco Guarascio and Khanh Vu
HANOI, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Vietnam is eyeing a major defence shift as it seeks to reduce its reliance on Russian arms and launch a push to export locally made weapons, officials and analysts said, with possible buyers in Africa, Asia – and potentially even Moscow.
The Southeast Asian nation is one of the world’s 20 biggest buyers of weapons amid on-and-off tensions with China, with an annual budget for arms imports estimated at about $1 billion and set to grow, according to GlobalData, a provider of military procurement intelligence.
Most of that money has historically gone to Russia, which was for decades Vietnam’s main supplier of weapons and defence systems. That made Vietnam one of the top buyers of Russian arms, according to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which tracks global military expenditures.
Tiếp tục đọc “Analysis: Vietnam shifts gears on arms trade as it loosens ties with Russia”
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