ofthe between russia and ukraine. ? part of the is to between russia and ukraine. ? part of the is to create between russia and ukraine. ? part of the is to create chaos. part of this fits limit that the idea that whether it is civilian infrastructure, targeting civilians to create political pressure or whether it is military infrastructure and resist sticks etc to undermine the ukrainian military. they are fairly happy to target deep areas in the front line and it keeps the pressure on ukraine. i think they are keen to bring the war closer to ukrainian civilians rather than just the donbas closer to ukrainian civilians rather thanjust the donbas now closer to ukrainian civilians rather than just the donbas now that they have the redrawn. i think that is important. i think the timing as well, if you remember back on the 27th ofjune, we had the attack on this shopping centre, just as the g7 leaders are meeting. this attack happened just as 45 nations meeting in the hague to sign up
because this week the white house was asked repeatedly if there is a chemicals attack, will you will you send troops into ukraine and they said our position has not changed and also we re not drawing any red lines. they want to be careful about escalating this with russia. and yet, again, the security infrastructure of europe is being rewritten, redrawn, before our eyes and we are having conversations that no one s had to have in this town for 20 plus years. in the sense that, listening to vice president harris today, if you think about the afghanistan war, deployments to germany or deployments on training journeys, lithuania, poland, those were viewed as places you go to do very important work but you re in a safe place and beautiful european cities. now listen to the president of the united states talking to troops, saying your mission may have changed. in this moment of russian aggression, and putin s war, we take seriously our commitment to
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