Ukraine: Russia threatens World War III and China issues a serious warning

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who three or four days ago assured that his country would fight “with conventional weapons”, had just burned the prairie. Threats, he said “There is a real danger of the Third World War”.

That situation becomes dangerous given it an immediate and dry statement from the Chinese government, older brother in alliance with the Russians: “China doesn’t want World War III.” And he added that he wanted an agreement between the parties.

Russia cannot take the most serious initiative without consulting Beijing, which is the other superpower in the US, even if the Russians have a heavy atomic arsenal. If China does not want to it’s really very difficult that Vladimir Putin could drag the Chinese to the brink of atomic hell.

The global crisis is dangerously rising, no doubt. The United States has moved down a difficult line, with militant support for providing new weapons to Ukrainians resisting Russia’s offensive to occupy the east and south of the country it attacked on February 24th.

It is inevitable that tension will increase by arming the Ukrainians to the teeth by the flow of arms that’s defensive and doing weighsto strengthen the resistance of veteran Ukrainian troops in the Donbas region, the central scene of the battle extending south.

Main conference in Germany

representative of some 40 countries gathered this Tuesday at the U.S. base in Ramstein, Germany, at the invitation of the State Department. The central theme ands strengthen the defense of Ukraine. Defense Minister Lloyd Austin said the attackers “could defeat Russia if they were given the right approach.”

The meeting is scheduled “to develop additional capabilities for Ukrainian forces,” Austin said. Another minister in President Biden’s government, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, pointed out that the US wants to secure Ukraine “the kind of artillery and ammunition that is effective at this stage of the battle.”

The international collection convened the day after the meeting of the head of the Pentagon and head of US diplomacy with President Zelensky in kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.

Blinken summarized the results as follows: “We see that Russia has not achieved the goals it seeks. Now the strategy consists of enormous pressure on Russia and enormous support for Ukraine. ”More weapons, way heavier than a few weeks ago were not considered and there was talk about exclusively defensive means of warfare. .

To Ramstein, the Americans, the backbone of support for Ukrainian military defense, show a long list of weapons that would design the future of a war that Washington thought would be long.

Difficulties are expected. For example in the same Germany that hosts the international conference beyond NATO’s allies, the Western military alliance.

German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz is against long sleeves with heavy military supplies. Rheinmetall, which produces the hundred Marder tanks ordered by kyiv, questioned the Berlin government on Monday an official decision about export permits.

Germany is overwhelmed by its dependence on energy of Russia’s oil and gas supplies. If Putin tightened the plugs by closing the taps of gas pipelines, the Germans were going directly into an economic recession.

nuclear arsenalsang

Russia’s threats of nuclear war quickly refreshed information about Russian atomic arsenals and North Americans.

Russia holds the primacy in the world with 6,370 nuclear weapons between missiles and bombs. In 2019 it spent 8.5 billion dollars, according to Ican, which is the Geneva -based institution that promotes the campaign against atomic weapons and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.

For Fish, The US has 5,800 nuclear weapons, that’s 3,750 according to the NSA, which is the U.S. nuclear security administration body.

It is impossible to determine the precise number of Russian and American weapons and qualify which is the oldest and which is modern. Although that is estimated The US spends four times more than Russiabecause he dedicates large amount for maintenance insurance of atomic weapons.

In addition to the USA has nuclear weapons deployed in five countries Europeans. Officially there are a hundred but there are Italian sources who maintain that at Aviano and Ghedi bases, along with some secret bases, only in Italy they can accumulate up to 70 atomic devices.

China acknowledges spending 10.4 billion dollars in the field of nuclear weapons, a seemingly modest and almost unbelievable figure. Beijing, driven by its own growth as a superpower, cannot avoid a significant increase in its military atomic commitment.

That’s about it China has a relatively modest nuclear arsenal. of 380 missiles and bombs, with one hundred intercontinental ground -based missiles. China’s biggest concern is 1371 intercontinental missiles attributed to the North Americans, which constitute a direct threat due to its long range.

Spy satellites have shown, for example, that in the Yumen area, north of Beijing, the construction of 119 intercontinental ballistic missile launch silos has been completed.

Other atomic countries are rapidly increasing their military spending in the sector. France, with more than 300 missiles and bombs, reached 4.8 billion dollars last year. Great Britain is bordering on 9 billion. India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea show smaller increases.

Rome, correspondent

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