Japan, Sweden, Canada or South Korea come to mind. There will be a demilitarized zone around any and all of the Ukraine nuclear power plants while disinterested parties secure them, if possible, and eventually take them offline as this is a danger zone for any form of power generation, except, green energy. Quite frankly, until the world has settled ridiculous ideology that leads to war, these power plants must come offline.
August 23, 2022
Richard Pérez-Peña and
As United Nations officials pleaded for inspection and demilitarization of the battle-scarred nuclear power plant caught in Russia’s war on Ukraine, countries traded harsh words at the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday but moved no closer to resolving the intensifying crisis, which has hung over the war for months.
At the Security Council meeting, the second in two weeks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the United States and its allies accused Russia, which controls the plant, of peddling lies about the situation there and blaming others for its own actions, while Russia leveled similar charges at them. The Council’s member nations emerged from the 80-minute meeting with no evident movement toward inspection or improved security.
Russian forces have held the sprawling Zaporizhzhia complex and Enerhodar, the town encompassing it, since early March, and the remaining residents live under a harrowing occupation, exhausted and fearful as many of them work to keep the plant operating safely....
As United Nations officials pleaded for inspection and demilitarization of the battle-scarred nuclear power plant caught in Russia’s war on Ukraine, countries traded harsh words at the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday but moved no closer to resolving the intensifying crisis, which has hung over the war for months.
At the Security Council meeting, the second in two weeks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the United States and its allies accused Russia, which controls the plant, of peddling lies about the situation there and blaming others for its own actions, while Russia leveled similar charges at them. The Council’s member nations emerged from the 80-minute meeting with no evident movement toward inspection or improved security.
Russian forces have held the sprawling Zaporizhzhia complex and Enerhodar, the town encompassing it, since early March, and the remaining residents live under a harrowing occupation, exhausted and fearful as many of them work to keep the plant operating safely....
Also to take note, there are two NATO allies that have not done a thing to assist Ukraine humanitarian aid or militarily aid. Those two countries are Austria and Hungry. Hungry is no surprise, given the hatred of freedom and democracy by it's dictator, but, Austria?
It is more a question, should Austria stay neutral?
By Caroline de Gruyter
“Austria always wants to be a bridge between East and West,” (click here) former Austrian Vice Chancellor Erhard Busek said one afternoon in 2017 during a long conversation over tea in his office in Vienna. “The problem is: A bridge has no identity. If East and West quarrel, and nobody wants that bridge anymore, what should Austria do? What is Austria then?”
Few Austrians had such a keen eye on what was happening in their militarily neutral Central European country as Busek did. He was well read, had a dry sense of humor, and above all possessed a remarkable talent for connecting national events with broader international developments. Pinning one’s identity on a bridge, he argued, illustrated well how his traumatized country had elevated the avoidance of painful questions to perfection. One day, he predicted, Austria would pay for this mistake dearly.
Busek died in March, just weeks after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. But had he still been alive, he surely would have been one of the signatories of an open letter that 50 prominent Austrians published in May. The letter is a strong appeal to Austria’s political leadership and citizens to finally stop trying to be a bridge between East and West and to end the country’s dependence on Russia in terms of energy and other sectors. The letter calls for a “serious, nationwide discussion about the future of Austria’s security and defence policy” and finally raises the central question in a country that has turned neutrality into a secular religion since the 1950s: Can Austria still be neutral in today’s world?...
“Austria always wants to be a bridge between East and West,” (click here) former Austrian Vice Chancellor Erhard Busek said one afternoon in 2017 during a long conversation over tea in his office in Vienna. “The problem is: A bridge has no identity. If East and West quarrel, and nobody wants that bridge anymore, what should Austria do? What is Austria then?”
Few Austrians had such a keen eye on what was happening in their militarily neutral Central European country as Busek did. He was well read, had a dry sense of humor, and above all possessed a remarkable talent for connecting national events with broader international developments. Pinning one’s identity on a bridge, he argued, illustrated well how his traumatized country had elevated the avoidance of painful questions to perfection. One day, he predicted, Austria would pay for this mistake dearly.
Busek died in March, just weeks after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. But had he still been alive, he surely would have been one of the signatories of an open letter that 50 prominent Austrians published in May. The letter is a strong appeal to Austria’s political leadership and citizens to finally stop trying to be a bridge between East and West and to end the country’s dependence on Russia in terms of energy and other sectors. The letter calls for a “serious, nationwide discussion about the future of Austria’s security and defence policy” and finally raises the central question in a country that has turned neutrality into a secular religion since the 1950s: Can Austria still be neutral in today’s world?...
