5/15/2023 0 Comments Strategic war questions![]() Your main task at this stage would be to motivate students from your institution (or wider in the country) to complete the online questionnaire by 30 April 2022 at the latest (here is only a preview link: ). If you are interested in participating (as a contact person and a potential co-author of a joint paper, do let me know to give you further guidelines – see also research guidelines on the webpage: ). The agrarians of Luhansk and certain territories of the Stanichno-Lugansk region have exceeded the plan for sowing corn for grain by 15%, the agricultural producers of the Perevalsky region have almost completed the sowing of corn for grain. More than 70% of the planned target for sowing corn for grain was fulfilled by the farmers of the Melovsky and Slavyanoserbsky districts. Sowing of corn for grain and green fodder continues at an active pace. Agrarians of the Antratsytovsky district exceeded the planned sowing target for millet by 17%. For the group of late grain crops, more than 90% of the planned target for sowing buckwheat in the Antratsitovsky and Lutuginsky districts was fulfilled. The sowing of early grain crops in the Krasnodon, Sverdlovsk and Starobelsk regions has almost been completed. The planned sowing target for early spring grain crops was overfulfilled by the farmers of the Slavyanoserbsky, Lutuginsky, Antratsitovsky and Novopskovsky regions, and was completely fulfilled by the commodity producers of the Perevalsky region. Spring field work in the Republic is nearing completion. I wonder what is to learn from these events and if we have the same capacity to build scenarios and observe the transformation of our habitat (I live in Romania) under the pressure of war, and of course to understand the interplay of fragility and resilience in the case of localities in Ukraine. We recently witnessed a vivid debate and somehow inconclusive debate, accompanied by a plethora of dramatic scenarios about the transformation of space - from the domestic space to cities and territories -, during the first wave of the Covid pandemic, but there is not much theoretical debate now, though since Russia attacked Ukraine millions fled, cities were destroyed, Europe prepares for a cold winter without gas, etc. Like, for example, the anti-atomic shelters that are present, and still compulsory for many buildings across the planet, or the impulse to build or adapt the houses in order to become autonomous in terms of energy. How can we define, from a built environment perspective, mainly in architectural and urbanistic terms, the spaces of war? I use space s because I am looking not only at the core of the destruction, at the fight theater, but also at the transformation of space/built environment at the largest scale possible. ![]() Thus, whether the war increases or decreases is dependent on the three actors mentioned above. Both Russia and Ukraine have incurred heavy losses and bitter lessons have been learned, yet the war rages on. The third factor is America and Western allies pouring sophisticated weapons into Ukraine to help it defend itself against the aggressor and the facade of advancing its geostrategic interest. The second lens is the will to fight and resilience on the part of the Ukrainians who are not ready to surrender their sovereignty and territorial integrity. First, Russia's expansionist ambition and its inability to strategically and resourcefully use diplomacy to create pro-Russian regimes in neighboring countries long before the war rather than unleashing its might and flexing muscles on Ukraine are at the heart of this war. The war in Ukraine, its continuity, and otherwise should be viewed from several lenses. The post-WW2 international system is rigged in favor of the few powerful nations who violate international law with impunity in pursuit of their interest. ![]() In addition, this war brought material benefits to China, in terms of obtaining energy resources from Russia At cheap prices, as well as the existence of opportunities to compensate Chinese companies for Western companies that left Russian lands because of the war and the sanctions imposed on Moscow. I think that China is the biggest winner in this Russian-Ukrainian war, because the war weakens its western competitors and adversaries, led by the United States, Europe and NATO, at the same time weakens Russia and reduces its capabilities, despite China's strategic relations with Russia, but it is in Beijing's interest that Russia will be less powerful, to be the dominant actor in the expected arrangements to change the structure of the international system towards multipolarity, Also, the Russian-Ukrainian war keeps the West busy in the European arena, and this reduces the extent of its focus on strategic developments in the Asian field, which is the immediate regional periphery of China.
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