By the way, if you’ll ever be in such a situation, unless you’re literally jumping out of the way of falling debree, don’t. It may sound counter-intuitive but being in the water when a blast wave hits is way worse than when it happens on the ground as the displaced mass of water doesn’t really have anywhere to go rather then through you, fecking up your intestines, while on the ground the shockwave loses its power much quicker.
First part is of course correct, I didn't say otherwise. I agree with the second part, but people are worried about standing up to him because of those nukes, I'm arguing that's not helpful. Without the nukes, there are soldiers from other countries in Ukraine to assist, surely.
It would help slow down debris if you managed to dive in deep enough, but you’d have to be quick. The water itself wouldn’t slow a shockwave down but the phase change between air/land and water would diffuse it, so the bit about your lungs exploding would mainly apply to an explosion that took place in the body of water where you were already submerged. The chances of seeing an impending explosion and jumping into water fast enough for the shockwave to destroy your organs are quite low.
Can the EU force them to open their borders to an unfriendly non-EU country?
Technically no, but still the external borders are EU borders and the sovereignty over these borders is de facto a collective one. Frontex runs on a €500 Million budget in order to help the member states manage their external borders.
They are both (Schengen borders code).
That's probably true. I didn't dispute it, I'm saying what they believe isn't necessarily what other countries believe to be the correct interpretation of these sanctions.
But does that apply to an EU / non-EU border?
Well, according to Josep Borrell, the EU high rep for foreign affairs, Lithuania is simply applying the EU sanctions to their border with Russia.
My personal response to that two-faced degenerate and living shame to her uniform:More takes about sovereignty:
It’s not specific interpretation, it’s current version of sanctions and this decision was made in consultation with European Commission. What Germany now pushes is the change to the current legal wording of these sanctions. Either way the optics are very bad for the EU if they decide to go back on this and will only embolden Putin to make threats in the future. Also, there’s going to be no blockade of any kind as Russia can ship/fly in the goods it would be more expensive sure, but that’s the whole point to make the war very expensive for Russia?
Great Patriotic War fighting against fascism, the golden age of Soviet (aka Russian) power, undoing the fall of the USSR leading to the existence of an independent Ukraine, etc.
