The day the NATO summit in Vilnius opened - July 11 - was marked in Cuba by the arrival of the Russian Navy warship Perekop of the Baltic Fleet. Canada has promised more than $1.5B in military aid to Ukraine.Ukraine to rely on security guarantees from individual G7 allies until it joins NATO.Nuclear threat from Ukraine war prompts Ottawa to update plans for catastrophe.The new threat may say more about Russia's weakness than its strength, as the strategic balance in the waters around European Russia shifts against it. That's something Russian President Vladimir Putin has been anxious to avoid, opting instead to present his war on Ukraine as a "special military operation." The threat to sink commercial shipping marks an escalation that can only be carried out under a state of declared war, said Tanya Grodzinski, a naval historian at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ont. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked Turkey to join him in a new arrangement to protect grain ships without Russia's involvement. This week, Russia unilaterally ended talks on renewing the Black Sea Grain Initiative that has allowed food to flow to other countries from Ukraine, despite the war. This obvious threat to sink commercial shipping appears to be an attempt to prevent ships from taking on Ukrainian grain. Since midnight Wednesday, Moscow time, Russia has been warning the world that any ship approaching a Ukrainian port "will be regarded as potential carriers of military cargo."
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Call of Duty games have always struggled with low tickrate servers that let you get shot after you've already made it behind cover, but this is the worst it has felt in years. Thanks, I hate it!īallistics are also a major step back in Cold War. Across four different matches, I’ve shot down choppers just to watch another fly into the airspace ten seconds later, and another after that. If that sounds like a recipe for more chaos than ever, you’d be correct. Going on a streak will help earn them faster, but the new system allows even a simpleton like me to carpet bomb the map with napalm at least once per match. Except now, progress toward streaks isn’t reset upon death (making “streak” a total misnomer). Cold War switches back to the Treyarch-style of scorestreaks that account for all points earned, not just kills. This is a roundabout way of saying that killstreaks are still around and still unfortunately prominent. The need for Ghost or Cold Blooded wastes a slot I’d rather use on a fun perk that lets me shoot while sprinting. All of the stealth-based perks like Ghost that I usually use to avoid UAVs are relegated to the third slot. Perks in the first two slots are minor bonuses to grenade resistances and cooldowns. I think this is partly why perks are less impactful this time around. I enjoy the absurdity of Gunfighter, which lets you stick eight attachments to a gun instead of the usual five, though I suspect most players will stick to the Perk Greed wildcard to score an extra three perks for free. Wildcards, class modifiers seen in past Black Ops games, let you bend the rules in some fun ways. Treyarch’s latest take on Create-a-Class does come with a few improvements. |
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