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[disarmamentawarenessday]

Holy See Statement During The General Exchange Of Views At The United Nations Disarmament Commission.

First, allow me to congratulate you on your election as Chair of this commission and assure you of my delegation’s support. 

In one week’s time, we will mark the 60th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope John XXIII’s encyclical letter, Pacem in Terris, written in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

Earlier this year, Pope Francis emphasized the letter’s continued relevance in a world that sadly feels fear and anguish due to the renewed prominence of the nuclear threat in the context of the war in Ukraine.[1] Pope Francis went on further to reaffirm the immorality of possessing nuclear weapons, given that their employment, even by accident, could lead to “appalling slaughter and destruction.”[2] Such a risk, as well as the growing consciousness of the catastrophic humanitarian and environmental consequences of nuclear weapons, necessitates a reconception of security that moves away from a balance of arms toward integral disarmament. In this regard, the Holy See calls on all States to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). 

Tragically, the lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis are being forgotten and numerous arms control treaties have been discarded, reflecting a paucity of trust internationally and accelerating a worrying trend toward rearmament. 

This growing mistrust even reaches beyond Earth’s atmosphere into the celestial domain. In this regard, the Holy See welcomes the General Assembly’s recent adoption of resolution 77/41, which “calls upon States to commit not to conduct destructive direct-ascent anti-satellite missile tests.” Indeed, my delegation hopes that this commission can foster dialogue to build consensus on this issue, while also promoting transparency and confidence-building measures (TCBMs) in outer space. Such measures would not preclude, but rather lay the groundwork for an eventual legally binding agreement prohibiting the weaponization of outer space and weapons that threaten space objects. An agreement along these lines would prevent an arms race in outer space and ensure that all outer space activity fosters cooperation, rather than mistrust, and serves the common good.

Mr. Chair, 

Let us not forget that “existing disarmament treaties are more than just legal obligations. They are also moral commitments based on trust among States and among their representatives, rooted in the trust that citizens place in their governments, with ethical consequences for current and future generations of humanity.” Therefore, adherence to, and respect for, international disarmament agreements and international law is not a form of weakness but rather, it is a source of strength and responsibility since it increases trust and stability.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

By H. E. Archbishop Gabriele CacciaApostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations.

Statement of the Holy See at the General Exchange of Views at the United Nations Disarmament Commission during the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

[indianflash123]

New START Treaty; What Russia's Suspension Means?

With Russia-Ukraine war moving into second year, and entire Europe as well as the United States giving its full support to Ukraine, Russia declared that it was suspending all its participation in the New START treaty — the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States. PUTIN Addressing the nation on February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Russia was suspending…

[indianflashnews]

New START Treaty; What Russia's Suspension Means?

With Russia-Ukraine war moving into second year, and entire Europe as well as the United States giving its full support to Ukraine, Russia declared that it was suspending all its participation in the New START treaty — the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States. PUTIN Addressing the nation on February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Russia was suspending…

[horribleadorable]

do u guys think joe biden likes ace of spades

[chimeowrical]

Been rereading Ranger’s Apprentice this summer, so here’s Halt and his baby boys

[the-thursday]

If y’all remember flat Will Treaty, i finally decided to give him the third dimension.

Also i forgot oakleaf but lets say sometimes rangers keep it hidden

(flat and flatter Treaty under the readmore)

[tremendously-crazy]

Me when i see a bee/rose: is this a sherlock holmes reference?

[findingcrow]

It’s so funny to me because I’ve only been on tumblr like a month and I got it for the rangers apprentice content (because god knows that the fandom is nonexistent elsewhere) and I can recognize users and profile pictures. Like I don’t know these people personally but I notice every time they like a post because there’s only so many of us and only so much content FOR consuming. I go on Pinterest and search the rangers apprentice and go “Hey, I’ve seen that person around!!” I have never spoken a word to these people in my life yet I know who they are and that they, too, are obsessed with a stupid fantasy series for middle schoolers

[jamisonwritestf2trash]

Medic and Archimedes:

[gunkbaby]

bimbo summit (woke)

[laughing-gods-corpse]

thiinkiing about alterhuman terms that are techniically umbrella terms of other terms but aren''t iinherently used by those who use the terms under theiir umbrella

ex 1:: theriian iis under the otherkiin umbrella but not all theriians use the label otherkiin

ex 2:: transcharacter and fiictiive are under the fiictiionkiin umbrella but not all transcharacters or fiictiives use the label fiictiionkiin

[disarmamentawarenessday]

Statement by the Holy See UN at the United Nations Disarmament Commission During the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Allow me to start by congratulating you on your election as chair of this Working Group and assure you of the Holy See’s support.  In his annual message for the World Day of Peace, Pope Francis lamented that “The war in Ukraine is reaping innocent victims and spreading insecurity, not only among those directly affected, but in a widespread and indiscriminate way for everyone, also for those who, even thousands of kilometres away, suffer its collateral effects.” In this way, the conflict offers a macabre preview of the devastating consequences that a nuclear war would have for all humankind.  In the face of such a threat, Pope Francis stresses: “We can no longer think exclusively of carving out space for our personal or national interests; instead, we must think in terms of the common good, recognizing that we belong to a greater community, and opening our minds and hearts to universal human fraternity.” Thankfully, this Commission offers us an important opportunity to address the issue of nuclear weapons in the spirit of such fraternity. Arriving at consensus in this forum has proven difficult in the past; however, the broad inclusion of all States within the Commission makes it unique within the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime. While we may disagree on the relative merits of various components of the regime, the present nuclear danger obligates us to commit to dialogue regarding principles for achieving of a world free of nuclear weapons. In this regard, any consensus outcome from this Working Group would be a welcome development, even if it may lack the ambition preferred by most States.  Mr. Chair,  In this regard, the Holy See expresses its deep regret that the States parties to the New START Treaty have decided to forego the semiannual data exchange. At a time of heightened tensions, transparency with regard to nuclear arsenals is more vital than ever. In this regard, my delegation calls on States possessing the greatest number of nuclear weapons, to engage in a good faith dialogue on the issue before the last vestige of nuclear arms control is lost to the detriment of global security. 

Thank you, Mr. Chair. 

[short-wooloo]

There's a lot of people pointing at how the Israel-Palestine ceasefire has ended and fighting has resumed as some sort of "gotcha"

It took 6 weeks to broker this ceasefire (and hamas didn't even really keep to it, surprise surprise, they still kept firing rockets at Israel), 5 days is not much time to broker an extension and/or longer ceasefire

This is the real world people, a ceasefire doesn't just happen by declaring/calling for it, they take time and negotiations and dealings and compromises

And as long as hamas keeps Israeli citizens (and non Israeli citizens) hostage while firing rockets at them, Israel has no reason to keep a ceasefire with hamas

[name-s-are-not-important]

Will: No! I can’t relax, I’m getting married! It’s stressfull, okay?

Halt, not thinking twice: Lmfao, I remember that one time when I married Crowley. I was way more scared that he would be still angry about the treason thing so-

Will:

Halt:

Halt, realizing: I mean I have no idea what you’re going through, I’m sorry but-

Will: THAT ONE TIME WHEN YOU DID WHAT

[burnin0akleaves]

Someone's always watching from the shadows

[the80hbee]

If a Ranger dies while their still-in-training apprentice survives, then that apprentice carries their Oakleaf until graduation around their wrist. When they graduate, they have a choice between getting their own Oakleaf or inheriting their Mentors.

No apprentice has ever chosen a new Oakleaf for themselves.

@brilliantinsultsgalore ‘s hc ^ (from a post of rangerthursday’s) has spawned this devastating idea in my head.

imagine an au where halt dies for will somewhere in the whole skandia plotline. and will does this. gilan taking will aside on the docks as crowley stood, frozen, unable to comprehend that halt was dead and gone, and tying the leather cord with shaking hands around will’s thin wrist. tears sliding down both their faces.

gilan probably took will on as his apprentice. their mentor-apprentice relationship was a little unique for its near-equal, older brother-younger brother dynamic — and part of that was very intentionally done by gilan because he wanted will to be sure that he wouldn’t ever try to take the place of halt in will’s life, but also partially because gilan was unsure of himself and felt he couldn’t teach will as well as halt would have.

crowley was hesitant at first to let gilan take will on since gilan was pretty inexperienced and rather young for an apprentice. but gilan was the one who welcomed will back from skandia and cared for him 24/7 through that initial week back filled with a constant onslaught of night terrors and flashbacks and panic attacks. not that they stopped then, but the healer they were working with had suggested they try going back to a gentler training schedule to put some normalcy and structure into will’s life. and when will had said that he really, really didn’t want to be apprenticed to anyone besides gilan, gilan had been determined to move heaven and earth to make it happen. so crowley resigned himself to the fact that halt passed on his stubborn, fierce protectiveness to gilan (and was secretly warmed to see the strength of love and family created between the two apprentices of his, uh, his lifelong best friend), and let gilan take will on, so long as gilan regularly kept in touch with crowley and another nearby senior ranger (in a neighboring fief), in case gilan ever had any questions or wanted advice.

and after the first months of gilan being will’s mentor went amazingly well (within the context of will continuing to work through the trauma of skandia — halt’s death as well as all the canon things)), crowley moved the two of them back to redmont. because honestly, they both know the fief very well from their time with halt, and the duo were proving very capable. and not that crowley said it in his reasoning, but redmont was closer to araluen than meric fief, and this way crowley could visit them much easier.

at some point, will takes to rubbing at halt’s oakleaf on his wrist as a sort of comfort/nervous fidget, and some of the scuffing on its surface left by halt’s everyday wear starts to fade, polished away by time and will’s rough fingertips. will panics when he first realizes this because he feels like he’s erasing the evidence of halt from it, and gilan finds him on the edge of a panic attack one day, going back and forth between saying it’s a stupid worry then sobbing that he had failed halt — which was really about will’s survivor’s guilt, his deep fear that he hadn’t done enough and it was his fault, that he should have saved halt or halt shouldn’t have had to save him in the first place. gilan knows that deeper issue isn’t something he can solve right then, but he could sit with him and help will at least see that no matter how the oakleaf changed, it was and always would be halt’s oakleaf — and one day, also will’s, because there was never any doubt about that. and gilan and also is like. well maybe rub the back and edges more since most of the scratches and dings and stuff are on the front right? and will is like. oh. right. yes. (and then gilan jokingly affects a stern look, reminding will of what they’d just said about how, whatever he does, will is not erasing halt from the oakleaf either way — gilan’s way of gently and humorously making sure will got the point of their talk, which he did).

and later, halt’s oakleaf turns into a sort of anchor point of halt’s memory for will and he starts staring at it as he has the whole ‘hearing the voice of someone you know very well in your head randomly popping in to give you advice or respond to something’, and then also when he thinks ‘what would halt do?’. (though he often stares more at his wrist and sleeve since he keeps the oakleaf tucked away a fair amount of the time so it isn’t dangling about and getting in the way of everything he did). then will starts more directly engaging with his mental!halt and uses the oakleaf as a conduit for that, eventually sometimes even talking out loud to the pendant and lowkey processing a lot of his grief by talking to halt via the oakleaf.

gilan finds will doing this one day and will is rather horrified and embarrassed until gilan pulls back his sleeve and shows will a bronze oakleaf around his wrist — gilan’s old apprentice necklace. gilan quietly explains how he wears it as a tribute to his mentor and father-figure, as a way of saying halt will always be gilan’s mentor and gilan always his apprentice, to hold close his memories of him time spent with halt (much of it happening when it was that necklace around his neck), and as a way of taking halt with him wherever he goes. and gilan says the oakleaf has come to represent halt for him too and that, sometimes, he also talks to halt through it, holding the pendant in both his hands and closing his eyes. gilan then reaches and takes will’s hand to lead him back to the cabin. their clasped hands are the ones each chose to wear the oakleaf on (will’s right and gilan’s left), and the bronze and silver metal gently bump against each other with a light ting! as they walk back together.

will almost doesn’t make it through his own graduation. gilan and crowley decided to keep to just the three of them, guessing that will wouldn’t want to have to deal with a big party. it would be hard enough already with halt’s painfully obvious absence at what was one of the most important events in will’s life, one where halt should have been present more than anyone else. will is eternally grateful to them for it. he decides to celebrate with his friends with a night out a few days later, and it doesn’t hurt as badly then.

after his graduation, with the familiar weight of halt’s silver oakleaf now pressed over his heart, will’s wrist felt oddly bare and untethered, so at gilan’s suggestion, he also begins wearing his old apprentice oakleaf on his wrist.

crowley smiled when he saw this. all those years ago, pritchard had fashioned a rough sort of bronze oakleaf for halt at the one year mark of halt’s unofficial apprenticeship. one night after duncan et. al. had chased morgarath back to the mountains of rain and night post-hackham heath, crowley and halt were alone back at castle araluen and with a night to themselves. halt quietly told crowley the story behind that oakleaf and then gave it to crowley, telling him he wanted crowley to have it. and crowley gives halt his apprentice oakleaf in return. crowley saw gilan with his apprentice oakleaf tied around his wrist when gilan and will had stopped by castle araluen on the way to redmont from meric, and when they left, he took halt’s apprentice oakleaf from where he had kept it in a little box and tied it gently around his own wrist.

halt’s death changed them all, forever. crowley would never again love like he had loved halt with his entire being and then more. will would never feel the love of a father, see someone like his father as he had in halt. gilan would never again trust so wholly, in unfettered totality, like he had trusted halt.

but it would be okay.

on the first anniversary of halt’s death, crowley had ridden quietly to halt’s old cabin and spent the night with gilan and will. at first, they just sat together in silence, alone together around the crackling fire. then, crowley pulled back his sleeve, showed will and gilan the rough little oakleaf dangling there, and told them its story. they spent that night crying and laughing with each other in turn, telling stories about halt, remembering the mentor and father and love of a lif-uh, best friend, that he had been to them. and so, they found they had created their own little family in one other. they were gathered at the start by the almost magnetic quality of halt’s presence that drew them all in. they were bound together by their love for halt and their grief at his death. and now, they saw their love for each other was beginning to grow and fill in the cracks. in time, it would become enough to glue them back together into something new. not quite whole. not quite broken. but okay. loved.

family.