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I don’t know what Nita was never supposed to get to Poland is supposed to mean. NATO was a defence pact to defend against any threat to its members, the idea was to prevent something like what happened in the first world war where everyone ended up fighting each other because of all of the complicated interrelations that had all been independently agreed.

The reason they ended up being butting heads with the USSR was the USSR was constantly interfering with Western affairs. Just as Russia is doing today.

NATO has a policy of never initiating an attack the only reason the military would ever enact would be if a threat was made against one of its member states.

There is zero reason for Russia to consider NATO a threat. But they clearly do so NATO has to defend itself that’s not fear-mongering that’s just being pragmatic.

My problem is your interpretation of NATO’s fairly logical response to a potential threat as seditious or part of some evil conspiracy on the part of the industrial military complex. Sure they’re benefiting from this but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re involvement isn’t partisan.

The left are divided because each individual has a different opinion of what their utopian society would look like. But no one pays any attention to them because they’re all crazy.

there are reasons why russia decided to invade.

Yeah the reason being that they believe that Ukraine had little in the way of defence and that they would be able to get away with it. Hence why military posturing is necessary, to convince the Russians they wouldn’t be able to get away with it.

If some disaster took down Poland’s electrical and communication network Russia would be in there like a shot. Don’t try and claim otherwise they have form of taking advantage.

Yeah because the Russians aren’t going to invade. They would have to amass troops along the border we’d have some time.

Because it doesn’t have that kind of access to the file system. It can pull and push files from the system but that’s it. It has to interact with the file system via an API, it’s not got direct access.

What Americans think is irrelevant. Their opinions do not matter to the Trump regime. I’m sure most Americans understand that refusing to uphold article 5 would be devastating to US international diplomacy, at least the ones that can read understand that.

Warmongering in this case being defined as discussing the possibility of another nation state attacking them.

That’s because the hard rights world philosophy is based on hate. They invariably turn on each other. Hard right political parties are always in a transient state of existence.

No one is arguing otherwise.

But your original question is why do we still need the military when we have smartphones, and of course the answer is because the existence of smartphones does not dissuade the likes of Putin, because why would it?

I can’t see China wanting to get involved in the war. Wars are expensive, and the outcome is not guaranteed.

Besides China has improving relations with Europe, what is the point in risking that?

Most of them are bot accounts run from the Philippines anyway.

Why would Europe engage in a two front war with the United States when it could instead just ignore the United States?

Why would an occupied territory hosting US nuclear weapons build their own nuclear arsenal?

Many of them already do have nuclear weapons of their own. Also the US wouldn’t have any say in whether or not they produce nuclear weapons they could announce their preference but they have no ability to enforce it.

It’s by no means clear the Europeans would succeed. Romanian and other European officials at the exercise in Cincu, about 260 kilometers (162 miles) north of Bucharest by road, voiced concerns about how long it would take for NATO allies to make it to the front.

Those two things are not synonymous.

Romanian military are concerned it would take allies time to get to the front (I.e. it would take time for NATO to mobilise in the event of an unanticipated invasion of Romania). However firstly that doesn’t mean victory wouldn’t be ultimately achieved (allied forces had a bad time of it during the first part of the second world war, but ultimately were victorious) and secondly it assumes that Russia would be able to rally its forces (what forces) and initiate a surprise invasion despite Europe heavily monitoring Russian military activity. Which all seems unlikely.

I’m also unclear about why 260 km is considered an insurmountable distance. In an emergency that distance could be covered in a couple of hours, (I’m assuming that liberation forces and not required to obey the speed limit) presumably everyone would be going the other way in any case.

Given the tendency of these systems to randomly implode (as demonstrated) I’m unconvinced they’re going to be a long-term threat.

Any company that desires to replace its employees with an AI is really just giving them an unpaid vacation. Not even a particularly long one if history is any judge.

What’s this version control stuff? I don’t need that, I have an AI.

- An actual quote from Deap-Hyena492

It’s not that we think that everyone on a .ml instance is a bad person it’s just that if you don’t watch your back you end up talking to a bunch of people who think that mass murder and war crimes and acceptable as long as their friends are the ones doing it. And they are unfortunately also on .ml and to tar everyone with the same brush.

It’s why a lot of instances are defederating which sucks for you of course because none of it is your fault.

On Reddit you will get quarantined or shadow banned quickly with anything politically charged.

Just pick your instance and you can get that here. Unfortunate number of tankies running around on here.

You can, through the magic of buying two of them.

My tuxedo cat does not have the advantage of the shed brain cell. He has to get by on zero brain cell.

He has fallen in the pond at least three times because learning that liquid water does not support his immense weight, is physiologically impossible.