I totally know how NATO works (am former soldier from a NATO country), I know Mario is a defensive treaty and even if you’re a member it doesn’t mean other member nations have to cooperate with you outside of NATO related activities. So yes no NATO members need to join, and no NATO member has to support the US (even if just by allowing to use the air space) outside of NATO missions it exercises.
If Putin knows NATO is a paper tiger, why is he complaining about countries joining it? Why does he complain about NATO member countries on Russia’s borders? Surely a paper tiger isn’t detrimental to his interests? Why did they claim Russia is fighting NATO in Ukraine?
Total disconnect from reality
He’s just preparing for an out, in a week or two he can tell on TV that Iran agreed to all demands and as such, the US gets out. Won’t work most likely, but maybe he’ll try.
That or he seriously believes this has happened because someone told him. Who knows! Or he might just contradict himself.
Debian systems have optionally collected this kind of data way before systemd existed via adduser.
As I said, he’s just flinging shit, it is dumb. But you have the same ideology on both sides, they’re very different cuts from the same cloth, so I don’t mind. There’s no real effect on common affairs, the connection between Japan declining to help and this isn’t there, no country is committing to any action in the strait.
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The joke was almost more controversial than the fact that Japan who committed the possibly most heinous crimes against humanity in WWII never apologized or admitted to any wrongdoing.
yup he was flinging dumb shit but it hit the right target. Let the conservative nationalists fight each other. I can’t be outraged by this one
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Could the US lose in Vietnam? Of course not, they just got bored and left
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First off there is support by European countries and the US for Ukraine, though I agree that the decision for giving up their nukes should have come with harder guarantees; second Ukraine wasn’t as connected to the EU or the US as Iran was to Russia.
Russia is in no way legally obliged to help, but we’ve already seen what happens if they are (with Armenia not officially withdrawn, but having stopped paying membership fees and not participating in the CSTO). Russia is projecting weakness and offers no incentive to align with them for other countries, their words in this matter are not only hollow and hypocritical, but also embarrassing because they presented themselves as a military power, yet they only talk once an actual military power attacks an any.
The fact that Zelensky is still alive after four years while Chamenei was killed in the first night of the war (both a result of intelligence) is a very hard reality check, regardless of what one thinks is right or legal, which my post isn’t supposed to claim anything about.
Translation: Russia got embarrassed again as the world’s biggest Mafia state-run gas station that can’t protect its “allies” for shit
All these empty words from a terrorist state that’s practically incapable of more than bombing civilians. Absolutely pathetic.
Always with the “we stand up to the West” and as soon as one of theirs gets attacked, zero aid or action. No substance whatsoever.
Iran already made concessions, and it’s hypocritical to demand someone won’t do something you already do
They’re probably right
I mean the article literally uses a picture of Ursula von der Leyen, there was no point in history where she radiated competence or integrity
Ukraine is running a leftover buffet of export variant jets against a domestic S-300, so the results might not be comparable when roles are reversed, which was the case in Venezuela. Surely other factors were at play as well, but the US probably has other means at their disposal for dealing with air defense. But let’s see, I’m only armchair generaling and hope none of this becomes relevant
Used against the US? When was that?
Wouldn’t rely on these too much, we’ve seen them in (in)action in Venezuela
The situation with cocaine is really fucked though. I think what could be a solution is to allow the sale and trade of coca leaves, but not the extracted substance.
Alcohol has serious issues as well and regulations are too lax. But cocaine, as opposed to cannabis and the popular psychedelics, has serious health risks regardless of your own preconditions.
Anyhow, prohibition has never worked anyways, so there’s that.
That swiping keyboard typo happens way more often to me than it doesn’t