Ukrainian War Developments
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But, not Israelis; ’cause, once they’ve been there a month, they’ll claim Ukraine as an ancestral “homeland”, and declare a new independent nation!
Most likelly he has to fullfil the conditions for the USA passport and money.
Full inlfexibility when the citizens in your die pointing to this direction.
Millions of refuges, economy destroyed, and industry/buildings bombed and burning, and this is the smaller problem compared to the piling up corpses.
If he care then try everything in his power to stop the war.
No, they are NOT. lolYeah, diabolical and subversive isn't it that most NATO members have such small armies when clearly the organization is hell-bent on aggressively conquering the world and Russia in particular
NATO is the opposite. NATO is the bandwagon to hop on, so that you as a relatively small/weak country DON'T have to pay your fair share of defense spending that you will need to pay alone, and get the benefit of being able to scare off much much larger and more powerful potential adversaries.
Therefore, the biggest problem of NATO is precisely that it's own purpose and "selling-point" are the things that will burden it and making it impossible to sustain. Because defense budget NOT SPENT will be spent on other important things like welfare, development, education, trade, etc. Nations in NATO actually got their overall comparative margin of competitiveness (in human development, research, standard of living, etc) over other NON-allied countries precisely because they can afford to pay much less on defense individually, and be able to use these money to further their advantage in other fields. Now that they have to pay more for defense, they will have to spend these money much much more wisely in order to offset the decrease of funding for many other fields/uses.
If NATO got tricked by Russia into spending more on defense specifically against a potential aggression that is not going to happen, that will be as stupid as the French spending billions building the Maginot Line. Then, Russia would have benefited.
So far, none of the countries who are supposedly going to increase their defense budget are actually spending that money wisely. Of course, there are no way they can spend those money meaningfully. Building a few hundred/thousand tanks and IFVs is a waste of money for NATO countries in EU, because it does NOT give them any new strategic capabilities that has the ability to strategically threaten Russia in a new way. These can ONLY make a hypothetical Russian Invasion of European members of NATO more costly and more difficult. If Russia does NOT plan on invading but have other plans to make strategic gains, the money spent on these would have no other way of countering those, nor have these any ability to threaten Russia.
If European members of NATO want to increase spending to offset "Russian Aggression" and spend those money wisely, they will need to form a "European Center" and allocate all its European member's increased spending together in one pool. And using these together on projects that will gain new strategic capabilities. For example: hypersonic missiles, stealth bombers, heavy 5-gen/6-gen multirole fighters, SSNs, heavy strategic airlifts, etc. We all know this is impossible.
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Only bring-up the Maginot Line if you no longer want to have French friends! I do it all the time!!!
Ask any Frenchman if the root word of Maginot is imaginary!
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Here's a story on why they would give people who don't know what they're taking about a public voice. It's because they're a victim. And not because they're victims of the Ukrainian War. It's because they're a victim because a guy's wife was killed on a movie set. I'm talking about the incident involving actor Alec Baldwin. The cinematographer on set who was accidentally shot and killed was Ukrainian. Her American husband is trying to get his wife's parents out of the country and because the US and NATO aren't imposing a no-fly zone, he's demanding China place a no-fly zone over Ukraine. Are they going to bother to correct him on how China can't impose a no-fly zone even if they wanted to do it? In the Western victim culture, you don't dare do that with people who are in fragile states like children who can't handle the truth so the parents protect them by lying to them like how the US and NATO would prevent that from happening in the first place.
There is a difference between bending to western pressure and digging a bigger hole for yourself by being associated with an international pariah. I don't think it's too much to ask for china to not send military support to Russia during the conflict and to not export stuff with us parts to Russia. Just do those two things and nobody outside of china hawks can really give you a hard time.
Russia has no stealth bomber nor bases for them sitting along American borders
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