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Armored ground vehicles in a frontline role are largely worthless against a modern military; it’s too easy to take them out with drone-fired missiles or kamikaze drones. NATO doesn’t need to position planes in the Baltics when they’re within range of its air bases in Germany (airbases should be well behind the front lines anyway).
People often have no appreciation of scale. Russia has more armor than NATO has Javelins and loitering munitions.
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> Will NATO come for let’s say Latvia or Lithuania? I don't know about NATO, but I strongly hope that EU defends its territory integrity. And I am not sure Russia wants to find out either…
Paradoxically, the USA seems more active in the current conflict over Ukraine than the rest of the EU. And it was Germany who blocked the delivery of NATO weapons to Ukraine.
But don't take it too seriosly, that was long ago, now our brand new and most competent foreign affairs sock-puppet goes with the flow.
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How EU will do this? NATO is very clear about not being able to defend Baltic countries, they just don't have sufficient militarily presence. Polish army is currently even to weak to protect Poland, maybe this will change in next 10 years, as there are significant investments into army and military industry planned, but not now. EU would have to deploy immediately at least two heavily armed divisions to be able to pr…
please stop reading russia today and sputnik. you sound just like russian propaganda
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#384There is only way for country’s protection and it’s Israel’s way where whole country is also an army. Especially for countries near unfriendly countries like Russia in this submission. Because all the treaties and documents signed by politicians are absolutely worthless. Ukraine got rid of all the Soviet nuclear weapons and got lots of promises: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Secur... Now they…
Correct me if I am wrong but the more I digged into this story more I find it is much more nuanced than this. So briefly here is what I think had happened: - Russia had a huge strategic deal to sell Germany petroleum and natural gas. This was years of diplomatic work and finally got to the point where this looked like a reality. - The settlement of the above deal would be in EUR bypassing the typical petrodollar sett…
Same thing for Hussein.
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Nope. Military training as a part of the basic high school curriculum went away a whole ago. Vietnamese youth are about making money now. I don’t disagree the govt is prepared to counter China but they are also investing in a lot of other things.
I have been to Vietnam right before the pandemic and witnessed with my own eyes active training of high school and college students using mock AK-47s. The cultural focus of the students of course is their economic future in peace time, but the foundation of that peace for a small and otherwise vulnerable nation is the maintenance of their strategic deterrence, which continues to this day.
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#387NATO is over as US is leaving it. I assure you Biden has far more serious issues at home like ~25% PPI (not the end product official number, but for the whole chain) which has to be somehow solved before May for him to look good during the elections in November. Also, he has to do something with military forces at home.
I mean he doesn't give a single shit about Ukraine. The US don't need Ukraine anymore as a weapon against Russia and what will happen has already been more or less settled among the parties presented by Putin, Biden, Modi and Xi.
Now Ukraine absolutely can't exist as an independent state even purely economically. They used to have really great start conditions 30 years ago but they fucked it up really badly. But even if they still had that they'd simply not have enough markets to sell their stuff. EU will obviously not support them. Also there are actually very different parts of Ukraine. Russia doesn't need in any way toxic Galicia where anti-Russian movement has been growing for ages (literally). Having such people for Russia would be a great PITA. On the other hand LNR and DNR are Russian, for instance.
Now taking all that into account just stop talking about Ukraine and find something that really matters.
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Europeans don't hate Russians as much as Americans do - probably because they've actually got Russians visiting and know that Russia doesn't really represent the threat that the American military-industrial complex needs you to believe is real in order to justify their trillion dollar misadventures and further subjugation of NATO member states into puppetry. In fact, a lot of Europeans would like to see peace made wi…
Seriously: > Europeans don't hate Russians as much as Americans do - I seriously doubt Americans really hates Russia, and at least not more than any eastern country who has been crushed by USSR for some decades. > probably because they've actually got Russians visiting and know that Russia doesn't really represent the threat that the American military-industrial complex needs you to believe is real in order to justif…
It is the West that creates this situation:
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>Britains deal with Hitler. A deal with Russia
These are not equivalent by any stretch. Putin is not Hitler.
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I have multiple work colleagues in Slovakia, a stones throw away from me, who are very definitely against NATO bases expanding into eastern/central Europe. I suggest you ask your relatives how they feel about NATO encroaching further and further towards Russias' borders, and what do they think about the recent NATO exercise that flew armed nuclear missiles within 20km's of Russias borders. If the tables were turned,…
NATO is not a country. WTF are you talking about? NATO is a defensive alliance. A country can join or leave NATO alliance. Nobody forces a country to join alliance. The higher threat RF creates for others, the more other countries are wanting to join an alliance to get protection from RF threats. I highly suspect that your colleagues in Slovakia are invented.
NATO is the threat that Russia is responding to by buffering its borders and protecting its nuclear-armed naval base on Crimea. Its not Russia putting American bombs within strike distance - its the USA and its criminal NATO partners.
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Germans would like to have their country back and kick NATO out. Serbians, Hungarians, Slovakians, Czechians, Slovenians .. even my colleagues in Kosovo are sick of Americas' shit. The reason is, they don't live behind an iron curtain of censorship of America's crimes against humanity, as most Americans/Western Europeans do.
[citation needed] There are two major parties in Germany who oppose NATO membership: The far-right AfD and the left to far-left Linke. They have less than 20% of the national vote together. In 2019 there were 54% of Germans in favor of the NATO membership and 13% opposed it. [1] Can't talk for the other countries, but given that you have no sources other than "I heard someone say that", I'm not inclined to believe it…
From outside the American media bubble, it is quite clear to see which nation is committing the majority of crimes against humanity and war crimes today, and they don't speak Russian. They commit these crimes like cowards, hiding in Arizona strip malls, remotely controlling their death robots and raining hell and fury down on utterly innocent people, every single day. Germans know this and care. Americans either don't know about it, or don't care - or both.