This more or less. Michael Kofman had a pretty interesting take on this in the War on the Rocks podcast. Ukraine’s professional, modern army is trained in (to oversimplify it completely) the “NATO style”, which is dynamic and allows for greater independance of junior leadership. The draw is…
[–]BlessedTacoDevourer 49 points50 points51 points 7 hours ago (4 children)The point of it is to maintain peace and protect human rights, its main goal is to prevent a third world war. It has a practical approach, not a moral one. This means that rather than acting depending on what’s…
[–]riskbreaker23 69 points70 points71 points 18 hours ago (3 children)Yes, exactly. For years Finland was keen to appease Russia because it appeared that Russia could be appeased. Ukraine was doing the same thing. Putin was upset about Ukraine joining NATO (or so he says) but Ukraine shelved talks to…
People don’t talk about it much because nobody thought Finland would be in NATO so soon. It hasn’t dawned on most yet, but many already do know the reality of it. What you list about its border is exactly WHY it is so devastating to Russia: It’s relatively…
No worries, it’s easy to get past Bloomberg’s paywall. Enjoy: Russia detained US journalist Evan Gershkovich for alleged espionage, triggering a new confrontation between Moscow and Washington. The 31-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested in the Urals by Federal Security Service agents and brought to Moscow where…
[–]Nickerd 11 points12 points13 points 1 day ago (0 children)Technically that wasn’t Macron but it was the French Prime minister and her cabinet. The Assembly could’ve voted them out and shot down the bill. France is a semi-presidential system. The President and the National Assembly are elected by the…
Article – The United States is now the biggest supplier of crude oil to the European Union. In December, 18% of the bloc’s crude imports came from America, EU data office Eurostat said Tuesday. That is a big turnaround. Russia was until recently the bloc’s top supplier of…
[–]autotldrBOT 1505 points1506 points1507 points 2 days ago (368 children)This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 79%. (I’m a bot) Italy’s right-wing government has backed a bill that would ban laboratory-produced meat and other synthetic foods, highlighting Italian food heritage and health protection. So far…
oh man. I can’t even really picture what an attack on a NATO country would look like. Assuming that no one goes nuclear, it would be the world’s biggest ass kicking. Half the modern world has been preparing for war with russia for 75 years. In theory, russia…
I’m not so much defending the teacher’s actions or trying to create a moral relativism or muck it up. My point is about how easy it would be for me to judge that person’s virtue on the internet if I’m sitting in a position where I have to…
