Ah, just like Trump united most of the world against him.

You know what? That’s actually a really good take

I mean, yes, Putin should have never begun the war to begin with. Those countries aren’t going to leave NATO if Russia leaves Ukraine today.

Man, to drop decorum, I don’t give a shit about the Russians and angering them. I’m just trying not to give Russia a pretext to do something really fucking stupid. Yes, they can perform false flag operations for their own pretext.

Joining an active war without a prior alliance is an escalation. To keep NATO defensive and not to bring them into an active war, there should be a different agreement signed.

Hell, NK joining the war is an escalation by both NK and Russia. Does this justify NATO adding Ukraine just for them to immediately invoke article 5? I don’t think so.

Regardless of ethics and politicking though, someone HAS to be done to show Russia that it can’t just arbitrarily annex parts of other countries.

Right, but if chooses too Ukraine will likely join NATO and Russia ends up with another NATO country against its land border.

The only reason they would withdraw is if they don’t have enough troops - which they are supplementing with North Korean troops. It’s against Russia’s geopolitical interest.

That and Putin is a crazy guy doing crazy things. Putin may not stop even if it IS in his best interests to do so

I mean, it is fraud if you represent yourself as a doctor of a field you don’t have a doctorate in. But for example, you can be Albert Einstein, PHD will a focus in stupid and no one will care

NATO maintains that it is a defensive alliance. If NATO starts adding countries Russia is currently at war with, it becomes an offensive alliance.

That being said, why wasn’t Ukraine added earlier?

That’s probably why NATO doesn’t invite countries at war. What’s stopping Ukraine from invoking article 5 immediately?

Clearly you have never been to China. It can take extra steps to VPN

Hey, someone has to try for the civilization conquest win.

Sorry I meant those as two separate frequencies

There’s generally a procedure for that:

1. Common frequency warning (ie. Guard frequency, 122.75)
2. Close flyby to make the airplane change direction
3. Shoot

If you skip the first two steps, you messed up and should be disciplined.

Ideally, the country that made the mistake should reach out to the other country to prevent escalation.

Sorry for the late response. Written and spoken order can be different (ie. $2 is pronounced two dollars and not dollar two)

2024-09-20 can be wordy:

In the year of 2024, in the 9th month, on the 20th day.

For those like me who don’t speak German, the S is for social-democratic, the p is for party and the d is for de (Germany)

No it’s not. Only care about the date in month? Just say the date. Do you care about the month too? Month Day is your answer. Do you care about the full date? Add on the year

We read numbers big->small. YYYY>MM>DD

Dicks are fun to play with? That’s news to me. For guys, I am attracted to muscles. For girls, I like things that bounce.

Why is turkey trying to have fingers in both pots

Rising East? Declining west? These sound like loaded terms designated for Chinese or Russian benefit…

Replace Turkey with Ukraine in NATO?