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

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

Russia should just covert to my local currency and wire it to me. It’ll make no different for their 3 day special military operation.

Oops that’s my fault sorry

I understand the distinction between mainland China and Taiwan. Those are not the entities at war. If, by some miracle, the ROC takes over HK or something, it’s still a civil war between the ROC and the communists.

Also, the capital of the ROC has never been Taipei. It’s Nanjing. It’s just currently controlled by the communists

Hang on, if you’re going to take things that far back and what you’re saying is not technically accurate. China and Taiwan have NEVER been at war. It’s technically a civil war between the Republic of China and the communist uprising. At the same, the Japanese had invaded China. The communists had almost been extinguished. They put aside their differences temporarily to drive out the Japanese. The KMT took more losses, allowing the communists to take over the mainland. The KMT fled to the province of Taiwan - on the island of Formosa.

Just touching on point, doesn’t the UK not have a constitution because it’s basically whatever the Monarch says? And there is basically an agreement to off on whatever the MPs decide because otherwise they would officially overthrow the monarch

Worst fires so far!

Is that something Québécois might actually agree with anglophones on?

Ouch. I don’t know many celebrities so most don’t affect me but this one hurts.

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.

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)