“keir this is poland, we just signed them. they spent over 4% of gdp on defense last year. their only flaw is they’re not deterred by mutually assured destruction”
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I just keep wondering if the US fully withdraws and article 5 is no longer on the table how long before Polish troops are in Ukraine? not necessarily on the front line but logistics and air defense
for valid historical reasons (and because it would crank russian propaganda to 11) it would be better if there wasn't direct polish military presence without it being a part of a larger initiative.
Russia is totally overrated, hasn’t had a positive WAR in a hundred fifty years and even that was against frail Ottoman opposition. But they’re a fan favorite with fascists and other reactionaries and the US seems hell bent on taking them away from China
I keep trying to tell people: Putin thinks he's won something here, but all he's really done is pissed off the Poles, & scared the Germans, into cooperating with each other. He might find that sitch less comfortable than he imagines...
Here in America we like to tease the Europeans about their defense spending without remembering that these people are fully capable of putting their whole economy on a war footing at the drop of a hat & they've actually done this several times in living memory
The people we think of as the polite, non-confrontational Europeans are a recent development. Historically, Europeans are the most bloodthirsty motherfuckers on Earth, & Putin might want to factor that in.
it's extremely annoying how it only took 80 years for everyone to forget that the notion of European powers -not- being at war every 20ish years is one of the greatest achievements of modern statecraft
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This is Lithuania. They aren't even on our draft board. But I know something about them none of you know. Do you know what they do? Nobody?
*Points at Jonah Hill*
They kill Russians?
THEY. KILL. RUSSIANS.
*Jonah Hill, slightly more confident* They kill Russians.
I want you to go back to your scouts, your feeder coaches, your sources, and find me Russian killers
I don't care about tax policy, or space exploration, or entitlements, or any of that. You find me Russia killers
That's right... Killing Russians.
a) they found a new country to exploit.
b) they're scared shitless.