I’m Norwegian and I’ve never really been worried about Russia setting foot over here. Even less so now, after they insisted on showing the world just how incompetent their military is. Lethal and capable of massive destruction, yes, but also disorganized, flailing, incapable of progressing a mile without throwing massive resources at it.
I just don’t see how they would get far anywhere in the Nordics. They might be able to roll across the border into any of the countries, but not with any significant amount of weaponry, and the response from the west would be swift. At least I hope and assume so.
Let’s just make sure Trump isn’t elected and declares his love for dictators, again, yeah?
and the response from the west would be swift. At least I hope and assume so.
The whole point of NATO is that if you attack one country, the others come to the rescue, meaning the US war economy is frothing at the mouth just begging that Russia does something stupid with a NATO country. Not their backyard anyway.
Even less so now, after they insisted on showing the world just how incompetent their military is.
Which, for example, the Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish militaries still haven’t.
Do you realize that a military that doesn’t do a certain kind of activity (like mass warfare) loses capability for it over time? That’s truer for the Russian military with all the corruption, but there’s a little problem, - it has had 2 years with lots of learning.
There were widespread myths about Israeli military professionalism, but in the last few months they’ve shown the reality to be worse than expected too.
and the response from the west would be swift. At least I hope and assume so.
Yeah, see, there’s an element of “what if we feed him <country name> and expect him to eventually choke on it”. International law and allied obligations seem to have become fuzzier concepts in the last decade or so.
Seems a really weird action to invade a Nordic country still. Their policy seems to be about bullying ex-Soviet states to remain authoritarian shitholes.
I doubt Sweden, Norway, Finland or Denmark will be invaded due to being in the Nato club, but I do wonder who will protect Åland if Putler decides to take back his summer house? As far as I understand it is a very strategic position.
They have trouble grabbing a next-door land neighbor. They aren’t going to do well in a fully amphibious operation squeezed between Finland and Sweden.
I think it’s hilarious that western leaders are worried about provoking Russia by providing Ukraine with weaponry that can be used in Russian territory.
Russia is at war with us. It’s not tanks, fighter jets and battleships. It’s cyber warfare, disinfomation campaigns, bribing of right wing politicians and poisonings. Just because nobody wants to call it a war, doesn’t make it go away.
Therefore, consumers could wrongly believe that Burger King was trying to reach a new target audience by offering bureks, the court found. Burek, or börek, is a patty filled with meat or vegetables originating from Turkey and the Balkans.
No. Nobody is going to believe Hungry Jacks is going to open a separate chain to sell a Turkish food.
I never use the YouTube channels to watch their content, I prefer to watch that stuff right from the ARD/ZDF media library using an open-source application called MediathekView (GitHub). There’s also a web version.
The picture of Elbow Mush in the thumbnail looks like he’s going for the “Justin Timberlake if he aged badly after a diet of whiskey, hamburgers and pocket-fulls of drugs” look.
I think it would be better if they made their own instance that worked akin to Mastodon. Then they are always in control of it and people can use whatever Fediverse account to follow
Hmmm, did they? I’m looking and I can’t tell what their legit account is. There’s some account @c.im that has 25k followers but it doesn’t seem like the actual BBC account, just some 3rd-party not (like a dozen others).
I’m pretty sure they did, although I’ve used Mastadon even less than I used Twitter, so I can’t be 100% sure. However I’ve read articles over the months saying they were introducing an instance as a trial, and then that they were keeping it running after the trial.
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