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Oppenheimer Movie Review
coppercone2:
yeah it was a little pov but its not dissolved.
even if it dropped to 1/3 of levels its not like it would not be formidable. Maybe it would fail but its still a major hassle to deal with (you would still need a total psychopath to engage it). Dissolving it however.......
pretty sure I heard t say that we don't need nato at all
and on the plus side those countries are kind of paying indirectly by being the potential battle zone and keeping down the cost of the navy and air force, because im pretty sure the navy budget would rise by 500000 percent if they made it to the western side of the ocean
its much cheaper to contain them on land
also if you tax those people too much they will just turn communist because its not like it does not work, you need to offer a better deal. lots of ambivlant people that will just take whatever is slightly better.
magic:
It's always been Eastern Europe (and South, I guess?) which had to deal with external enemies.
For the last thousand years the only enemies of Westerners were themselves, and overseas bushmen here and there.
They don't get it. Ruskies scared them for a while, but they thought the Cold War was over.
CatalinaWOW:
--- Quote from: magic on December 29, 2023, 03:42:02 am ---It's always been Eastern Europe (and South, I guess?) which had to deal with external enemies.
For the last thousand years the only enemies of Westerners were themselves, and overseas bushmen here and there.
They don't get it. Ruskies scared them for a while, but they thought the Cold War was over.
--- End quote ---
The '"Cold" part is.
coppice:
--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on December 29, 2023, 04:31:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: magic on December 29, 2023, 03:42:02 am ---It's always been Eastern Europe (and South, I guess?) which had to deal with external enemies.
For the last thousand years the only enemies of Westerners were themselves, and overseas bushmen here and there.
They don't get it. Ruskies scared them for a while, but they thought the Cold War was over.
--- End quote ---
The '"Cold" part is.
--- End quote ---
Really? The Americans don't seem to have got the message. They've continued manipulating things in Europe since the USSR fell, like that event never happened.
magic:
I think it was an allusion to things getting somewhat "hot" recently.
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