if NATO attacked Russia. we'll probably be close to Moscow within a week and Putin would be launching ever threat he can think of from his underground bunker while the humming of drones surround the only way in and out.

US would probably be halfway to Siberia invading from Alaska. then China is gonna invade because they can.

Yea bro, most of the stuff is poop.

almost all wars usually have another nation or rich people supplying them that aren't at war with the other nation.

its annoying but its not 'going to war'. there are buyers, donators, and people that generally just support one side over the other.

its just a standard thing tbh. the US did it during WW1 before we entered the war. Germany mercenaries were used in the US revolutionary war. During the civil war they used French and British backers for weapons and stuff for the French side. China + Russia was bankrolling North Korea. Etc,etc,etc. Its just a normal thing for countries to support allies in times of war without being at war themselves.

>Technically all your excrement was at one point stomach acid

Pretty sure there's other stuff in there too

Stomach acid is mixed with other stuff in the stomach, so it’s not just acid. Then, once it leaves the stomach, it’s mixed with bile, which contains bicarbonate that neutralizes the acid.

More importantly, diarrhea happens when water filters into your intestines, diluting everything and flushing stuff out.

Thanks, hope in humanity restored

Private mercenaries are different than official government.

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You need three people acting unison to fire a strategic nuke, Putin being only one of them. These people have families, properties and lives they don't want to lose.

It is, but Russia declaring war against the world before it had time to fully mobilize its fighting age men would mean they get wiped out quicker.

Yup, WW2 was the perfect example. Hitler didn't need to declare war on the US, the US were only at war with Japan. Hitler did the US a favour by declaring war. Once he did, the US no longer had to jump through hoops to participate or keep sending aid.

There have been American mercs in Ukraine already.

Trouble is that these territories were annexed by Russia, and it is defending them. The fact that Ukraine has called for retaking Crimea and the calls for removing Putin do not help. From the Russian pov this is a defensive war to stop the advance of NATO to it's border, where it could place nuclear missiles within 5 min of Moscow. That's the end of Russian sovereignty. It's just another continuation of the Cold War, where the US fought at or near the borders of the Soviets or China and pretended it was defending against the spread of communism, which was not spread by force but by popular revolt. This is obvious to any who have studied modern history, but inconceivable to those who only know the current thing.

"Зачем нам мир без России?" - "Why do we need the world without Russia?" - a phrase commonly told by putin. A dictator who loses a self created war, loses power, and is desperate, is something to be feared. Russia doesn't want nuclear war, but nobody can say so about its leader.

Maybe I'm just panicking, but there no need to keep the guard down.

We are giving Ukraine weapons to aid their war against Russia, not just selling them. HIMARS are directed by US intelligence and fire control. We are literally bringing Ukrainians to the US to train on Abrams tanks, teaching Ukrainians to fight as NATO forces.

Your acid is in the stomach only, there are sphincters on both ends of the stomach. When the food moves by peristalsis into the small intestine the acid is neutralised with your own bodies basic juices

Diarrhea is uncontrollable contractions of the large intestine, there is never acid there unless something is seriously wrong further up

Eh They (decision makers of Russia) aren't going to fight a nuclear war with the west as they know MAD holds true as ever, and they aren't gonna fight a conventional war because why would they ever think that was a good idea

You are a bang that wants more territory. You are armed to the teeth with many gang members, lots of weapons.

You attack a neighboring gang that you used to basically control, because they seem to want to align with another gang a bit further away that hasn’t moved in on your territory, but you’re worried that they might, at some point.

The faraway gang doesn’t actually get involved in the fight, but they throw some arms at the gang you’re fighting, so that they can at least defend themselves.

Is the faraway gang in the fight? Yes or no?

No. As stated in the scenario above, the faraway gang hasn’t actually gotten involved in the fight themselves.

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The Taliban demanded proof that bin Laden did 9/11. The Taliban had no quarrel with the US prior to the invasion, even if they had close ties to Al Qaeda which wanted the US out of the mid east entirely.

You're badly misinformed. It was the US that armed the Mujahideen to fight the Soviets, and this became the Taliban. Guess who also helped fight the Soviets? Osama bin Laden. This is how they came into being, American training and military aid. We did the same thing in Syria, and we have done the same in Ukraine. It's the American MO, arm the enemies of our enemies, even if they're Hitler or Stalin or Sadam or bin Laden.

>no one wants to be the one to officially start world war 3

Let's hope so, after Russia started the invasion there is plenty of reasons to worry.

Diarrheal fluids typically originate in the bowel (small or large intestine), not the stomach. In addition to the length of the small and large bowels, all of which are absorptive tissue, and the fact that gastric acid is neutralized in the duodenum, there are four sphincters between the stomach and the toilet bowl - the pyloric sphincter, the ileocecal sphincter and the internal and external anal sphincters.

Diarrheal fluids are typically alkaline, not acidic because of all the intestinal bicarbonate secretion.

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Shut up! You're not my real dad!