You're just watching too many movies. Every single person that made the same remarks in real live didn't do very well on their plans.

If NATO sends troops to Ukraine then Russia will really escalate the war and things won't go well to either side.

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I think the US would join the war even if Germany didn't declare on them. But it sure made the US population more keen to fight when war was declared upon them than the contrary.

well, the fear is that Russia will use their tactical nuclear weapons, which will resolve in a retaliation of the US (they officially said so) which will be an act of war. (please note,the US said they will use conventional retaliation)

And to be fair, Russian generals probably want to use these weapons, it would make the war much easier and with the latest promised delivery of modern tanks it may cross the line.

If a nuke explodes in my backyard I dont really care anymore who wins the war

Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome? Sounds like it. That’s what I have and it is nooo joke!!

Proxy wars have been going on since the time of man.

When England and France were going at it they would often hire Spanish, Portuguese and Italian ships to fight. Often changing sides for the higher payer.

when the USSR invaded Afghanistan the US government heavy funded the Taliban.

When the USA went to Vietnam the USSR funded the VC party and troops.

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its dirty business.

Providing weapons while in an active conflict is generally considered taking a side in the conflict, especially if you give them for free.

This has a big impact because history has shown that basically you cannot defeat a people until they accept defeat. One of the ways to cripple an enemy and hopefully get them to give up the fight is to destroy their military production. When arms are supplied by another country, that puts their arms production out of range unless you add the supplier to the conflict and attack them, too.

Here's what I remember from reading the excellent Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, recommended elsewhere in this thread:

There are two unrelated cycles that help us get to sleep. One is our circadian cycle, or the "is it time to be awake or asleep right now?" cycle. Your body has a sense of whether it's daytime or nighttime, based on exposure to light, internal timekeeping, and some other factors. So you're naturally more awake during the day and get sleepy at night. This can get messed up when we travel to a different time zone -- we call this jet lag.

The other is the sleep pressure cycle, or the "how tired am I?" cycle. There's a chemical in our bodies called adenosine that builds up while we're awake, and gets cleared out while we're asleep. This chemical makes us feel sleepy, generating "sleep pressure" that helps us fall asleep.

So if you wake up and go to sleep at the same time every day, your sleep pressure cycle and your circadian cycle line up: when night falls, you have a lot of adenosine built up, so you can fall asleep more easily. But if you oversleep one day, you start making adenosine later in the day, so you have less at nighttime. Your circadian rhythm tells you you're sleepy, but you don't have as much sleep pressure, so it's harder to fall asleep. So maybe you lie awake for a long time and wake up late the next day, too, perpetuating the problem. For a lot of people, once the cycles get out of whack, it's hard to get them back into sync.

As other people have said, everyone's different. Some people have no problem with flexible sleep schedules. For me, making sure I go to bed and wake up at the same time every day has been AMAZINGLY helpful. I used to have terrible insomnia, and now it's much milder.

If this is something you struggle with, I definitely recommend reading Why We Sleep. It's not a self-help book, but I found it really helpful in understanding my own sleep issues.

Go eat some fruit and go for a 30 minute walk.

And while we are on the subject, damn it Timmy clean your room and take a shower!

• definitely not a dad.

How is giving your kid a hamburger, you not eating?

But those people probably brainwashed to oblivion.

Probably, technically that won't be a world war, since Russia won't have any allies, at least not of any significant power. It would be more like The World-Russian war.

I highly doubt that China or Iran would join such endeavor on russian side.

Are you living in Ukraine? If not, what are you worrying about? Russia has no chance against NATO

In addition to addition, Ukraine didn't formally declared war either.

The same way Russia is not in a war. They proclaimed it a security action and actually punish people who call it “war”. So you can use whatever terminology you want, it’s not like there’s language police (unless you’re in Russia) to stop you from doing that. Formally, the US has not declared a war since 1942.

The Mujahideen weren't a monolithic group. This was why there was civil war after the Soviets pulled out. I am sure the Taliban fighters received arms, training from the CIA, but nothing in Afghanistan is that cut and dry.

Hello, felllow airline employee?

This is why the west had not given a blank check for Ukraine to get any weapons the ask for. If ukraine crosses into Russia, there is fear this would escalate further. Airstrikes and drones on military bases are OK, but not occupation.

Note Belorus allowing Putin to use their territory to stage the attack is generally also considered being a belligerent.

Again, not quite. The original Mujahiddin were mostly Pashtun tribal groups, armed and trained by the US. The Taliban were religious students from both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border who grew support after the mujahiddin factions proved incapable of providing any kind of order.

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Why don't you replace the word "annexed" with "invaded", and consider how ridiculous that euphemism sounds? Russia had no more justification invading Ukraine in 2014 than they did in 2022; the only difference was that they received a relative slap on the wrist from the international community for seizing chunks of another sovereign nation, which Putin and Russia have since interpreted as a fait accompli, and a justification for endless expansion into former Soviet territory. Ukraine today, tomorrow Moldova, Georgia, the Baltics, Finland, etc.

Just because Putin has brainwashed his own populace into buying this bullshit narrative doesn't mean the rest of the world is in any way obligated to respect or go along with their delusions.

As someone citing "modern history" as a pretext, Ukraine gave up former Soviet nukes stationed there 30 years ago in exchange for security guarantees from Russia. Putin is the global equivalent of some douchebag schoolyard bully who repeatedly slaps you with your own hand, while yelling "why you hitting yourself?".

I'm sure that if you lived in Ukraine. saw your own people brutally killed in attacks clearly targeting civilians, and weren't some tankie quisling, you'd want Putin dead and gone yesterday too.

That is also not exactly what happened, though, is it? It's not known if Bin Laden and Al Qaeda leaders were even in Afghanistan at the time; many of them very quickly fled to Pakistan, for example. Even if they were in Afghanistan, the tribal areas where they would be hiding are a bit of a political and cultural quagmire in themselves. And Pakistan is, after all, where Bin Laden was eventually found.

While it is extremely likely some members of the Taliban regularly did withhold information, acting as if extradition was this simple little thing that simply "did not happen" is... misleading and jingoistic, at the very least.

The invasion and subsequent lengthy occupation was (and still is, by consequences) an extremely complex geopolitical event with an abundance of nuance, and the vast majority of the pertinent information is likely never going to be publicly known.

>rouble is that these territories were annexed by Russia,

idk about you but i lived before the the twenty tens... Russia was accepted into the western world with trade deals and everything else in between.

Russia literally drew the map to Ukraine before they started this war. So anything that happens is their fault.

Literally no one is ever thinking of invading Russia other than China and Russia officials because they're too busy looting the country. No one thinks about Russia until they started this Crimea bullshit.

The entire reason Russia is this screwed up is because the people in charge need to drive an idea that the west hates them while Russia continues to cheat, loot, and murder their way to the point that they've become the monster they claimed to be. Russia's biggest threat has always been itself and the corruption that gutted the nation. The country government is incapable of doing anything honest whether its supplying their milltary to teenage figure skating.

Everyone still has nukes the timing of 5 minutes vs 10 minutes is still nothing whether there are nukes in Poland vs Ukraine vs Cuba it doesn't matter. MAD exists for everyone including the US.