Im only asking cuz she been sending some signs and I’ve been ignoring them cuz I’m not sure if we’re related

"In private" in the sense "outside of their TV and press including it in their message". Those of us who live outside the Chinese and Russian infobubbles know.

Doesnt

Wdym does count?

There's not really a word for it, and there's no biological relation for two reasons.

1. It's a step child (no biological relationship because the child was brought into the family by marriage)

2. It's an in-law (no biological relationship because the child's father was brought into the family by marriage)

Either one of these would be sufficient to say you're not biologically related

Best I could give you would be step 2nd cousin in-law.

If she wasn't a step child, she'd be 2nd cousin in-law.

If she was your 2nd cousin's step sibling, she'd be step 2nd cousin.

I'd keep it simple and just say 2nd cousin. You'd only really need to be more specific if you were donating an organ or getting married to her.

You are not related in any way that can be deduced from the information provided. It's entirely possible that you're, like, 7th-cousins, 14 times removed or something, but without a much more extensive family tree, it's impossible to say that you are related in any way other than by double-marriage (which I'm assuming doesn't count in this scenario)

Edit: correcting an assumption

>My dad has a cousin and she has a son which is my second cousin.

Your dad's cousin is actually your 1st cousin once removed.

This chart makes it really easy to follow familial relationship from your perspective: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb6661d8dfc8c1836526d3a/7c86c5ef-d858-4f66-8d00-c6d3c34cfdc6/Family+Relationship+CHART

You're only related to the not biological kid by legal ties. You could marry that step daughter without issues.

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Because your actual armed forces aren't directly involved. No NATO boots on the ground, no NATO pilots flying sorties, no US cruisers conducting shore bombardments. OUR forces aren't the ones firing the actual shots.

That's it. That's the only difference.

That's why it's called a "proxy war." Instead of sending your own troops, you're sending materiel, money, training, and intelligence to support an allied country against a rival major power. ETA: And yes, we are accomplices. Accomplice is just a pejorative synonym for ally.

Because major powers don't want to fight each other directly due to the risk of escalating to World War and the probable nuclear exchange WW3 entails. And aiming blistering rhetoric (and diplomatic weapons like sanctions) at a rival for providing material support to the opposing belligerent is NOT the same as declaring war on them.

It's how basically all the wars of the last half of the 20th and now the 21st have been/are being fought. Because the alternative is worse.

ETA2: But yes, countries can and have declared war on a 3rd party for providing material support to their original opponent. You just have to be very careful about doing that when both you and that 3rd party in question are nuclear-armed.

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It stops at “her husband’s brother”. Her husband is your cousin once removed in law, but his brother is no relation to you, likewise his brother’s step daughter is no relation to you

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>all or even majority of russian nukes

...which means a wipeout of dozens of millions of people still. No need for nukes to be dropped ether way.

Half of ex-soviet block countries are currently in NATO and most of them, except only Belarus, practically hates Russia. Even countries that was sided with it before, like Kazakhstan or Armenia, currently distance themselves away. Even though in Kazakhstan it's autocracy pretty much like in Belarus. There's no profits in siding with Russia or in her winning the war, and besides, Russia already shown it's strength, or lack of it to be precise, and no one wants to be with loser.

And, btw, I'm from Russia (sadly). And though I've left the country, I know relatively well what's happening and where it's going.

Duodenum diddy dum diddy do

It's a joint military exercise...and both sides are learning quite a bit.

Even if the UK could continue to hold out, they could barely afford to counterattack, which effectively means they're a non factor and Hitler can focus all of his forces east, and those soviet casualties would be MUCH higher.

Point is, is if Hitler didn't declare war on the US, those few extra weeks/months could have resulted in a significantly different outcome. But as it is, Hitler did, and the rest is history. Literally.

NATO has better missile defense as well. It can't intercept all or even majority of russian nukes but it shifts balance in NATO balance even more

Hmm. Good point. I always assume the " layman" would have very little medical literacy, but even then I think you could figure out the meaning of their response without needing to know every term and where they are anatomically located, though knowing where the duodenum is located would help understand that acid is neutralized before entering the intestines.

>Stretched out, your intestines are about 3 times as long as you are tall.

According to my math this means Taco Bell is able to break the light barrier. We must learn more!

Depends on temperature and humidity etc.

Ones found on heated bathroom floors tend to be quite liquid after a while.

Source: am cop, sometimes find dead people when someone calls in their concern about a neighbor they haven't seen for a while

Also, we're not giving Ukraine weapons. It's a "special logistical operation".

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Well, that's not exactly the means of defense we're talking about. But ok, anyway, I stopped worrying

Basically been this way since the Cold War. The major powers fight through proxy wars to contest each other on their imperial interests. Going to war with each other directly means mutually assured destruction with nuclear weapons.

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