No questions, just a fan and always enjoyed listening to you on WAMU in DC. Keep up the good work and credible news stories and awareness. Looking forward to others questions and answers:)

Hi Ari! Love what you do. What was the most surprising of your findings during this reporting assignment?

My point is we wouldnt have invaded Iraq if Iraq had 1000 nukes

We wouldn't have bombed Serbia if they had lots of nukes

We love to play the bully against weaklings

But anyone who can actually hit back, we won't touch

Example - China - active genocide against Uyghurs, the world does nothing because nukes

Russia is openly invading Ukraine, the world does nothing to disable bases in Russia, because nukes

My point is - if you want to make sure the world won't do anything, put everything you have into buying/developing Nukes.

Needless to say we (US) and Russia fucked over Ukraine when we convinced them to give up their nukes

If Ukraine still had nukes today, there wouldnt be an invasion

"In response to our Joint invasion posturing with russia, who already attacked from our country, Ukraine seems to have begun setting up defenses... this displeases Putin, and he hits me when he gets mad... please let us invade you peacefully..."

So Romania helping Ukraine in the war is a show of bad faith? Should we stop that?

Those politians talk with no brain.

What’s so special with Romania since that makes you think it’s not in good faith?

It’s fair, but coming from Romania probably not in good faith.

Well, over populating the planet has consequences.

Wait , when did we get back to the stone age ?

Private russian armies are being trained now, paid for by some of the wealthiest companies on earth, once ready they will remove putin and the kremlin.

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 81%. (I'm a bot)

> India and Italy are expected to put nearly a decade of tensions over the arrest of Italian marines and other issues firmly behind them with discussions about a bilateral defence cooperation that is likely to be announced during Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni's visit to India.

> "A general agreement on bilateral cooperation in the defence sector ," a diplomatic source confirmed to The Hindu, adding that if talks do not conclude during Ms. Meloni's visit in March, the agreement will be ready for signing during her next visit to India in September for the G-20 summit.

> Last week, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held talks with Italian State Secretary for Defence Matteo Perego Di Cremnago in Bengaluru on the sidelines of the Aero India show, the first such visit in several years.

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We just gotta reach Murph.

Defence agreement = joint weapons development, military procurement, that kind of stuff.

It's not a military alliance (and it's not like a military alliance between Italy and India would make sense when they have completely different strategic interests anyway)

Guess that'd mean Russians doing so badly Ukraine has military to spare

So you're saying Russia has failed so completely, and Ukraine is so strong that they are able to amass enough troops on your border that it scares you. This is what you mean, correct?

Take a deep breath then relax. I grew up with the previous cold war and at times it scared the shit out of me because I was young and inexperienced in the global political way of things.

Now, with a reasonably long life of experience, I see this as sabre rattling and posturing. Believe it or not, things can get a lot scarier but in the end it will eventually blow over.

The ISw has made some bad predictions throughout this year (Bakhmut most importantly) but overall they've been a fantastic place to stay up to date

Fuck Russia.

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Is there any data that shows that the last times we inspected their missles they were in disrepair?

Not mutual defence pact. India still hasn’t made any, and wouldn’t start with Italy. This’ll just be something like more military exercises together, or maybe working together on development of military equipment.

More realistically populations and governments will turn to war with neighbors over the resources.

Haven't you realized it, man India is smart dealing with all sides. Neutrality sure has its benefits alright. I believe its to do with Subs, and torpedoes.

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