I'm guessing you're american.

Off the top of my head, Europe's largest and most well maintained armies are the french, the British, and the German.

And after looking it up, Spain, Italy, and Poland does come in at 4'th, 5'th and 6'th, with half the combined military spending of the liberal economies, despite similar population sizes.

For christs sake, France, the most left leaning country in Europe has an enormous weapons industry, and exports everything from battleships and fighter planes, to rifles and munitions, while also being one of the worlds major nuclear powers.

Pulitzer prize winner Seymour Hersh claimed that the US navy is behind nord stream 2 bombing. Of course, he is basing this claim on an anonymous source, so not exactly the definition of credible. But I find it very interesting that this news is auto removed when submitted to the front page of r/worldnews.

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He's dreaming that if he guzzles enough of Putin's DNA he'll become him; like MHA.

There's definitely conventional explosives in a nuclear weapon, that's how they get the core to super criticality to begin the nuclear reaction.

It's raining outside my satellite office in Lyon, France right now. Guess the dry spell is over.

France has an extensive system of reservoirs and canals, hopefully 31 days won't have harmed crops.

With the help of China, no doubt.

>Mainly my worry is a simultaneous war in Europe and Asia,

Don't be ridiculous. No one wants to keep fighting this bullshit invasion except Putin. And that impotent little Vladolf Shitler doesn't even pose a legitimate threat to Europe, let alone NATO...and he knows it.

That's why he attacked Ukraine instead of a NATO European country after all.

Oh no way!!! And just days after Belarus said they would join the war only if Ukraine directly attacked them? Who could have predicted this surprising, and definitely not false flag turn of events.

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It's really up to Europeans. Would Swedes tolerate their Internet speeds dropping in half, or being forced to route all communications through satellites launched by USA? Would Swedes tolerate rolling blackouts or the occasional railroad derailment? What about interdiction and filtering of Swedish ferries for "terrorists" that are detained and then sent to Russia for imprisonment? Or hijackings of Swedish planes so their passengers can be used in human medical experiments?

All of this requires a large and effective military to respond to such incidents. Europe lacks this, except for countries with border problems like Spain, Italy and Poland. All conservative-leaning countries whose security policies have long drawn the ire of more left-leaning politicians. Europe would have to admit that many on the right are correct, and concede that not everyone has a right to live within Europe.

They fought a war with the Isles of Scilly for more than 300 years. They’re a doggedly determined foe.

I'm pretty sure attacking any NATO infrastructure is an immediate act of war. That in turn, triggers Article 5 which, in turn, fucks Russia even worse than they already are.

But what if Russia deploys their aircraft carrier?

It definitely floats on water!

Trying desperately to make their oil relevant again

Awwwww what is the matter Little Man ?, upset that Ukraine has troops ready and waiting for Russian Soldiers that just so happen to be using your area as a staging area to attack Ukraine ?

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Sold his nation's future for a few more years in power. I think he is the lowest, most degraded head of state in the world.

Ukraine needs planes, tanks, and missiles with enough range to hit Moscow. They should have never trusted Russia and gotten rid of their nukes

The Dutch are such fanatic warmongers they have been trying to pick a fight with Atlantic ocean for a few centuries now.

Like, give it a break. Eventually she will wake up and drown you all :(

Coming soon. Kick putin!

Their take is that the warmongering Dutch, famous for their warmongering, are warmongering again and innocent Russia will only attack if attacked.

I'm not protecting anyone. I'm saying they'll be just as fucked as the rest of us.

If every employee they have can't eat and society collapses, they're not gonna have very much left. Most of their net worth is locked in stocks which aren't liquid, and if their company collapses they'd probably become a lot less wealthy.

In 1896, a seminal paper by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius first predicted that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could substantially alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect. In 1938, Guy Callendar connected carbon dioxide increases in Earth's atmosphere to global warming.

You’re underestimating how effect guerrilla warfare can be. Random civilians can make combat hard for a tank, and as well armed as Americans are they can effectively shoot down drones.