Are you referring to that time when allies asked Poland not to mobilise the army to avoid provoking Hitler, so Poland did not mobilise… And Hitler did not attack, instead they all smiled and danced together and 1939 is remembered as a year when diplomacy prevailed! /S

Or the one when Ukraine handed over their nuclear weapons to Russia and in exchange Russia agreed to never attack them

Or to Switzerland that is neutral in every conflict. Has only 9 million citizens but 100 000 soldiers in active duty, 50 000 in reserve and more than half million civilians with army training. They also had explosives under every bridge, and a lot of weapon stashes all over the country, just in case.

It implies that when you are strong, people are afraid to attack you.

What’s ignorant about it?

“be put on war footing”… By having an army? Did you ever heard that old saying “if you want peace, prepare for war.”?

I love (/s) how YouTube went from “If you want to see new content from this guy subscribe” to “If you want to see new content from this guy subscribe and click the bell icon” to “If you want to see new content from this guy subscribe and click the other, bell icon that will notify you about ALL new content (until we find a reason to filter that as well)”

Russia has allocated 25% of its current (2025) budget to military spending.

On what grounds? Are you suggesting a soviet style government takeover of existing business? If you would like to do it in the “civilized way” you would have to buy that business and while it might be profitable in a very long run it would cost you much more right now (and state owned companies tend to get less efficient).

Ok, but what is your proposed solution to the current problem? Problem being: aggressive Russia, and isolationist USA (and possibly aggressive in the future).

Start the nationalization process and if someone attacks, we will shout “give me 10 more years, I’m almost done restructuring”?

Ok, but you could use exactly the same argument against ANY government expanse.

Free health care? Free education? Why “waste” money on that?

We are just one of the richest regions of the world, we can’t throw money around on luxuries like safety and freedom. If the little green men try to take over Estonia, we can always show our solidarity by drawing hearts next to the Estonian embassy. When Adolf Trumpler reaches for Greenland we can express serious concern /s

Why? If we use that money to develop our own manufacturing capabilities (as we should) that might actually create a lot of jobs.

Trump’s second term has just started (and we are not sure how many terms he has left) we need to keep stronger words like betrayal for more obvious situations like the one with Canada or Greenland… Otherwise we won’t be able to describe his next actions.

Dear Canada, please join the EU as soon as possible!

Don’t know, did Nazi him

The stakes are high!

Most STDs are better than Trump.

Ollama model that dies, would definitely be more realistic than all the boys acting like men. Good luck.

Yup… Work your ass off guys, so we can fire you sooner! Great deal.