echodot

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

I would be interested if there are any raspberry pi owning non-Linux users. It would sort of seem like the two would go together.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah because the Russians aren't going to invade. They would have to amass troops along the border we'd have some time.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

What Americans think is irrelevant. Their opinions do not matter to the Trump regime. I'm sure most Americans understand that refusing to uphold article 5 would be devastating to US international diplomacy, at least the ones that can read understand that.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can't see China wanting to get involved in the war. Wars are expensive, and the outcome is not guaranteed.

Besides China has improving relations with Europe, what is the point in risking that?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

Why would Europe engage in a two front war with the United States when it could instead just ignore the United States?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

Why would an occupied territory hosting US nuclear weapons build their own nuclear arsenal?

Many of them already do have nuclear weapons of their own. Also the US wouldn't have any say in whether or not they produce nuclear weapons they could announce their preference but they have no ability to enforce it.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It’s by no means clear the Europeans would succeed. Romanian and other European officials at the exercise in Cincu, about 260 kilometers (162 miles) north of Bucharest by road, voiced concerns about how long it would take for NATO allies to make it to the front.

Those two things are not synonymous.

Romanian military are concerned it would take allies time to get to the front (I.e. it would take time for NATO to mobilise in the event of an unanticipated invasion of Romania). However firstly that doesn't mean victory wouldn't be ultimately achieved (allied forces had a bad time of it during the first part of the second world war, but ultimately were victorious) and secondly it assumes that Russia would be able to rally its forces (what forces) and initiate a surprise invasion despite Europe heavily monitoring Russian military activity. Which all seems unlikely.

I'm also unclear about why 260 km is considered an insurmountable distance. In an emergency that distance could be covered in a couple of hours, (I'm assuming that liberation forces and not required to obey the speed limit) presumably everyone would be going the other way in any case.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I cannot work out why it's an elephant. Probably because that's just whatever the AI came up with and for some reason they just pick the first result

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 3 days ago

Oh no. I'll have to look at ads while I make use of their fantastic and totally useful product, oh yeah, never mind.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You can, through the magic of buying two of them.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That's not how agreements work. If it was, they would be pointless.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago

They're trying to go that route but there's a bunch of practical problems with that that they haven't considered.

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