West Must Be Prepared For War With Russia, NATO Official Warns Ahead Of Major Military Drills (www.rferl.org)
from Hooverx@lemm.ee to world@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 2024 15:06
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Stamets@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 2024 15:19 next collapse

Yeah I’m trying

Mr_Blott@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 2024 16:13 collapse

I’ve been practicing drinking vodka if that helps

myrdinn@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 2024 16:16 next collapse

Is anyone else too busy just trying to get through the day to care about shit like this? Politics, war, weather, gender arguments- who gives a fuck? I can’t afford a place to live.

extant@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 2024 17:47 next collapse

That’s the idea, you’re so busy dealing with the water coming into the boat you can’t fix the leak.

myrdinn@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 2024 23:23 collapse

Yep, and there’s only a tiny spec of land left and it’s full of wealthy people that don’t want us to reach it

xmunk@sh.itjust.works on 22 Jan 2024 19:49 next collapse

In theory, this is why we have representatives… outside of occasional drastic and personal decisions, you should be able to trust your representatives with ensuring America does the day to day shit that makes sense… and if a representative goes batshit insane talking about Jewish Space Lasers or pouring immense resources into an unjust war, then we vote them out and move on.

Unfortunately, the internet and two party politics are really fucking up our ability to delegate to our representatives.

Randomgal@lemmy.ca on 23 Jan 2024 15:32 collapse

Yep, this is a feature of the system, not a bug

doublejay1999@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 2024 16:16 next collapse

We have to realize it’s not a given that we are in peace. And that’s why we [NATO forces] are preparing for a conflict with Russia," Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, the NATO military committee chief, said in Brussels ahead of the start of the alliance’s largest exercise since the end of the Cold War.

Keen students of logic maybe observe the flaw in the Admirals argument : A vulnerable peace is not strengthened by preparing for war.

Carry on, Sailor.

Edit :

Oh my , what have we here :

Q. How is RFE/RL funded and managed? A. RFE/RL is funded by the U.S. Congress through the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM). USAGM is independent federal government agency that oversees all U.S. civilian international media. In addition to RFE/RL, this includes Voice of America, Radio and TV Marti, Radio Free Asia, Alhurra, and Radio Sawa. In addition to providing oversight, USAGM works with RFE/RL to ensure the professional independence and integrity of its journalists.

How very odd

SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 2024 17:52 next collapse

Keen students of logic may observe the flaw in the poster’s argument: militaries don’t exist to keep the peace, they exist for the contingency in which it fails. Being prepared for war is literally their job.

Deceptichum@kbin.social on 22 Jan 2024 21:39 collapse

Uh that’s a bit rich.

Many militaries have been used for aggressive action, they are not purely defensive.

Windex007@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 2024 18:17 next collapse

Keen students of logic will notice you’ve refuted the argument using a dubious naked assertion.

doublejay1999@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2024 00:05 collapse

Even you must see the irony in what you’ve written

Windex007@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2024 00:12 collapse

The burden is on you to support your own assertions, there is no irony whatsoever in me pointing this out. Any keen student of logic would be familiar with this principle.

doublejay1999@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2024 08:17 collapse

You will understand that you are not the arbiter of what is or is not “dubious” surely ? And that what you deem “dubious” is, to less contrary people, self evident ?

Windex007@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2024 13:28 collapse

Dubious means “suspect”, and what makes it “suspect” is the lack of any supporting argument. As a keen student of logic, I’m sure you must be familiar with this word and concept.

Justas@sh.itjust.works on 22 Jan 2024 18:50 collapse

“If you want peace, prepare for war.”

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Roman general

doublejay1999@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2024 00:09 collapse

I don’t think peace was his area of expertise.

xmunk@sh.itjust.works on 22 Jan 2024 17:26 next collapse

NATO Must be Prepared for us to be Fuck Heads and Reelect Donald Trump, Western Resident Warns Ahead of Major Election.

Resident quoted as saying, “We can’t even get our own house in order so you’re probably on your fucking own… also, who do I talk to about immigration?”

nexusband@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2024 06:34 collapse

If that wasn’t so true, that would actually be hilarious…

DoomBot5@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 2024 03:58 collapse

From what we’ve seen of Russia’s army. I think the US is ready. The only question remains, which branch of the military will achieve tactical superiority first. One could argue the Air Force because air superiority is usually one of the first things the US does, but the Navy might achieve that faster. Not to mention they could achieve water superiority even sooner by sinking the entire Russian navy.

Randomgal@lemmy.ca on 23 Jan 2024 15:31 collapse

People thought this about the US invasion of Afghanistan, and Vietnam, and… You get the point.