Article 5 doesn’t actually oblige NATO members

I do not share your interpretation (although I know that it has been the popular one recently).

I read it like this:

1. The obligation is out of any question: they “will” assist.

2. The goal of all measures is defined: “restore […] peace and security”.

3. The choice of measures isn’t totally free. It must fit to that goal.

So, yes they can decide whether or not no use force, but they cannot follow random political agendas there.

And not fold paper airplanes instead of real ones :)

Greenland is not a nato member

That’s like saying your right arm isn’t a human.

Greenland is simply a part of Denmark, so it is a NATO member.

USA itself would violate it’s own membership. With such an act it became the enemy of the NATO.

Surely we would not have our bodies so full of microplastic if our stomachs could destroy them.

Nice try, Bezos

Mujahideen in Afghanistan or on the front lines of Korea or any of a dozen other proxy wars.

I do not count these as the Cold War.

Proxy wars have their special funding and maybe false motives, but they are hot wars. Real wars.

The Cold War consisted of threats. Piling up weapons, bombs, nukes, and counting and comparing who’s got more of them. These threats were made mainly by politicians. Maybe I was wrong in saying they “fought” it.

Who exactly

Some AI or other, at some 3 letter agency, but they will never tell you exactly.

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The U.S. is eyeing Greenland

I believe that the Great Tricktator is already determined to rob it. Question is only, how, that means, which exact tactic he is going to apply.

I am so fucking glad Europe got nukes.

The Cold War is over. We live in very different times now. Try to understand it.

to further erode European sovereignty?

This whole situation is not about Europe. Europe is a mere nuisance.

This is how people brainwashed by capitalism would use it to deprive us all of the post-scarcity future.

That doesn’t work out. Unfortunately.

Reason:

When it was politicians who fought the Cold War, they were few who had actually a say, and these few got some minimum brain, at least.

But in your scenario, it is random jerks who execute that scheme everywhere. There will be some who pull the trigger just for … all kinds of stupid shit that has triggered them. So you’d have nukes going off somewhere, at least every few days, and then nobody can really rule the world anymore with them. The power of the threat will be gone.

The caveat here is why Europeans are a bit better than this?

The European countries had their own wave of fascism and dictatorship in recent centuries. Some seem to have leaned from the experience.

It should also be said that tarring all Americans with the same brush is unfair. I think it was the votes of less than a third of eligible voters that made Trump 2.0 a reality

But that means all the non-voters are to blame as well.

And why are the streets so empty now? I can’t see and hear all these democrats out there.

https://martin-niemoeller-stiftung.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/NiemollerQuoteMonmouthNJ580pxw.jpg

The descent became a downslide and now it’s an avalanche.

No, it hasn’t always been that bad. Stupidity happens. It is human. Most times people were able to keep stupidity in check.

That’s why democracy was invented, by the way. It was founded on the belief that a collective can be more reasonable than a single or small group.

Not saying that reason were the opposite of stupidity (that would be wisdom), but reason is a means to keep stupidity in check.

leading to all out war and global catastrophe.

I doubt it.

Unlike your typical nice bar brawl, not everybody is actually that eager to get involved in an exchange of nukes, and alliances get sometimes weaker when the risks get higher.

I wasn’t getting into the literal size of bomb impact areas vs global surface area.

Of course you are free to build your opinion on whatever speculation you like the most.

Did you know that a good share of all American nukes are mounted on short range missiles that can travel only 100 km or so? Some people were considering funny scenarios there…

He’s been saying “fully autonomous” by next year for literally like 10 years, lol. Short memories indeed.

I just never heard that he announced it like 3 months from now! 🤣

Isn’t it the same with the Jehovah’s witnesses announcing the end of the world in 3 years, then in 2, then in 1, and then… silence?

But of course he will never be able to do that:

Silence.

I suggest to read about Hiroshima, and what really happened there, and afterwards.

Here’s a good book: Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki https://a.co/d/8KS4RXC

One bomb kills people in a circle of 10 or 50 km (I forgot), and injures people maybe 100km around. Then it does damage to nature maybe even 1000 km around. I live 2000km from Chernobyl, and we had some warnings regarding vegetables for a year or so.

But the planet has a circumference of 40.000 km. Now let your thoughts run around the planet.

an effective deterrent to war

Do not fool yourself. Nukes have NOT achieved that on their own.

It has always been humans who were somewhat responsible and willing to communicate (diplomacy) instead of shooting blindly.

Top 100 means about half of all countries.

So many people having their fingers at the triggers. There would be many unreasonable and evil ones among them.

We would have nuclear war every year.

Not in these next 4 years.

Afterwards, if judges still exist, you can try to force Tesla (with the help of judges) to allow your right to repair.

miniPC cluster

Thank you! You got me thinking here. Maybe several minis are better than one fat new ryzen with so many cores on an ATX board? But the mini’s fans are usually ugly loud when doing some real work.

I need to read actual benchmarks and then compare…