The ironic thing is that I think the only realistic way to get an European army on a reasonable time scale would be pretty much the worst case scenario: A full conventional war with Russia without US support, which would literally force European countries to integrate their militaries beyond what we currently do in NATO.
I guess I just wouldn't call it insurance as it barley mitigates the impacts of a potential blockade. It's more like their backup lifeline should shit hit the fan.
That's a bit of a stretch. I'm sure Russia could supply them with oil, but you can't just shift China's sea trade to land like that. So a blockade would still have a massive impact. Not a very good insurance.
So you want to be deluded?
The ironic thing is that I think the only realistic way to get an European army on a reasonable time scale would be pretty much the worst case scenario: A full conventional war with Russia without US support, which would literally force European countries to integrate their militaries beyond what we currently do in NATO.
Damn, you'd think weed dealers would be more chill, lol.
lemmus.org was online the entire time.
Had no problems here on lemmus.org.
Why not?
Oh no, not an arms race against ... North Korea!
I guess it could, but I'd say it's rather unlikely.
Still, I'd rather have a military than can stand up to Russia should things escalate instead of not having one on the off-chance democracy collapses.
I guess I just wouldn't call it insurance as it barley mitigates the impacts of a potential blockade. It's more like their backup lifeline should shit hit the fan.
That's a bit of a stretch. I'm sure Russia could supply them with oil, but you can't just shift China's sea trade to land like that. So a blockade would still have a massive impact. Not a very good insurance.
How is Russia an insurance against that?
It was more of a mosque until very recently, so not really.
I hope they fixed the hair-trigger on the drag-ungrouping ... so annoying.
1st class train tickets. More comfortable, more space and no seat neighbour is way worth it on longer journeys.
When this is the standard for journalism that is promoted by the mods here then it's time leave this one.
Because they occasionally eat small mammals (and insects).
I read that as "if they're on Band Camp".
Easy. They don't.
In the end it's a legal document and the terms are defined for the purpose of the regulation, not necessarily how the terms are used in daily life.