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.”?

Instead of a traditional circus with tamed tigers and acrobats, the US has the unorthodox one, run by crazy clowns.

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)”

Poland is also buying… But I am not sure if our government is smart enough to reconsider. They want to be nice to the Orang Dictator hoping he will spare them… Ignoring that lord Musk already started attacking them on twiXter.

oligarchs in Russia and the oligarchs in the US, and they have control each of their respective countries

When oligarchs in russia behave like Musk, they soon fall out of the window.

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

So, imagine I suspect someone wants to kill me. But nobody believes me. Walking alone at night hoping to get shot… To own the non believers… Doesn’t sound like a smart plan.

In the US? Kinder Surprise!

Sell eggs to US? Who would do such a terrible thing to them?!? Trump treats every country that sells more stuff to the US as an aggressor, so why would anyone want to sell them anything? (And once eggs are no longer needed, trump would put tariffs to ruin all business that helped him out)

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

Move fast and break countries?

Da! Da Vania! No more vodka for you, go to sleep now.

Yup, I’m predicting 103% turnout.

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.