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    19 hours ago

    Schools until recently told us that conventional war is ‘fallen out of time’, “look at UN, EU, OSCE”.

    Wow, that’s been the attitude here too, but you never hear people say it outright.

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      Technically, conventional war is largely obsolete. As long as you do have a reliable and credible nuclear deterrent. Germany has long been in the very comfortable position to fool itself into deeming conventional war obsolete without having to maintain an own nuclear deterrent. With the USA finally having revealed itself to even the most servile transatlanticist as an utterly unreliable ally, (in fact, as more of the kind of “ally” commonly referred to as “enemy”) this illusion is falling apart.

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        3 hours ago

        Oh, well that’s true. How is the offer of formal protection by France being received? I’d hate to see more proliferation.

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        3 hours ago

        Yeah, but, they all end. Nobody ever had a good argument why it had to go on forever.