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  • NATO maintains that it is a defensive alliance. If NATO starts adding countries Russia is currently at war with, it becomes an offensive alliance.

    I don’t think so. Ukraine is in a defensive war. Actively joining their side doesn’t turn it into an offensive one. The difference between offensive and defensive conflicts is the goal: In an offensive, you want to gain something. In a defence, it is about keeping what you have. Just because NATO would come to their aid, Ukraine wouldn’t want to conquer Russia.

    That being said, why wasn’t Ukraine added earlier?

    Multiple reasons probably:

    • Ukraine was and to some extent still is a post-soviet state: Oligarchs, corruption and all that comes with it.
    • There was the Budapest Memorandum in place which guaranteed a sovereign Ukrainian state affectively as buffer between Russia and other NATO countries. Which was subsequently broken by Russia in 2014.
    • “Don’t anger the Russians”. See where this got us?






  • I really hope it’s going to be closer to the original than Below Zero.

    I liked Below Zero but it wasn’t able to instill the same feeling of dread and anxiety that Subnautica could. Below Zero felt a lot more “child-friendly”.

    And for the love of god: Get that Sea Truck out of my sights. I want my Cyclops back!


  • AT MOST 5 a week and there are also weeks where I receive none at all. Interestingly it always seems to be the same type of spam from different adresses so there is probably a bot net somewhere that has my address and every month or so when the owners start a new wave I get a few and thats it.

    On the other hand how many false positives have you had to pick out of the bin?


  • Zum einen ist das auch wieder Diskriminierung, wenn ein besser qualifizierter Mann wegen seines Geschlechts übergangen wird.

    Außerdem glaube ich nicht, dass dann in 50 % der Fälle die beste Frau gewinnt, sondern eher die Frau, mit der sich die alten weisen Männer am ehesten abfinden können. Also nach der Art “Die wird uns schon keine Probleme bereiten”. Bei gerade mal 26 % Frauenanteil in der CDU ist das nicht zu vernachlässigen. Besetzungen wie Jens Spahn im Gesundheitsministerium zeigen ebenso, dass Parteien Posten nicht wirklich nach Expertise vergeben.

    Ja, die Quote ist das kleinere Übel, aber “mehr als genügen” tut es meiner Ansicht nach definitiv nicht.




  • Well, it was bound to happen at some point.

    Many features probably have been investigated by Russia already anyway, since Turkey wrecked a bunch of their Leos in Syria a couple of years ago. But of course, having an intact one gives a lot more options.

    […] the factory where the Leopard 2 resurfaced is far from the front line in Ukraine.

    Well, smoking accidents can happen everywhere.

    Also, funny to see in the article that hinterland made it into English as well.