Sometimes you argue for the lurkers, not the people in front of you. The key is avoid posting walls of text and to throw grenades, not catch them.

It’s not the the Supreme Court can’t control the president, it’s that they choose not to.

NATO successfully deterred the Soviet Union from invading Western and Central Europe for the entire cold war. That’s a VERY successful defensive pact.

Because it wasn’t problem-less. Those tensions always existed under the surface.

Did those countries jointly attack Libya because the NATO charter demanded it or because those countries agreed it was a good idea? Did all NATO countries join in attacking Libyan forces or just some of them? Joining NATO doesn’t give the NATO alliance sole control over who you’re country goes to war with.

The Russians have shown great ability and resolve to switch to a wartime economy and ramp up military industrial production while Europe has struggled for years just to increase their artillery shell production. The belief is that if the war in Ukraine ends, it won’t take Russia long to replace their loses.

If you remove the US from NATO, the remaining Military Strength of the alliance would have struggled with the Russia Military prior to the Ukraine Invasion and absolutely would have been unable to launch a meaningful ground offensive into Russia.

Paper Tiger is the wrong word. Russia has a dangerous military but is in no way the powerhouse it portrayed itself before invading Ukraine. They had built a small core of a modern professional military that they used a couple of times to great effect but they acted like they’d done that to the whole military. Also, some parts of the Russian military ARE excellent: their electronic warfare capabilities are top notch. They also maintain advanced espionage capabilities.

To be fair, Russia has geological challenges to maintaining an effective air defense; especially in the age of drones. It’s one of the reasons they couldn’t bring their whole air force to bear in the invasion of Ukraine: they had a huge amount of country to maintain coverage over.

To be fair, even most Russians in their Military and Intelligence thought a large land war in Europe was unthinkable.

NATO hasn’t carried out a single defensive operation in history

So you’re saying they were exceptionally effective as a deterrent to Soviet/Russian invasion

The fact that NATO could have utterly destroyed the Russian military at any point since shortly after the end of the Soviet Union handily disproves it and the further fact that most NATO countries let their militaries atrophy after the break up of the Soviet Union also disproves it. Great propaganda doesn’t need to be rooted in truth, just establish an out-group who cause all the problems and hold the in-group blameless.

Its a bizarre quirk of Terminally online Leftists. Modern Russia is arguably an Organized Crime Ring that owns a country but also meets most if not all of the criteria for Fascism. State controlled media has even voiced support for return to the days of the pre-Soviet Russian Empire.

Definitely happened to the conservative dude who moved his family to Russia for the bigotry towards Queer people and after signing up for the Army thinking he would be a welder got shipped to the front. Wife was getting increasingly desperate since there was no contact and he probably would have died before getting to talk to her again but the optics were getting too bad for the Russian government to ignore.

What is “a ban evader”

You are of course correct. My oversight.

There are alot of American Christians who are obsessed with End Times Prophecy which Israel plays a big part in.

No-True-Scotsman-Fallacy Fallacy

Communism is mostly used as a another tool for simply stealing power.

People who use Communism as a tool for simply stealing power are called Bolsheviks. Not all communists are like that.