1 hour ago, NativeBob said:

Wow! how did you come to this conclusion? Can read mind?

Can you defend your description of NATO?

6 minutes ago, candide said:

Not sure Putin would agree that Russia is a small country! Ok,  I know It's GDP is around the same level as Italy. 😁

nope, NATO attacked small countries, but not, NATO is not going to attack Russia. GDP has nothing to do with it. World "survived" Cold War so nothing is going to happen. 

However, my longtime friend told me that property prices go crazy in Tasmania. Even Thor bought a small villa. Why do they?

A rather splendid speech from Poland..........

 

 

On 3/2/2024 at 5:07 PM, nauseus said:

 

Do tell.

During the "cold war" my life was never better. We actually had a real military way back then, not the Mickey Duck thing now. I had a great time in the military, saw much of the world, but after the "cold war" ended it all got a bit sad.

16 hours ago, NativeBob said:

However, my longtime friend told me that property prices go crazy in Tasmania. Even Thor bought a small villa. Why do they?

 

Native? Of Mars perhaps?

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

During the "cold war" my life was never better. We actually had a real military way back then, not the Mickey Duck thing now. I had a great time in the military, saw much of the world, but after the "cold war" ended it all got a bit sad.

 

With a nuclear threat - see the world!

I think it is over-rated. Every country's CENTCOM (or whatever its called) has "what-if" and "how-to" plans in case of som tam hits a fan , Even some midget states size of Naklua develop "highly secret" plans.
IMHO the current military race is just a bunch of a**holes making money, that's all.