It’s still possible to ask if Germany could have prevented it.

hadn’t been held back by lazy MS et al.

MS is not lazy but working hard to maintain their lead.

edit: Just noticed that my phrasing is bad and could be seen as praise. OP is right, MS is holding everybody back.

I meant to say that they abuse their market domination to maintain their lead.

Look at MS Teams. It was free until Slack was done as a competitor.

MS did things but that’s inevitable. The crucial part are the things that they prevented.

It’s increadible that OP is even downvoted.

It’s two quotes. Miners don’t throw coal into furnaces.

My liberal friends were saying, ‘You can’t expect them to be able to do that,’” Biden told his New Hampshire audience. “Anybody who can go down 300 to 3,000 feet in a mine, sure in hell can learn to program as well, but we don’t think of it that way,” he said.

“Gimme a break! Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program for God’s sake.”

However, the only strategically significant rival we have that utilizes those shopping lanes are Russia, whom the administration wants to buddy up too.

If that doesn’t play out, Putin will be dropped like Saddam.

Better than being a hopeless doomer about everything.

How can any change happen if there is only a limited willingness to perveive reality and analyze it?

Only if the summary is included in the training data.

After all, it’d be much easier to press on a button that’d kill 10 000 people living 10 000 km away from you than to stab one person to death.

That could be the result of our training. After all, people die for our way of life and we have to cope.

Don’t use the Zimbardo prison experiment. From your link:

Certain critics have described the study as unscientific and fraudulent.[6][7] In particular, Thibault Le Texier has established that the guards were asked directly to behave in certain ways in order to confirm Zimbardo’s conclusions, which were largely written in advance of the experiment.

I know the UK banned women’s orgasms

Why? To prevent British women from having expectations?

If only Musk would use LSD or whichever drug helps to resolve those issues instead of ketamine.

You will get that war. The USA and China will clash and the EU is preparing to take care of Russia when that war starts.

Heatpumps in front of houses.

For those attacks the size doesn’t matter but the willingness of breaking the law. My size argument is that the USA and China will clash. Europe will engage Russia when that happens.

Thank you for your insightful feedback. Have a great WE, too.

When all you have is two hammers, one of them starts to look like a nail.

Insightful

So you’re genuinely advocating breaking international law?

No, I just believe that the EU will break the law and attack, like members already did in Libya and Iraq.

I can also say that I was not the one talking about fantasies.

Edit and yes, there is a need to wait for Ukraine EU membership

Is there a reason for that? UN article 51 seems to allow support of other countries if they are attacked.

Too simple for an explanation, they are not stupid.

Ukraine soldiers are trained for 3 months. There can’t be much infrastructure needed for an attack since the battle is on enemy territory when it starts.

Also, surely you’re aware that wars of aggression are banned in international law?

Iraq, Libya and others. At worst we call it a special military operation in support of Ukraine.

That’s why we need to get Ukraine to the EU, so that then it’s not a war of aggression, but honoring the mutual defense clause.

I guess there is no need to wait for EU membership to help a country in need.

Oh and, in which country’s military forces would you be participating in this attack fantasy?

None. After these comments at most they will use me for medical support.

So the laws won’t protect the children. Then why do those laws exist?

That’s why the new weapons are needed, to prepare for an attack.

Why else would Europe need those weapons? Russia has problems fighting Ukraine. How could they fight Europe?

Btw, I say we because any serious war will use the entire population, like Ukraine.

A European attack is prevented by critical voices from within Europe. If those voices are removed we will attack despite the threat of nuclear bombs.