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Congress has the power to declare war. They do not have any authority to order, or prohibit, the use of military force outside of the US's borders. The President is Commander-In-Chief and has, independent of Congress or the Courts, a duty to protect and defend the US against foreign enemies...

It's arguably unconstitutional in the case of the US. The President is Commander-in-Chief of the US military and is obligated to defend the US against all enemies foreign and domestic. If the President determines that some military action is necessary to the defense of the US then he has the...

Ukraine isn't getting into NATO. People might publicly pretend but one of two things ends up true. 1) Russia is defeated so badly in Ukraine that they cease to have a functional military (outside of, perhaps, their nuclear forces). In which case NATO is basically irrelevant as the enemy is...

Because demilitarizing gear involves things like disassembling them to remove the explosives and then safely disposing of the explosives. And you can only store weapons for so long before the error rate becomes unacceptable. Electronics go bad, explosives degrade, etc. Or you take everything...

If you want to talk about Russia attacking the US then make another thread for that. This is about Russia-Ukraine and until and unless that conflict actually involves the real (or at least likely) exchange of bullets by Russia and the US then US-Russia military conflict does not belong in this...

It was epic trolling, and how much tricking was going on vs. backstabbing the producer is apparently an open question. Like the government confirmation of the names was from an NTSB intern reached outside of normal channels. What probably happened is someone came up with the names, got...

Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that the war has fucked over European access to critical commodities and as a consequence of that is seeing the hollowing out of the European industrial base as it relocates out of Europe and it won't be coming back in future.

The war has hollowed out the German industrial base and it isn't coming back. The overall economic damage, both short and long term, to Europe from this war is massive.

Actually somewhat doubtful. Germany really doesn't buy new tanks and hasn't for a while. The next generation is also nominally supposed to be a contract around ~2030. So yes, the tooling still exists but it is most likely mothballed. You need to get it up and running, establish the logistics...

This thread exists to discuss the political side of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. If you want to talk about the more directly military aspects then you want this thread. Because people are being people (i.e. annoying cunts whose actions require me to do things and thus piss me off), this...