Ukraine invasion

[Umbran]

Doesn't article 5 apply to official candidates?

I don't think Article 5 applies until they are actually invited and the invitation accepted.

However, my understanding (and someone with more international law experience can correct me if I am wrong) is that all the time consuming processes could, in theory, be bypassed if the NATO Council unanimously approves it. The summits that established the processes do not supersede the treaty as a whole - it isn't that they cannot admit anyone without the process. They just generally will not.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Not to mention the chances of an accident. You don't get fewer car accidents by putting more cars on the road. Looking at the history of near disasters with nukes in the past, more nukes is a very bad idea.

The thing about nukes is that they require a fair bit of technical and industrial capacity to prepare and maintain

 

[GreyLord]

Musical interlude. Kremlin has bling.

He's a little short for an Imperial...seems more like one of the Hutt's members...

Maybe someone manipulating things for the Hutts like Sarlac Crumb

 

[Eltab]

Complete this sentence.

Russian Flagship go.........

Go back to base. Go directly back to base. Do not pass GO; do not collect any more foreign-owned explosive ordinance.

(Yes I have heard the reports (not yet confirmed) that Moskva sank, but the pun on a Monopoly board was too good to pass up.)

 

[reelo]

New scale-model being released...

 

[Zardnaar]

AFAIK it's still floating not sure if it's a missile strike or explosion onboard.

Also not sure what's more embarrassing. New Ukrainian missile vs incompetence on a Soviet relic.

 

[Nikosandros]

AFAIK it's still floating not sure if it's a missile strike or explosion onboard.

Also not sure what's more embarrassing. New Ukrainian missile vs incompetence on a Soviet relic.

Russia has declared that the ship has sunk. I agree with the rest of the post. An uncontrolled fire detonating ammunition would be worse than being hit by Ukrainian anti-ship missiles.

 

[Eltab]

New scale-model being released...

As it happens, I bought and built that original model. Never got around to painting it, though.

The as-constructed ship had helicopter facilities on the back half of the ship, and fewer missile launchers up front. Video of the modernized ship left me wondering if it was really the same one.

 

[Nikosandros]

New scale-model being released...

I kept trying to build this model, but today I finally gave up. I realized that I had succumbed to the sunk cost fallacy.

 

[MGibster]

New scale-model being released...

That looks just like my Titanic model.