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If you don't want to be invaded by uncooperative and irrational autocracies, you have to build up as much military capacity as your unpredictable systemic rivals.

Every resource spent on weapons is a resource not spent on infrastructure / education / what have you. Military expenditure is at best a necessary evil; a better option is to have just enough weapons to stop an enemy's initial attack, and to invest the rest of your resources into building industrial capacity that can be used for military production if the need arises.

Remind me again, who had the military advantage by sheer numbers in the war on Ukraine?

Russia doesn't calculate how many weapons it needs to produce depending on how many Ukraine has. It's main threats are the other superpowers - the US and China. So of course in a conflict with Ukraine they will have a massive advantage.

In peacetime, countries do not make as many weapons as they can. They make as many weapons as they think they need, based on how many weapons they think their rivals have. So when you make a weapon, you also make a lot of other countries make weapons. And this weapon buildup increases the risk of war.

I live in a tropical area, so baths and showers are always in cold water. Hot water is for small children and the sick or elderly.

This is apparently a huge culture shock to people coming from the colder parts of my country.

Great success!

Italy tried to invade Greece during WW2. That's how the Italian army got its reputation for being I-tier.

From lower down in this post, his name is Aaron Bushnell.

There's already a Wikipedia article about the incident.

That sounds amazing!

Two steps forward, one step back, I guess?

It's a meme about one person asking about a modern-day event, and another replying by starting 500 years ago. No value judgement about the actual people is implied.

That's horrible. Poor people with older phones don't matter, I guess?

Nokia still produces feature phones, and newer models have LTE. But they are somewhat overpriced compared to the Chinese companies. They also make smartphones running KaiOS (much more efficient than Android, but cannot run Android apps) in the 50-100 USD range.

There are plenty of feature phones for <$50. Many even have basic cameras, a web browser and even some games.

You're right. I will add a correction.

Oh yes, I cut some details to keep the explanation short. It was absurd as it is.

A policeman in Florida tried to shoot a man after mistaking the sound of a falling acorn for a gunshot.

Sadly, Nokia doesn't support custom ROMs. But apart from that, they're great.

Ah, I see. That makes sense.

You should read about the Milgram Experiments. And the Stanford Prison Experiment.

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot be easily duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes into work every day and has a job to do.

• Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

That wasn't a military. It was a separatist group. My concern is that broadcasting your location significantly reduces the difficulty in shooting you down, to the point some armed group can do it.

Common LN behaviour