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Is your suggestion that because Turkey has a large army, countries like the Netherlands need to increase their military capacity? Or reduce it? Or neither/oth

Is your suggestion that because Turkey has a large army, countries like the Netherlands need to increase their military capacity? Or reduce it? Or neither/other?

baybal2 5y ago
I suggest NATO launch war, retake Ukraine, and deprive Russia of 60% of its military for almost no cost. This will be followed by Putin having to spend the next 40% of its military on keeping order within Russia. If he will use nukes, he will obviously not be able to do so (NATO nuclear retaliation will destroy at least 50% of remaining Russian military.) Even if Putin will stay in power, sending military to police innumerable Russian cities, and towns will take him off the list of potential threats for next decade at least. Use the time won to remilitarise the West.
- ceejayoz 5y ago
  > This will be followed by Putin having to spend the next 40% of its military on keeping order within Russia. If he will use nukes, he will obviously not be able to do so. Initiating a nuclear launch is not a high-manpower operation.
- dang 5y ago
  Ok, that's enough. After years of trying to explain to you why posting like this is unacceptable on HN, I think we have to ban this account again for now. Obviously emotions and tensions are super high right now, but (a) that's a reason not to post like this, and (b) this has been a problem for a long time. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: here's what I mean - and this doesn't include the large number of emails: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30470909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30470909 (Feb 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621256 (Dec 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26896780 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26896780 (April 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892834 (April 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630216 (March 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630202 (March 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843844 (Jan 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20072350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20072350 (June 2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18802969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18802969 (Jan 2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15658648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15658648 (Nov 2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14786407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14786407 (July 2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13511792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13511792 (Jan 2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13464959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13464959 (Jan 2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13446598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13446598 (Jan 2017)
  - throwawayfp2a 5y ago

Is your suggestion that because Turkey has a large army, countries like the Netherlands need to increase their military capacity? Or reduce it? Or neither/other?

baybal2 5y ago

I suggest NATO launch war, retake Ukraine, and deprive Russia of 60% of its military for almost no cost. This will be followed by Putin having to spend the next 40% of its military on keeping order within Russia. If he will use nukes, he will obviously not be able to do so (NATO nuclear retaliation will destroy at least 50% of remaining Russian military.) Even if Putin will stay in power, sending military to police innumerable Russian cities, and towns will take him off the list of potential threats for next decade at least. Use the time won to remilitarise the West.

ceejayoz 5y ago
> This will be followed by Putin having to spend the next 40% of its military on keeping order within Russia. If he will use nukes, he will obviously not be able to do so. Initiating a nuclear launch is not a high-manpower operation.
dang 5y ago
Ok, that's enough. After years of trying to explain to you why posting like this is unacceptable on HN, I think we have to ban this account again for now. Obviously emotions and tensions are super high right now, but (a) that's a reason not to post like this, and (b) this has been a problem for a long time. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: here's what I mean - and this doesn't include the large number of emails: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30470909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30470909 (Feb 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621256 (Dec 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26896780 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26896780 (April 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892834 (April 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630216 (March 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630202 (March 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843844 (Jan 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20072350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20072350 (June 2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18802969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18802969 (Jan 2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15658648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15658648 (Nov 2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14786407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14786407 (July 2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13511792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13511792 (Jan 2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13464959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13464959 (Jan 2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13446598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13446598 (Jan 2017)
- throwawayfp2a 5y ago