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Check the article 5 requirement. I don't see any "unless another NATO country" exceptions.

Probably moot as all the US has to do is increase presence and wait for an "or else" moment, so that they can rely with "or else what?"

I think they are much more enlightened these days. They are happy take brown & yellow if they have enough green.

Don't believe this at all... Still up-dooted

Then you need to compare salary to something like CPI. What can the money buy?

Things were different in the periphral nations, than in the center. Those who read your comments with heritage from the peripheral will understand you, and the others will not.

I understood your statement, but the underlying connotation was "elections are bad". Elections can be fair. Unfair elections can be restored, but not easily.

It wasn't even a final peace state, so it could easily have been pushed sideways in the future, and clearly the Americans wanted the win so badly that they would have let anything happen at the finish line.

Eliminating elections would not harm dictators. Elections, like all democratic institutions need to be maintained and supported to maintain a democracy.

He had 6000 feet?

I commented before that I didn't think that Canadian and have it in them to fight an insurgency, but I have been impressed since then with the Canadian civil and political response since them (Carney more than Ford.) Now I realize that the US has never had to face an insurgency at there border, of ppl who they couldn't possible recognize. When you hear stories of Ukrainians who speak Russian being very successful as insurgents gives a lot of suggestion of how Canadians could make it really annoying for the U.S. government. Then think of how the border couldn't all be guarded.

I hear it talked about plenty.

There are some things that I will only buy through Chinese retailers, to cut out middlemen. There are somethings that I would never buy from a Chinese retailer.