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https://twitter.com/IImpartialTruth/status/1823868412344590556The Soviet regime did perpetrate horrible crimes against the Orthodox church in Russia, but they did this because the church was a pillar of the parochial peasant civilization which they wanted to shatter, not because Stalin had a secret blood vendetta against Christians. Sorry.
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1717072618053107761The problem is that if someone thinks you're bluffing and they call you on it, the entire system of deterrence falls apart unless you respond. That's been the basis of America's limited ("proportional") actions in the Middle East over the years.
https://twitter.com/d_foubert/status/1674363432886235136We can come at this from a few different angles, but Poland's population is a good starting point. If Poland is serious about maintaining a ~1,500 tank army, the manpower requirements are going to be on the order of 5-600,000 men.