As a non US citizen/resident, I have to ask: does the US Congress still exist?

If it's done by an official branch of a country's armed forces, it would normally be referred as war, rather than piracy or privateering.

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There are 2 lines of arguments for the "do nothing" policies that I find exhausting: 1) Some inept form of cost/benefit analysis, often reduced to just cost analysis 2) A perverted variation of the serenity prayer, in which nobody should change anything, because nothing is in our control.

And yes, there absolutely were people like this when there were calls to clean drinking water, develop safety standards for cars, remove asbestos, ban smoking, and every other public health measure ever.

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The alumni of the Hogwash Institute of Reasonable People will always recognize each other.

The fundamental problem in common European defence is that Russia simply isn't an existential threat to voters west of river Oder.

Yes, Russia grabbing its old imperial sphere of influence the Kremlin so desires would probably be bad for the rest of Europe in many ways.

But in a diffuse way.

We also already see less sophisticated, but high impact threats, like sabotage, being effected across Europe.

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Yep, from the outside it looks like EBM is set up so that it's not the evidence that matters, it's the people who tally the evidence.