You’re spaced out.

Yes, giving aggressors a reward for their behavior is a historically tried and tested strategy and will make the world a more peaceful place. /s

That’s why they meet there!

Plus the wife is a sober alcoholic (according to her own videos, she did drink a real beer since her husband joined the military), the while situation won’t make it easy for her to stay sober. Poor kids.

And I guess there aren’t that many countries that might be less suited to move to if you had alcohol problems in your past.

I highly recommend “Dicht & ergreifend” (band) for a first (shallow) deep dive - Wanda dog is a good start. The video to the song is available online.

Well, it’s no secret anymore that you guys actually speak German at home and have your funny Dutch language only for the tourists, so no wonder you like how it sounds!

https://www.der-postillon.com/2018/05/niederlaendisch.html

Just look at the military decisions Hitler made, that was luckily an incompetent guy thinking he’s smarter than everyone else. That rings a bell, doesn’t it?

In the long run, making less stupid decisions wouldn’t most likely have changed the outcome, but even more people would likely have died (and unfortunately the people executing the murder of the Jews weren’t as incompetent as their glorious leader).

This strategy might have only worked with the destruction of cities by nuclear weapons in Japan.

The resolve of the German population was not broken by the bombing of civilians. If they wouldn’t have hit the military production capabilities and invaded with ground forces the war would have dragged on much longer (and Germany lacked vital resources in their territory, unlike Russia).

So even if your suggestion to bomb the civilians wouldn’t be quite reprehensible by itself, it’s extremely unlikely that this would end the war on it’s own.

Just look at the numbers of soldiers Russia has lost, this didn’t seem to faze the support of the general population so far either (families and friends if those who died it who were severely injured).

While that article has some good, relatable points, Vance still managed to be elected, so there are a lot of people that won’t be swayed by this at all. Maybe some of the Democratic voters that didn’t vote last time will take this as an incentive to go vote.