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[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 6 points 2 weeks ago

They can threaten all they want publicly, they won't do it. Then they have no leverage and their only other alternative is to divert all their spending into military defense and the Europeans way of life ends. The Russian threat isn't as big as the defense companies are claiming to manufacture consent for a profitable war.