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and/or they want field data from the real world conditions they're being used in.

We were talking about Europe so I apparently wasn't specific enough. Most countries in NATO let any capacity they had for large scale land wars wither after the cold war ended since they only saw conflict in small "police actions" in far away lands as being in their future. Things like Kosovo. And, to be fair, even the Russians (Putin aside) were confident that Europe was past large land wars too.

I won't lie, the city has had problems but people's online rants about it are always overblown and always from people who don't live or visit there.

the big secret is that Democrats and Republicans are both on the political right and the mainstream media is owned by billionaires.

Some of us don't "US bad, Russia good". We look at each individual scenario, analyze it, and come to conclusions.

The slow decent into fascism helps them, not the rest of us.

I mean, more than half. Almost everyone on the Left thinks Democrats share blame with Republicans even if Republicans are MORE to blame.

Researchers came up with a warning symbol for this exact scenario

"In the aftermath of repeated incidents where the public was exposed to radiation from orphan sources, a common factor reappeared: individuals who encountered the source were unfamiliar with the trefoil radiation warning symbol, and were in some cases not familiar with the concept of radiation. During a study in the early 2000s, it was found that only 6% of those surveyed in India, Brazil and Kenya could correctly identify the meaning of the trefoil symbol."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_21482

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

I don't see a scenario where our country can heal from this mess unless Stephen Miller faces his own Nuremberg trial

Following Orders is deeply engrained in the military and obedience to authority is a hallmark of right-winger thought (they make up the bulk of the miliary). Unless it's extremely heinous like "fire on this old folks home" most soldiers will probably go along with murder.

Technically the Freikorps would be more akin to groups like the Proudboys or Oathkeeprs. The analogy for ICE/Homeland Security agents/Federalized National Guard would be Gestapo.