Conflating education with academic rank.

Both are not the same. A detail politics likes to ignore because that enables noise-making.

Obama spoke out but we Europeans still believed in protection under the US nuclear umbrella.
It sure helped that Trump made the US expectation of more European investments clear.
But before anyone in Europe could actually improve their defenses it was only Trump that in his usual unpredictable way effectively withdrew from the written and silent agreements.
And then his lies...

At first I moderated you Troll but then reconsidered, you commenting on this topic while not knowing (or explaning) Inseat is worse than being a troll.

Indeed, the difference is the nuclear power of the Russians, if they would not have flexed that part of their threats Europe would long have defeated them.

I agree with much of what you just wrote.
At the end of WWII Europe was given safety guarantees called the US Nuclear Umbrella that did not require them to keep huge armies.
Although, during the Cold War most European nations did have significant armies but after the fall of the Soviet Union they quickly started to spent their money on more profitable subjects.
Then this criminal Putin came to power but heh, we have a NATO chapter 5 and like in WWII the US will come to our rescue, one of the reasons most countries did not invest in nuclear weapons.
But now along comes this unusual friend of Putin, Trump, and he wants to retreat to his side of the Atlantic.
Many but not all European nations realize they'll have to invest in and set up their own defense, just a pity not all see the need for rearmament and some like Viktor Orban look at Putin as a trading partner, Orban already gave up on an independent legal system and free press so the Russian system is not so different, right?

Indeed, the real conflicts about water are along rivers where dams limit the flow further downstream, examples are the Nile, the Eufrates, Tigres and Ganges/Bramaputra.

Lol :)

Or at least it's used as one.

And that does have it's advantages, believe it or not.

Any untrained office worker can open an Excel sheet and run the app that's built with it without any extra training or security and privilege stuff getting in the way. Office workers can build their own logic without having to shop around for some developer to take care of their problem and the ERP budget doesn't have to be touched. And it's even modern purely functional programming. ... That's how you eventually get Shadow IT that often becomes mission critical.

What SQL used to be in the 70ies Excel & VBA is today. Wether that's an improvement I couldn't really say für sure, but that's the way it is.

The internet is not the web, as you should know if you are still here in 2025. Videos with and without audio as well as music are all on the net. AI, including LLMs with the right interfaces, can watch humans, listen to humans, and perceive music just as well as we can. Stop and think before you post next time.

Spot on, the pay per use plan is ridiculous.
Btw, curious they are still calling themselves Defense contractors, Trump prefers War contractors :)

... and should've closed with "Would you like a more concise or more elaborate version of this article?". 8-)

Indeed, I have seen how most internet connections between the main line and the individual home in The Netherlands and Denmark are done with this pneumatic tool.
It's a lot easier and cheaper than digging.
In most of Europe overhead lines would never get approval.

Bullshit. Einstein didn't observe that nothing can move faster than light; he concluded this based on his thought experiment and then formulated his theory.

You mean it spouts a bunch of words it strings together, never saying anything intelligent, and having no idea what an intelligent person will make of it? It seems AI is more like you than you realize.

It's pretty evident that you have never had a discussion with Carl.