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NATO can't protect Europe from Russia because the US has defected. The EU can't because UK is no longer a member. The UN can't because of Russia & US. We need a body with Europe + UK but not Russia + US, with existing admin infrastructure. What I'm saying is: arm the Eurovision Song Contest.

It's a (notionally) democratic body, it can render decisions from all its member states within a couple of ours, and it has already shown it learnt an important lesson from 20th century conflict: if you want to hold buck the Russians, send a bunch of terrifying Finns.

This would also allow Australia to do what it has historically done in post-WWII conflicts: send a contingent that's controversial just for being there but doesn't really determine the eventual outcome.

Hadn't seen that agit-prop before. What glories have we lost as a nation by turning our backs on extreme rhetoric and on propaganda cartoons that would make generations of Leek cry tears of envy...

The good news is that digger has like a 99% chance of surviving those stab wounds. Unless the argument is "we need conscription because ordinary people are absolutely terrible at killing people and clearly need to be trained."

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My "Conscript anti-conscriptionists so they are better at killing volunteers to stop conscription is a bit long for a tee-shirt" tee-shirt is answering a lot of questions raised by my etc etc