If you're referring to the Democracy Index, India is upper mid-level as a "flawed democracy". Their score is about the same as Slovakia, and better than Croatia.

Germany's healthcare system doesn't have a long term problem with funding. From DW:

>Germany's understaffed and over-bureaucratic hospital system, where doctors and patients have for many years complained of too many financial incentives to "over-treat" patients, has resulted in long hospital stays, unnecessary operations and unnecessary antibiotic treatments, among other things.

Aside from hiring more staff, cutting down on bureaucracy and unnecessary treatment would save money. This is of course leaving aside that €5 billion per year on Ukraine is a drop in Germany's federal budget and directly increases Germany's security.

I'm sure a Russian independent journalist talking to an independent outlet is quite aware of the country she lives in and the risks she is taking.

Kind of hard to sanction a group that no longer exists.

Be me

Make music all my life

Be jealous of Jewish composers and my Jewish patron

Write "Jewishness in Music" to "explain to ourselves the involuntary repellence possessed for us by the nature and personality of the Jews"

Double down on anti-Semitic populism

Start writing a work on "the noblest white race" "marching towards its downfall" with intermarriage with "the races it conquers"

Die

Be embraced by Nazis for my views

Get people to apologize for me and claim that my written views are fake and made up

>The US blowing up Nordstream II

This is not reflected by an objective analysis of how the attack was performed.

>“We’re directing our demand for peace toward Russia, because they have the opportunity to end the war,” Pykälä said.

Sounds like they're aware of this, but still wanted to voice their disapproval of Russia.

We need to send more, but even 4 tanks (for a total of 8 pledged by Canada) is an extra tank platoon. We're some way away from refurbishing and sending 50 tanks as suggested by a retired Canadian general recently [e: source], but 8 is 10% of our Leo 2 MBT force.

>Fighter jets are nearly useless in Ukraine for both sides. Anti-air defenses are so strong that only veteran SEAD pilots in 5th gen fighter jets would be useful

Objectively incorrect

Two years to train on an F-16 including 1 year of Undergraduate Pilot Training in trainer jets, at least in the USAF. Safe to say that Ukrainian veteran pilots won't need UPT.

The airspace in Ukraine is contested at the moment, but giving Ukraine jets with solid air to air capability will make it even more difficult for Russian aircraft to operate and will help with shooting down cruise missiles.

Oh look, a surprise coup! How did the intelligence services not predict this? Guess Erdogan will have to stay in power for the good of the nation.

I suspect security concerns with our ties with China are partly behind our exclusion, although I'm not sure nuclear powered submarines would be the best choice for Canada in any case. The UK gets a pass for their Russian oligarch ties because that's just money and government influence.

You think India's conflict with China is comparable to US/UK border disputes? Isn't a common Indian complaint that people don't take India's border skirmishes seriously enough?

Seems like this

>Canadian political leadership have openly stated they have no desire to join AUKUS, even though their military leadership is screaming for it.

Is directly opposed by this

>US will not allow Canada to share nuclear submarine designs until it accepts the NW Passage as an international strait, same as Malacca or Hormuz

The Straits of Hormuz and Malacca are of course irrelevant here, since the shortest (desired) routes of the Northwest Passage take it through exclusively Canadian waters rather than waters shared by two nations. Comparisons to the Bosphorus and the Dardennelles straits are more appropriate.

The Northwest Passage will be an international passage in the same way that the Bosphorus and Dardennelles straits are.

Yes, shame on those powerful activists and NGOs bullying the small, startup government of the CCP.

hold up

It's not confirmed that the Abrams will be newly-built hulls, although that may be the easiest solution. We know that conversion is possible because the US government signed a contract with GDLS to remove and replace armor on US tanks for Poland.

As /u/AllomancersAnonymous alluded to, there are export variants in service with Egypt and Saudi Arabia, but it's unknown whether the US will be able to buy tanks back from them.

I think it's undecided at the moment, since it may indeed be easier to send new, export-ready tanks than to convert domestic ones or find willing foreign suppliers, but production lines in the US are already full.

Nuclear escalation is far from inevitable, despite what Russian propagandists may say about sinking the UK under a radioactive tsunami. Russia knows that China and India won't support any nuclear use in Ukraine, and NATO is certainly not going to take in a non-member state under NATO's nuclear umbrella.

Yes, they're thinking to buy the tanks they're leasing from Germany and send them to Ukraine, with the logic that they will best fulfill their purpose of deterring Russia by serving in the war. I think they haven't yet decided to do this.

Those will be very important, but will take longer to transfer since they need to be stripped of advanced armour and systems (or export versions sourced from Egypt or Saudi Arabia).

Assuming that PiS wants to deliver any significant number of modern tanks. They haven't said anything about their application since Germany announced the commitment of German Leopards.

How long until nations like Costa Rica shut their borders to retirees who didn't pay into their healthcare system? Or is private healthcare also affordable there?