Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country, Part II

[Labster]

Let me do a quick summary of the last month in in European defence diplomacy:

-- Year 10 of a 3 year war rolled around
-- Trump opened his talk hole and said that as President he wouldn't defend NATO countries who didn't "pay up", and also that he'd encourage Russia to attack "delinquent" countries
-- Naturally this lit a fire under everyone's ass.
-- John Bolton, aging neocon idol and "blow up 10 floors of the UN building" guy, said that Trump definitely wants to leave NATO, and they were only barely able to talk him out of it a few years back
-- So Trump is like: let's give up our global hegemony to extort more money?  I mean, there's stupid and there's dangerously stupid.
-- France (Macron anyway) has been talking about increasing defence spending for Europe
-- Hungary, who swore they wouldn't be last to approve Sweden, was the last country to approve Sweden's entry into NATO
-- Sweden arrives fashionably late, looks around, wondering if the party is already over
-- US Congress continue to be incapable
-- Yes, that's where the sentence was supposed to end
-- Macron mentions that nothing is off the table in supporting Ukraine, including sending troops to Ukraine
-- Olaf Scholz says that French and British soldiers are already fighting in Ukraine because how else could they operate the missiles?  In reality though, Ukrainians can be trained on big machines
-- Russia issues this week's nuclear threat in response
-- USA says no, we're not sending any troops to Ukraine, obviously!
-- Lithuania and Estonia governments start saying that it would be a good idea to send troops to help Ukraine
-- Canada's Defence Minister says he wants to send "noncombat" troops to Ukraine
-- Major Conscriptovich wins medal for conquest of Avdiivka, having been field promoted from Private Conscriptovich after everyone else around him died in the assault

TL;DR: things make no damn sense these days