If you believe NATO is simply a puppet of the US, why didn’t Turkey, France or Germany participate in the war in Iraq? Why didn’t they obey their “emperor’s” orders?

I think you have a problem conflating a voluntary defensive organization with the actions of some of its members.

The US is an evil, imperialist power. So is Russia. For smaller countries bordering Russia, the only protection they have from Russian aggression is NATO.

Ukraine decided to try to join the EU. They even agreed not to join NATO. Russia decided that Ukraine was their imperial property and wanted to deny it self determination so started a war that has caused over a million casualties.

Any attempted justification of that is a justification of fascism and imperialism. And there’s only one thing to do with fascists…

Interesting, thanks for the source.

Do they? Defenders traditionally only need 1/3rd the manpower of the attacker.

I train dogs.

Shock collars are abuse.

Japanese people can be just as sarcastic as English speakers. It flies over your head unless you’re actually good at the language. Same as English.