#Military Alliances

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United States Allies Designation

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A military alliance is a strategic pact formed between two or more nations with the primary aim of mutual defense and security. These alliances often involve a commitment to support each other in times of conflict, with the collective strength of the member states serving as a deterrent to potential adversaries.

[immaculatasknight]

You are known by your friends

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The Defender's Chronicle

North Korea sending troops to Ukraine as WWIII approaches By Ethan Huff // Jun 28, 2024 In what media reports are describing as the makings of a critical escalation in the ongoing conflict, North Korea is reportedly sending military units to Ukraine as soon as next month to help support Russian forces. For the first time in 24 years, Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a visit to North Korea…

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Forget NATO, Do Your Own Thing. Alliances Make The World Unsafe | Alexander Mercouris from the Duran

Welcome to the last part of the interview with Alexander Mercouris ( @AlexMercouris ) from  @TheDuran , where we talk about the future of neutrality and how important it is not only to have intermediaries but a global system build on states that pursue their own interest instead of succumbing to the will of a megalomaniac hegemon. The US has become what the USSR used to be: an ideologically charged block that breaks all norms and respects nothing.

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gay fish nation how we feelin tonight

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as if we don't semi-regularly bring up the horror that is Lysa and Jon's marriage. It's one of the main reasons why Lysa Is The Way She Is. it's the foil to Cat and Ned's happy marriage, as it really is sheer luck if a woman ends with a "good" marriage. The whole situation that leads up to the marriage literally haunts Hoster on his death bed. Girl.

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The alliance right before the port battle

Armin: Alright, let’s see if we can convince Floch that we’re still on his side. Connie and I will—

Reiner: Wait, Floch? As in Floch Forster?

Armin: Yes

Reiner: He’s the leader of the Yeagerists and Eren’s right-hand man?

Armin: …Yes

Reiner: Floch? That conceited kid from training who-

Jean: Drop it, Reiner.

Reiner: I realize you were also conceited, Jean, but this isn’t a condemnation of you or anything. Plus you actually have the skills and looks to back it up.

Jean: What? My looks? That’s… not what this is about… *blushes*

Reiner: Sorry for interrupting, Armin. Continue.

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from a cell and into the battlefield, because they need you. because they own you.

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Current political division of Europe

Most influential alliances and stances of European countries as of early October 2023.

by geomapped

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NATO MILITARY POWER | 2024 | Not Alone

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A genocide club

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The Khans - My Introspective

I don't like the Military and I don't support a lot of the actions the NCR does to the Mojave in New Vegas but in terms of the Khans I feel like the fandom infantilizes or diminishes the fact that they are or at least one of the most violent raider groups in the Mojave.

What happened at Bitter Springs was a tragedy, innocent lives were lost and the fact that the NCR swept it under the rug and continued to hunt down Khans that are truly trying to back down and resettle is horrendous, but there is a history to the NCR's aggression towards them.

The Khans first appear in Fallout 1, the main faction of raiders in the game besides the mentioned Vipers (who don't actually appear if I remember correctly). They came from Vault 15 along with the members that would form rival groups; The Vipers, The Jackals, and Shady Sands. They are a very large and foreboding raiding party, known for burning towns and encampments they attack and taking survivors as their slaves or slaves to sell. They are a big reason why the Jackals and Vipers are actually so small in New Vegas, they wiped them out.

Their main targets where Shady Sands and Junker town, the former of the two would be what became The New California Republic. This explains a big part of their animosity towards the Khans, only furthered by the fact the Khans kidnapped Tandi as a young girl, the girl that would go to offically found the NCR out of Shady Sands. When the dweller saved her and killed much of the Khans, this allowed the NCR to develop into what it currently is as they no longer needed to focus on fighting off constant raids.

When the Khans became the New Khans in Fallout 2, they barely resembled the Khans as they were led by Darion, Garl Death-Hand's son (former leader of the Khans). They were smaller and refortified vault 15, still planning to take down the NCR (at this time nowhere near as imperialist as they are in FNV) as mostly a revenge/power ploy. They manipulate The Squat, a group of y'know squatters, that lived in the upper levels, promising and lying about repairing the vault and offering them ransacked caravan resources if they kept the NCR away. Being their only life line The Squat had no choice. Still the chosen one got rid of them and they left New California for the untapped Mojave.

The Great Khans, the most current iteration, continued in the path as the original Khans, regrouping and gaining information from the Followers who hoped they'd use their new medical knowledge to heal themselves. They gained more members and a substantial part of Vegas territory before they were run out by the three families. They were pushed to Bitter Springs where they first and foremost continued to pick off and attack NCR settlements, most of which consisted of caravans, towns, and camps as they saw them as easy like in their old days. It was the killing of four influential Republic members (non-military) that brought on Bitter Springs.

Bitter Springs was the result of years of hatred and animosity and likely the goal to send a final message to the Khans. It does not excuse the fact that innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered with few survivors. It does not excuse the fact that the NCR has yet to make amends for this and continues to try and persecute the Khans even in moments of surrender.

This post is not to defend what happened but to give a quick rundown of the Khan's history and their history with the NCR. It's to remind people that the NCR is not just their military power but an actual group/settlement of people that were also attacked indiscriminately by the Khans. It's to point out that the Khans were not a band of indigenous people (no matter the comparisons) driven from their homes but raiders who fed into the brutal cultures of the west coast wasteland and were in turn treated to the same things.

My frustration comes from the fact that FNV has so many comparisons to indigenous struggles but the groups it chooses are not comparable at all. Their oppression hinges on not being familiar with their past, which explains why they have the reputation they do in canon. The "tribes" are often not even groups of minorities or have goals/desires out of acquisitions of power and I feel like it is important to both acknowledge that this is bad indigenous rep because it is not supposed to be. It is supposed to be a comparison of the in-game groups and how they all do the same things and justify it in their own fucked up ways, some better at it than others.

FNV of all the Fallout games (in light of it being heavily Western based) distastefully uses indigenous imagery and theming for groups that are sad mimicries of American indigenous cultures at best and outright offensive at worst.

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ok so apparently elves can join the tevinter military provided they aren't slaves or members of the liberati (former slaves) ???? so that opens up the possibility of rook at least being adopted by an elven family. not sure about dwarves and qunari i cant find too much on that but for elf!mercars it seems possible that they wont have to haave a default human family