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xerox
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posted March 24, 2015 11:24 AM |
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lol @ Iran being a threat, obviously Russia is the most evil country
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Neraus
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posted March 24, 2015 02:46 PM |
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Oh good Lord, here we go again...
By the way, it's strange that my kinsmen see Afghanistan as the most dangerous country, if anything it would be India, considering the diplomatic incident we're involved in, or China, considering that we're slowly being conquered...
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Fauch
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posted March 24, 2015 03:23 PM |
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weird that belgium isn't the biggest threat to you, with all the laws voted there. 
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kipshasz
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posted March 24, 2015 03:24 PM |
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they forgot to add the russian flag to Lithuania. don't know how's it going at the other two Baltic states.
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Nitramar
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posted March 24, 2015 03:30 PM |
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Ebonheart said:
I am aswell. At least when it comes to Germany. Finland is in this case a little harder to read. But Sweden, meh, we have been spewing hateful propaganda towards USA since the days of Olof Palme, so no surprise there.
But isn't Sweden constantly trying to develop some degree of "military cooperation" with USA/NATO? Surely they wouldn't do that if they thought the US was the biggest security threat of all countries? I mean, it's so obvious they wouldn't cooperate on any training or operations with Russia.
Finland has had this "fear" of Russia since forever. If any other country should seem more threatening here, it would have to be because of some recent war activity with high publicity. So, I guess this survey must be from around one of those times the US was "bringing freedom" to the middle east. Right now it's nearly impossible to turn on the TV/radio without hearing some kind of discussion/argument about whether Russia is a likely threat to us or not.
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Sligneris
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posted March 24, 2015 03:37 PM |
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This means that Poland was the only country that predicted that something like this would happen, hm?
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Minion
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posted March 24, 2015 03:41 PM |
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Edited by Minion at 15:41, 24 Mar 2015.
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@Nitramar The question in the survey is who is the biggest threat to WORLD security, not to Finlands security...
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Neraus
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posted March 24, 2015 03:58 PM |
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Fauch said:
weird that belgium isn't the biggest threat to you, with all the laws voted there.
You know what, you're right!
Or maybe Germany, people over here don't like that Germans dictate how should we treat our economy.
Also, @Minion, every man's country is every man's world, threatening your country is like threatening the world, that's how we see things over here...
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Stevie
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posted March 24, 2015 04:35 PM |
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OhforfSake
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posted March 24, 2015 04:52 PM |
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What is "the world" exactly? All humans? All life? Some kind of weather equilibrium?
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Ebonheart
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posted March 24, 2015 05:57 PM |
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Nitramar said:
But isn't Sweden constantly trying to develop some degree of "military cooperation" with USA/NATO? Surely they wouldn't do that if they thought the US was the biggest security threat of all countries? I mean, it's so obvious they wouldn't cooperate on any training or operations with Russia.
Sweden does not want to join Nato, but still wants Nato to back us up, even though they have no reason to. In layman's terms, we want the protection but remain neutral. Which is a bit difficult.
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Nitramar
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posted March 24, 2015 06:23 PM |
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Edited by Nitramar at 18:27, 24 Mar 2015.
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Minion said:
@Nitramar The question in the survey is who is the biggest threat to WORLD security, not to Finlands security...
I know, but I'm quite sure that people's answers would be very much biased by the attitudes in their own country.
Ebonheart said:
Sweden does not want to join Nato, but still wants Nato to back us up, even though they have no reason to. In layman's terms, we want the protection but remain neutral. Which is a bit difficult.
Replace Sweden with Finland and NATO with Sweden and you get pretty much the situation that we have over here .
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Darkshadow
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posted March 24, 2015 07:29 PM |
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I'm pretty certain that in no war does anyone seriously expect Sweden of all places to be able to help us in any way
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Ebonheart
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posted March 24, 2015 08:03 PM |
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Darkshadow said:
I'm pretty certain that in no war does anyone seriously expect Sweden of all places to be able to help us in any way
No, but we have one advantage Nato dreams of having. The location. 
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Nitramar
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posted March 24, 2015 08:28 PM |
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Edited by Nitramar at 20:28, 24 Mar 2015.
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fred79
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posted March 25, 2015 01:06 PM |
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Stevie said:
Obviously, the biggest threat to the world is humanity. Obviously.
x2.
@ ohfor: they're the biggest threat to everything on the planet. the weather going nuts is an offshoot of their occupation here, and their carelessness. they're a threat to themselves, and every other living thing, as well. the idea of human society is the only thing that seems relatively safe, in comparison to what they do to everything else. and what happens to the things that threaten their ideas? the things that would threaten their ego's? take a look at each nation, and you have your answer to that.
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OhforfSake
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posted March 25, 2015 01:20 PM |
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Safe from what?
We're animals and like all other animals we adapt in our own way. The combined things we do influence the ecosystem in a way that may threaten the delicate balance of many species, but I doubt we influence it more than e.g. algae or bacteria. Organisms that many more animals depend on, but on the same time may have provided the extinction of many others, it's all a balance and not black and white.
Take antibiotics as an example, it has a positive effect because our body can restore our microbiomal balance, otherwise it'd be really dangerous.
Regarding the weather, yeah I won't be surprised if we've a major effect there too, but the weather itself does fluctuate with or without us and life won't perish because of it, it'll adapt. It's only the life as we know it that will change, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing, it happened before us too.
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fred79
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posted March 25, 2015 01:28 PM |
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OhforfSake said:
Regarding the weather, yeah I won't be surprised if we've a major effect there too, but the weather itself does fluctuate with or without us and life won't perish because of it, it'll adapt. It's just the life we know will change, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing, it happened before us too.
you mean like the polar ice caps melting, the ocean levels rising, and eventually drying up the earth to a near desert? my guess is, human beings won't be around then. they'll have died from starvation and overpopulation long before that. but IF they had adequate food, and continued to populate/spread/consume like they are now, this planet would eventually be a desert. like that "star wars" planet. i would hope i get reincarnated as a Sarlacc.
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artu
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posted March 25, 2015 02:15 PM |
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Edited by artu at 14:19, 25 Mar 2015.
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Our society as a whole should change and adapt its behavior regarding the environment, this has already started anyway and nobody with a little bit of common sense would object to that. But one must remember that when you talk about threats, you are talking about things that are VALUED being put in harms way and we are the only specie around here capable of assigning value to things, we are also the only specie which is capable of caring for other species. (Maybe with the exception of dogs and a few other high mammals but that's on a very primitive level.) Life on Earth came pretty close to extinction five times before us, nobody thought of it as a bad thing or some abomination. As dangerous as we are, we are also the only ones capable of that conceptualization and doing something about it.
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OhforfSake
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posted March 25, 2015 03:04 PM |
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artu said:
As dangerous as we are, we are also the only ones capable of that conceptualization and doing something about it.
Which I find pretty freaking awesome! 
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