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The “surprise” is because he’s wanted, and is being actively hunted by the Spanish police.

An officer even got arrested for helping him escape, per the article.

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“Progressive Catholic” talk about an oxymoron, emphasis on the moron…

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At this point “like Baldur’s Gate 3” will become the new “Dark Souls of”

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I hope I remember this moment in [10-50 years] when this song becomes a reality.

Future me: you expected this eventuality would come in your lifetime, but you’re still weirded out at the thought. Sounds too sci-fi to ever be considered normal.

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Estonians are just built different

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just thinking logistically, I imagine that happened a lot. Anyway I expect a decent number of his calls were made by aides and he just took the phone after they got through to the right person.

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Well generally everyone on joint bases like that reports to the base commander. There’s always a clear chain of command that transcends nations when it comes to NATO operations.

Also, I expect that most small detachments like that are just technical experts, not just straight infantry or anything lol

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We laugh but this is not uncommon. I remember reading manpower contributions to the war in Afghanistan back in ‘17 and there were two Estonians and four Icelanders on the list. Hilarious when put next to the 10s of thousands of Americans.

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Always a hoot when you click through Windows 11 settings and get taken to menus from 8, 7, I think there’s still a few vista menus hidden in there.

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