I like that there’s genuine conversations here, much like this one.

I completely agree with this, and especially with comment sections. In reddit, even before the bots took over, every discussion was overrun really quickly, with a huge mass of people. If you failed to take part, in like an hour after posting, it did not matter if you commented, as it was either buried, or nobody else would comment as the post tanked. So it was just pointless to even write comments.

Here, I can still jump into comment sections, and manage to have a conversation, even if the post was made days ago.

the Poles and Finns might bilaterally decide this is full scale war, that the war is not limited to Ukraine.

If they attack us, Baltics, or Poland, it is an escalation to a full scale war. No way any of us border countries would not immediately get NATO involved, as that is the reason for any of us to have joined it. Which then would get all of us border countries involved, at least (and involving us finns, would then involve the other Nordics as well), even if NATO would suddenly crumble immediately. Alone we would all be just easier targets, one by one, and none, who knows what it means to be attacked by Russia, wants that.