It’s all done on a case-by-case basis. Joining NATO isn’t like Civ’s “your armies can travel in my territories” negotiation perk that applies to all of NATO. It needs to be a bilateral agreement. NATO is a mutual defense alliance, but it is absolutely not intended to undermine any member’s sovereignty.
I didn’t realize enormously usurious loans were basically a whole institution in Russia, but hearing about it now, I’m 0% surprised that it is, given how Russia works these days.
It might even be an intentional “accident”. Putin would have zero qualms about creating an environmental catastrophe if it plays into his geopolitical calculus.
Yes, and it is the correct number of zeros to use. I find it helps to put things into scope. “Trillion” is an abstract magnitude to most people. Writing it out numerically makes it clear how absolutely enormous the number is.