Depend on the agreement between the Overlord and the vassal.

An overlord can agree to join the vassal in all war, in offensive war only, in defensive war only, or none at all.

Likewise, an overlord can demand the same from the vassal, to join in all war the Overlord participate in, or only in either offensive or defensive war, or none at all.

You can see on the war demand page if declaring war on an empire would drag someone else into the war on their side or not.

Hell, they even destroyed more Russian artillery than ever build since WWII.

Nukes have such unique detonation characteristic that it's quite hard to hide, especially since we have tons of eyes on the whole area for decades. While I would not be surprise if this is real, I'd want more concrete evident first that it's actually a nuke and not simply salt the ground with U-235 (for some reasons).

Well...what do you expected would happened when the defending side effectively announced that a huge chunk of the reserve that would have been reinforcing the frontline suddenly weren't there anymore.

Someone took "thesis defense" a bit too far.

Good? Not sure. Completely justified in their counteroffensive against Super Earth? Absolutely.

Where have I heard that before....

Every times I tried to give the British some benefit of the doubt, thinking maybe my opinion of them has been too harsh in the past, something like this always happened.

Loss will definitely be high in such scenario. Bombarding a city to rubles rarely work to the advantage of the invader. It didn't work in German favor during Battle of Stalingrad. It didn't work in British's favor during Battle of Caen. I doubt it would work in IDF favor here, especially against people who have a lot of explosives and nothing to lose.

But yeah, it's going to be ugly, especially consider how little IDF care about collateral damage.

“Commands are sent via WhatsApp groups.”

I want to see how my former OPSEC instructor would react to this information.

To be fair, they did heard of Ukraine before 2022. They're a lot of yelling and screaming back in 2014-2015 after Crimea succeeded from Ukraine, which lots of American loss their shit because you shouldn't have the self-determination that doesn't align with Westerner's agenda, apparently.

...again?