Not saying he wouldn't, but isn't Marshal Law part of the insurrection act? In any case, a foreign attack on a nation shouldn't be justification enough for an action of internal oppression.
Again, I'm talking about a rational administration, here, not an autocratic dictatorship.
Trump can raise all the executive orders he wants. He just doesn't have jurisdiction on how states run their elections.
This doesn't mean he can't cause trouble, though. For instance, maybe he can just order the USPS to not deliver ballot mail. Or worse, open it an substitute the ballot inside to one that's much more favourable to him.
Obviously, if he does that the US can kiss goodbye to being a representative democracy.
Even if this is true, and I make no comment on that, you may very well be correct. Without further laws/treaties bidding ≠ selecting. I assume one of the criteria is the company's fitness.
The train operators should recognise that they are in a bit of a monopsony, here.
Looking at the requested penalty makes me wonder why they didn't request one trillion. I mean if you are being blatant about your ulterior motive to scare off further investigation into your unethical practices.
Anyway they now got the stink on them. Any railway operator dealing with them will have no one but themselves to blame going forward.
I think the tariff situation is more subtle than you are letting on. Basically, Trump is now on the clock were previously he wasn't. He will now be forced to go to congress to ratify this increase.
He can think anything he damned want. Just so long as it doesn't go any further. Although, I'd like to see him attempt to declare war on Norway because of this... And their delicious sovereign wealth fund.
While we may feel smug in our federated social media, I wonder how far those protections even go. I guess it really depends where our instance is, and who they host with.
You've clearly not been paying attention. It's trump's party, now. Any serious descenting opinions have been routed out such as Liz Cheney. And it's not just politicians. What's left are the cowed and the sycophant. Sure, there has been descent in the ranks such as releasing the Epstein files but when asked about their justification it's all fallen short of overt criticism of Trump. Nothing of the sort that could feasibility depose him. And the Democrats cravenly refuse to broach the subject, thinking that Trump is now electoral poison. A mistake they continue to make.
I see an interesting parallel to the nationalisation of UK coal back in the day. Basically, the collieries prior to nationalisation were critically mismanaged. So, the government bought them off the private hands. However, the valuation was too high for an outright purchase, so the Government bought the infrastructure in installments. This meant that as an award to the previous owners for severe mismanagement they got regular income without having to do anything to get it.
I think the biggest issue they had was with consistency of frame rate.
Maybe the graphic drivers have matured more for the RTX 30 than the later versions.
Are you using the proprietary drivers, or the open source ones?
I'm not just factoring in Russia, here. If it was just Russia here you'd have a point. Russia has allies. The Trump Whitehouse and it seems that China is soft on Russia too. If push comes to shove, I really can't guarantee that either of them would fall in line behind the EU. Add to that the authoritarian Narendra Modi's India I really don't think the EU would stand a chance...
Although, on the flip side, the EU may have allies themselves in Australia and Canada, and perhaps the UK plus the Scandinavian countries. But, even then...
I guess it also comes down to how much the different factions want the fight.
Do you honestly think the EU can stand alone against the super powers? With what? A lot of European munitions come from one of them. Sure, maybe the EU could throw all it's chips in to the war effort and may squeak out a victory but they would have to dedicate around 80% of their income to it. We're talking taking a World War 3 stance of preparedness. And be willing to go bankrupt in the process.
If that happens the only result is Russia comes in an sells the EU for parts.
Given that wisdom and worldliness are opposite to ignorance, not necessarily intelligence I don't think the OP is stating that the under/unprivileged people would be smarter by dint of their oppression.
However, maintaining bloody minded ignorance is not only hard work, but stupid. This is why tremendous effort is applied to keeping the ignorant in a culture that props up their ignorance.
I think you're both right as your stated opinions views are not diametrically opposed. I suspect the original commenter was not commenting to an utopian dream of a just peace, here. Their comment seems to be addressing realpolitik. The super power in the region and the current hegemonic super power in the world are aligned.. and so is the new world super power, China when it comes to it. With that background, both Europe and Ukraine will loose and will have to accept what's given to them.
Essentially it allows California to gerrymander by removing the independent redistricting body. The stated reason is to nullify Texas' own partisan redistricting. I believe that there is a clause to that effect. Sort of like if you do this, we'll reciprocate.
This recent rise may also be due to the current US administration forgetting to stockpile petroleum before going to war.