Maybe the importance of having one man in charge is overvalued.

Why?

Standard Newsweek bullshit, Ukrainian military victories are always just justifications for some unspecified “escalation” by Russia.

At least it is in all other Russian propaganda.

I think the comment you were answering is sarcastic.

The US generally holds that only foreign individuals and organisations can be terrorists. So if Luigi can be charged with terrorism, so can the KKK.

And what do you pay that military with? Most of that expenditure is wages.

Having a huge and advanced military and getting your economy off a cliff can go one of two ways. Either Germany 1939 or Russia 1991.

While I’m sure there is no love lost towards healthcare execs from even the police, an uptick of “terrorism” could also be used as an excuse to give even more power to the police as well.

If he used violence against noncombatants.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were terror attacks though.

You’re either on the side of freedom or democracy or you’re not. That simple.

The problem is that the EU does this submissive bit because we also support the petrodollar. You’re buying the EU economy and markets with those weapons.

Imagine if we gave all of that back and aligned with China instead. It would instantly reduce the US to a regional power - fighting with runaway inflation - economically speaking. Not that I think that would be good for the EU either.

The status of the US as a superpower is founded on its alliances.

It is, but not this big yet.

This is bigger than Gaza, not like the IDF is not trying to catch up.

In the US economy, they were lying the other way around, companies wanted to force mass layoffs after the great resignation.

After it happened, Biden was lying that it was not happening tho. Also, the US is not at war right now.

At least we pretend to in the EU, and build renewables.

New wind turbines are going up literally every day in some areas, and the worst offenders are actually member states politically aligned with Russia.

If megacorps have their way, you won’t be able to use banking, government, social media, etc. if you aren’t running their proprietary slop.

See Google’s Attestation API attempt. Computers can become like smsrtphones are right now.

Or more likely, desktop OSes will be locked down and will simply not be able to use it, while bank websites and other stuff will only work with locked down OSes.

For your security of course.

They did an oopsie in the 40s and it’s inertia from there.

That said, IIRC there is a German base in the US too.

Don’t worry, I balance your biases out by throwing every CV with military service out before the first round.

commemorating the Battle of the Bulge

Which she was alive for. She was 4 when that happened. Wow.

Her head looks more round and less angled.

She just looks different. It’s a bit of an uncanny valley for me, but I’ll get used to it.

Wikipedia claimed the 29s from sources that are years old. IDK though, not like it really matters, NK is basically a Chinese buffer state, any war one is involved in brings the other in.

Those old MiG-21 derivatives will make for nice NCD memes though.

You can’t get a lock on an American jet because of their stealth features.

I can’t because I don’t even have a look-down/shoot-down radar.

We are not the same.