It’s Trump’s responsibility but others could intervene. Soldiers don’t have to execute illegal orders and Congress doesn’t have to finance the war and the media can become much more critical and can call for a general strike.
The elite agrees with Trump.
Police in Paris apprehended and briefly detained European Parliament Member Rima Hassan Thursday on suspicion of “apology for terrorism”
While far-right and pro-Israel French lawmakers celebrated Hassan’s detention and called for her to be stripped of parliamentary immunity,
How can she be detained while having parliamentary immunity? If that’s as illegal as I expect then that’s a dangerous precedent and the celebrating pro-Israel French lawmakers are beyond stupid because it is a threat to everybody.
Members of the Parliament of France enjoy irresponsibility for what they did as parliamentarians, and partial inviolability – that is, severe restrictions for the police or justice to arrest or detain them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_immunity
She is not a member of the French parliament but that shouldn’t make any difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
Wouldn’t the billionaires tell the Republicans to start an impeachment if the war was just Trump’s idea? It’s like the ballroom. Turns out, it wasn’t Trump’s idea to tear down the East Wing.
Why should this lever not work?
As the clock approached midnight on the final day, we had largely resigned ourselves to failure.
Only a spontanious decision changed the meaning of:
That was the America many of us worked with.
They tried discretion first and they only made an exception for their closest ally. Trump changed America, but not by much.
Upvoted with the assumption that there is a hidden /s.
And so it begins. How long until Lemmy will be forced to verify age?
Part of the EU explanation:
We were prepared to support a text that emphasises the scale of the atrocity of the transatlantic slave trade, the importance of remembrance, and the need to continue combating slavery in its contemporary forms. Instead, the text before us raises a number of legal and factual concerns that we cannot overlook.
First, the use of superlatives in the context of crimes against humanity is not legally accurate, such as the use of “gravest” in the title and throughout the text, which implies a hierarchy among atrocity crimes, when no legal hierarchy between crimes against humanity exists. It risks undermining the harm suffered by all victims of these crimes and lacks legal clarity crucial for ensuring accountability. We firmly reject introducing ambiguity in this respect.
Second, the selective inclusion of lengthy, historical, and contentious references to regional jurisprudence and selective and unbalanced interpretation of historical events - such as in Preambular Paragraphs 21 and 23 - is at odds with accepted UN practice, as well as the stated universal and forward looking objective of this initiative. It risks creating divisions when unity is both necessary and achievable. The role of the General Assembly is not to substitute itself to the academic debate amongst historians.
Third, we are also concerned by certain legal references and assertions that are either inaccurate or inconsistent with international law. This includes suggestions of a retroactive application of international rules which was non-existent at the time and claims for reparations, which is incompatible with established principles of international law. The principle of non-retroactivity, a fundamental cornerstone of the international legal order, must be strictly upheld. References to claims for reparations also lack a sound legal basis. Any framework for reparatory justice must be grounded in existing multilateral instruments.
South Korea voting in favor of the resolution is surprising. They are team America and they were enslaved, but are not included in the resolution because they were not shipped to the Americas. Seeing one’s own enslavement as not as grave as the African one is a statement.
can’t use the same signing keys as a Google Play release, which they should never have been doing anyway
Why? Same author, same signature.
I can’t see this move by Google as anything but a power grab to reduce competition
It locks down phones. Without sideloading the elite controls which messenger services can be used. They most likely can also secretly update apps and replace them with versions that leak the encryption keys.
With Google not being threatened by a competitor this essentially tells us that the elite is serious about moving to fascism.
It’s frightening to me that the comment has 85 upvotes but no reply that points this out.
What did they do?
Closed source linux drivers is not nice, but also not shady.
200 rds per minute single shot rate, 1200 burst rate.
So firing takes 1/20 second, which leaves the rest of 1/3 second to aim at the next target. I don’t know if that is realistic.
If the drones fly 360km/h that leaves 60 seconds to take them down. (https://3dprinting.com/news/chinese-students-custom-3d-printed-drone-sets-new-speed-record/)
There is an additional rocket launcher with 60 missiles.
So alltogether handling 100 drones should be possible.
It’s gas, so leaks are not a disaster. If they build the pipeline in segments, and several in parallel, then they can handle hits. 1 km pipeline can be rebuilt in a day.
Fattah 1 is a problem. It’s supposed to cost $200,000. That’s 5,000 for a billion. I guess I was wrong and Qatar has a problem.
1800km. With a radius of 3km, 300 would be needed.
That would cost about €5 billion.
https://suv.report/bundeswehr-will-500-bis-600-skyranger-30-fuer-6-bis-8-mrd-euro-beschaffen/
I would assume that’s reasonable. Germany alone imports gas for €2 billion per month. Historically gas was half as expensive. So the system could pay off after a year. Including all of Europe, and reactivating old industry processes, that could be half a year or a quarter.
https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economy/Foreign-Trade/Tables/natural-gas-monthly.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyranger_30
Drones go boom.
There is the Qatar-Turkey pipeline project. The US had to take down Syria for it, which they did. If Qatar hurries, they can make their losses back big time. Qatar doesn’t need the strait.
A solution without demand is worthless. At first the demand has to be created. Some people value understanding and are thankful but that’s a small minority.
The sales rep offered a solution to that person’s problem.
You want that person to be right which they perceive as you want to dominate them.
So they try to resist you while they are highly motivated to follow the instructions of the sales person.
The war with Iran was announced in 2001. The unpredictability of the US is that it took them so long.