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10 points ·
Remember when Pete Hegseth paused arms to Ukraine and didn't even bother telling Trump (supposedly)? That was 2 weeks ago. If what shipments going in and out of this country aren't controlled by Trump, what's to say when Trump says something will go out it will
17 points ·
Part of BRICS is about bypassing use of the U.S. dollar. And with the U.S. dollar faltering right now it's the best time to shove it back at us and let the U.S. make mistakes with trade partners. Also Brasil didn't do anything to the U.S. to get these threats. Also I believe Brasil made a recipretory law for just this purpose within the last year. So the Trump administration knew they would receive tarrifs back.
4 points ·
Fixed in a flash.
6 points ·
We'll just push forward. If the current is reversing we can just get it going in the opposite direction and all should be well. /s
1 points ·
The one thing Trump's decision told the world was every country should be building nukes as fast as possible and keep quiet about it.
11 points ·
While I get what you mean, what is everyone else doing, pretending like they aren't acknowledging them while running their relations through them?
Like when they trade with India, Pakistan, China, U.S., and such.. communication must be happening somewhere
12 points ·
Maybe but it's a lot harder to start a fire with a cigarette than most people think. You need to be in a dry area for sure, and have good air flow. The tests people point to a lot are that if you drop a cigarette into gasoline, it will just put the cigarette out. If you drop it in grass, it is highly unlikely it will ignite anything. When they set up dry hay to test it they had the best odds of setting one. There were studies where they lit cigarettes and left them on different fabrics, and found 5/300 fabrics could actually catch fire.
If you pick up a leaf and try to light it with a cigarette it will fail unless it's fall, and even in fall I have lit a leaf intentionally and dropped it to he ground and the leaf burns out without catching anything else. Your best shot would be to get your kindling all together, dried and knock the cherry into it, then start blowing on it like you were trying to start a camp fire. Wood doesn't ignite till about 600F/300+C or so if it isn't a continuous heat. (Assuming it's dry). A cigarette burns at around 400F/200c unless someone is pulling on it, then temperature goes way up, which is why you'd want to blow on the cherry to get any kindling to catch.
Sidenote: I worked at a movie theater back in 2006 for a few years. At the end of the night we would throw away large amounts of popcorn. That stuff makes a great fire starter. It's light, airflow around it is great, and because it has the oil on it it burns fairly hot and the fire tends to stick to kindle and such really well. I used to take a couple gallons or so and tie it to my backpack because it added hardly any weight, and you'd have a spare snack when drinking around the campfire after you get it going.
1 points ·
"According to the October 2024 report from the NNSA, it has also been certified to fly on the B-2, F-16, and German Air Force PA-200 Tornado jets, and is working towards certification on the Italian Air Force’s Tornados and the US Air Force’s B-21 bomber."
Meaning the German PA-200 the UK just retired in 2019 could have been certified to carry those warheads... But you probably would rather have warheads not made in America either
41 points ·
People have different definitions of major incidents apparently...
"including a 17-year-old who was hospitalized after being found sitting on the street with stab wounds to the lower abdomen."
"The prefect of the Paris police, Laurent Nunez, said that "no major incident has been reported.""
3 points ·
The funding comes from Congress.... So either they approve it or are forced to approve it which they would have to recognize they no longer exist as an entity if the executive branch can write their checks for them.
So to save face, they would have to approve or impeach. Or completely give up the guise that it is a Republic. Their votes are public record. So the executive branch could make them up, post them and threaten them not to say anything.. but I doubt many of them would go through with that and not vote to impeach unless they are truly pro dictatorship. Some of them think they are pro dictatorship, but when you gather hundreds of people spending their lives/career trying to work their way up in power and someone says they are going to dissolve their positions/power and their chances of rising or having any say plummet.. they would be powerless if they chose to follow... Greed and self preservation would make them not want it.
16 points ·
He also can't. Proclamations of war are made by the legislature. (Congress). If the President sends troops in a supposed emergency they can go without legislative consent for 90 days and must be recalled at that time without the legislature's approval. It's stupid, because 90 days into a conflict we have troops on the ground and an immediate evacuation only hurts us economically and global appearance some worry about. Not to mention the troops lost/injured, casualties left with those attacked and Congress not agreeing to keep them there is an admission that it was wrong, so not paying restitution would hurt international relations as well.
To me it comes to, if he orders troops on the ground, an immediate Congressional impeachment would be needed, and the Senate to remove him, or they will vote in favor of staying in the fight to "save face" and not care how many innocent lives die or are thrown into poverty, starve, are raped, wrongly imprisoned, tortured, and the damages it will cause to the mental health of a whole new generation of our soilders and people of other counties around the world.
48 points ·
Demand for his head, I doubt. They'll just call for a full invasion and taking of the strait and justify the strikes and invasion do to Iran closing it.
1 points ·
Sorry, sitting in meeting bored. Didn't know what to do with the time
3 points ·
The number of active duty troops needed by the U.S. to enter battle gas fallen drastically. We aren't actually trying to occupy anything. For instance we sent 130,000 into Iraq in 2003, and the needed numbers have fallen more since as warfare advances. The U.S. has over 2,000,000 troops and 700,000 reserves. The draft was retired because we don't need it. We just view it as the draft being gone because that's what the government wanted us to see/believe. Yet every male in the U.S. is required by law to sign up. Propoganda works wonders on us all. Will we see a ban occur, someday I'm sure, but it won't be before we know volunteers far outweigh what's needed for the greed of the rich.
3 points ·
I don't think we learned anything from Vietnam. Though I do hope this will make Israelies realize they aren't gaining anything for the common person, just more hate, loss, and economic struggle eventually.
Lessons we were supposed to learn from Vietnam.
In the last week we have seen calls to cut aid to troops, citizens, and the media overflow with misinformation to push forward agendas that are not in the best interest of the common citizen.
1 points ·
I'm curious to see what Iran would have become in the next 5 years had this shit not occurred. It had the potential of becoming another regime or possibly a democracy again. Hard to say where it was going.
12 points ·
Does a bomb make sound if no one is left to hear it?
3 points ·
He'd have to "weave" into the parts that Putin, Obama, and Hannibal play part in the prayer
6 points ·
Well that ups the chances that Israel will use one. That was the one thing I was hoping would stop them
0 points ·
It's an interesting satellite though if you hadn't seen anything about it yet.
https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-teams-up-with-india-to-launch-first-of-its-kind-1-5-billion-satellite
Seems like it can monitor everything down to moisture levels in soil and is supposed to pass the data for free to research companies, but of course that's what they say now, and who knows how that will play out. Otherwise building agricultural models and seeing how areas are changing over time could be really neat.