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10 points ·
Yeah the US hasn't offically gone to war since WWII and plenty of military actions haven't had any sort of congressional approval at all.
For all the bollocks Trump has done, this one actually has a very strong precedent and will go nowhere (as hilarious as it would be for something serval presidents have done before him to be the thing to finally bring him down).
13 points ·
Oh sure, Iran is super popular in the region. I'm sure all their allies will be riding to their defense any day now.
58 points ·
Yeah, that seems a bit more than "sexual impropriety" (which sounds like hes's being accused of premarital sex or something).
1 points ·
Wish we could see that in the west.
I mean, where do you think the rest of the WHO's funding comes from?
$500m over 5 years isn't even that much for the world's second biggest economy, that barely breaks them into the top 10 funders. Certainly welcome given Trump's withdrawal but back when the US was lead by marginally sane people, it was providing twice that amount *every year*.
5 points ·
No, what's on second.
12 points ·
Well, who are they donating the money to? Don't leave us in suspense like that.
1 points ·
It says he was convicted in a Russian-controlled court which is not at all the same thing. International law is clear on this and Russia is clearly breeching it.
Try putting some more effort into *your* trolling, I quoted the actual appropriate law.
0 points ·
He is a member of the International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine and as such is unambiguously not a mercenary by the definition used in the Geneva Convention and so is owed the protections afforded to prisoners of war.
Specifically, article 47 of Protocol 1 is clear that a neccesary condition to be considered a mercenary is that a person:
is not a member of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict
The fact that Russia has a history of ignoring this is not the knock-out argument you seem to think it is.
-1 points ·
What's a little contravention of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War between friends?
-26 points ·
You're also not really supposed to dig military tunnels under schools...
28 points ·
On the scale of human warfare, "a few months" is pretty new. Frankly, its fairly new on the timescale of the Ukraine war at this point.
4 points ·
It's also not going to explode so probably less of an issue on the whole than all the UXO there...
29 points ·
Because the secret is where it is, not that it exists.
9 points ·
They literally describe it as "the size of a forearm" so that about tracks with 3-4 inches diameter.
8 points ·
Most claimed "hypersonic" missiles can't actually manoeuvre at those speeds so you can spot them at distance and work out where you need to send an interceptor missile. We saw this with Patriot batteries vs Kinzhal in Ukraine.
4 points ·
Those would count as services which Trump explicitly excluded from his calculation, presumably so that he could claim the US has a larger trade deficit than it actually does. Although given he basically pulled the formula out of his ass anyway I'm not sure why he bothered to fudge the numbers as well.
12 points ·
While that is true, I do think there is an opportunity for the EU to get a real economic and diplomatic boost by strengthen ties with the traditional western allies in the Pacific now that America is torching its bridges there. Whether or not it can manage to get all member states to agree quickly enough to actually take that opportunity is a different matter though...
6 points ·
Euros or rmb as the new reserve currency? Place your bets now (literally if you like).
8 points ·
Who gets to keep the nukes?
9 points ·
It's also worth remembering that a bunch of the electronics in the F35 were developed by BAE Systems. If we really got to the "trying to sabotage the planes sold to allies" stage, America's F35 fleet would be fucked too.