I’m sure that several prominent politicians have been putting together teams to run campaigns but the GOP candidates probably mostly wanted to avoid any official announcements or major actions until Mitch made it official. Now the gate is open and the race is on.
“seize what they can of our military equipment”
The United States would absolutely obliterate Europe in that situation and a Russia/USA alliance would be cemented within hours (edit: and by this I mean a full military alliance and coordinated attacks and land divvied up). If Europe tries to seize or attack any USA assets it would be catastrophic.
Europe needs to rearm, start building a stronger European defense industry (while hopefully putting up strong guard rails), and should probably peacefully push American troops out.
Europe can probably defend against Russia on its own right now. If they’re a bit short of that capability, they can reach it relatively quickly. They are many years away from being able to attack the USA without it going badly for them.
As an American it saddens me to say that those military bases could quickly become the gravest threats to many once allies. Trump has been threatening to pull out American troops. Europe should get a plan in place to start rearming, and crucially, training large swaths of the population in basic military prowess. And then encourage Trump to withdraw troops.
It disgusts me to say this, but I would not be shocked if Trump dos indeed snatch territory from Europe or Canada.
It’s no longer inconceivable that the USA and Russia, and hell maybe even China, end up in some loose “non interference” alliance where they divvy up spheres of influence.
The Switch OLED is already a bit big to travel with for me but I make do and I’d prefer it to be smaller in hand. I had the lite and much preferred its form factor. OLED does have a much, much better screen. Different strokes for different folks. The Deck doesn’t meet my use case, nad that’s fine.
I genuinely didn’t think it was satire when I saw the headline. Trump coming out and saying something like that is literally just par for course.
I missed “Go” and thought they meant Game Freak and I was quite shocked lol
Steam Deck seems pretty amazing. Unfortunately, in my case, it’s too big to travel with and I doubt my small hands will find much comfort.
Really hope they come out with a Steam Deck Lite. I know you can buy smaller handheld PCs but last I checked they were quite pricey (tbf I haven’t checked recently)
That sucks. It wasn’t much money tbh but a few bucks here and there was nice.
Dude there’s no need for petty insults. Clowns are highly trained professionals who bring joy to the world. No need to insult them with unfair associations to slimy dinosaur politicians.
They shall be tut-tutted once, tut-tutted twice, tut-tutted three times. And they might get a stern glare as well.
And if they gut medicaid, that’ll push pestilence even further and contribute to death as well. The situation in Ukraine contributes to war.
I’ve never bought into the apocalypse stuff but it’s interesting how quickly and easily things line up.
I’m pretty sure once she crosses into “physical” action (not the right word but not sure what to use) she’s probably just getting removed herself. In this hypothetical case, maybe that encourages widespread resistance, but I think we’ll hear crickets in a few weeks.
If she’s going to extreme measures, probably best to do so as a last resort. She might be able to pin Adams under state laws or other mechanisms to try and remove him. If nothing else, better to go into a showdown with Trump with stronger legal backing.
So what does the governor do? What does anyone do? What’s “the” action? The only avenue forward is hopefully legal measures because if governor breaks any serious laws she’s done and nothing happens.
Yeah, it is all political theater because one party is much more powerful than the other.
True, sticks won’t bring about world peace on their own. Might save Europe from getting whacked for now.
Yeah I think we all agree Trump doesn’t give AF about what’s legal. But crucially, Trump can do that because he’s commander in chief of the world’s largest military, has a Supreme Court that supports him, has a rabid base that would go to war for him, and a Congress that overall is more favorable to him than Democrats.
In other words, Trump is in a position to flout rules. The governor is not. This doesn’t make me happy. I don’t support it. But it is what it is.
Hopefully we reach a war-free era in the not so distant future and humanity prospers.
There were three guys with sticks. China couldn’t project power far but Soviet-Sino relations were strained and the risk of war was high because they share borders.
I’d love for there to be a world with no sticks period but humanity is a long way from that. Europe becoming the forth guy with a stick could force everyone else, and especially Russia, to be more cautious. And if it comes to blows, the EU/UK are gonna want to have that stick.
If you’re EU/UK and multiple parties are around you with big sticks, would you rather be defenseless or have a stick?
“Do you honestly think having some legal justification would change anything about how Trump would respond?”
Not sure where you’re going with this. Sadly, we’re in a might makes right era. I’d be surprised if Trump pays more than cursory attention to the lawyers advising him.
Pretty much the only thing the governor can do is political theater or resigning in protest (which Trump could care less about).
I mean yeah, it can work exactly that way. The Cold War was horrifically bloody in many countries and regions, but the USA and USSR directly slugging it out would have bathed the world in much more blood. Likewise, the Soviets and China going at it in a full scale war after the Soviet-Sino split would have been horrific.
It’s a high risk strategy but not one without rewards.
The moon would shrug that rock off without noticing. Any changes in measurements (mass, velocity, etc.) would be minuscule.