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While some naysayers might claim the US has entered the FO stage after the commencement of FA, I have full faith in the ability of great minds like Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth to navigate the sea of uncertainty and achieve strategic victory!
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Yes, and Georgia refused. American elections are a lot more complicated than you seem to believe. There’s plenty to worry about in specific locations, but the federal government has no direct control over any of the voting processes or policies.
The Federal government has some direct control and lots of indirect control. Relevant right now is the horrible Save America act.
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This is very much a 'you break it, you buy it' situation. The US should be running destroyer screens for convoys a la WW2 today , yet AFAIK the US fleet is sitting hundreds of miles out of the Persian Gulf, within bombing range, outside of easy strike range.
It would be cheaper just to build an oil pipeline around it than to cover insurance and risk through that Strait. It would do well to just forget the Strait exists, our conflict has taken it out of commission for the indefinite future.
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It's because technology doesn't change the fundamentals of global geopolitics. Which is that nearly all of history can be explained as a struggle to control basic resources such as arable land, oil, minerals, etc. Everything you're seeing today is because those resources are becoming either increasingly scarce, or increasingly valuable.
Are they? We have so much stuff that we just throw things away if a tiny piece of it gets tarnished / broken. The US's population density is pretty low and we have a ton of land not in cities that's very sparsely populated. Like it largely seems that geopolitics of now is about creating scarcity.
How else do you create scarcity except by controlling all the resources?
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Unless you are sending ground troops that's not happening.
I think you underestimate how much Iranians hate their current regime..
Only more reason to finally get rid of the current Iranian regime and any and all of their military capabilities.
Does this mean that Greece will join the US/Israeli side in this increasingly global conflict?
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The US held elections during the Civil War. There is no crisis that would create a situation where elections "cannot be held". That is to say, if the current admin attempts to suspend elections, the legality of that and the magnitude of the reaction will be the same, crisis or no.
Some of the states held presidential elections, not all, but the winners write history so it worked out fine in that case.
That's not precedent for the federal government declining to hold elections in any way.
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There is no crisis in the US that results in canceled elections
In the current laws you mean, dictatorships usually start by throwing current laws out of the window. Not that I believe Trump would do that, but it is not unheard of in other parts of the world
Start to worry of the Republicans start talking about expanding the Supreme Court to add their own to it
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> If the goal was to hurt China / BRICS and kneecap Iran it seems on point. While also hurting Europe, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and many more. Very on point... It will hurt everyone, Americans included, oil is a global market, fertilisers are a global market, those are basic inputs for probably every single thing produced in the world. So now all of us around the globe have to pay the price for American I…
> It will hurt everyone, Americans included, oil is a global market, fertilisers are a global market, those are basic inputs for probably every single thing produced in the world. Only because those countries choose for that to be the case. For example, Saudi Arabia and Russia don't do that. Local prices and export prices are different. But the US, Canada, the Netherlands, and long list of other countries could make…
The US Government cannot force US companies to sell at a lower domestic price if they can get a higher price exporting. I know that God-Emperor Trump pretends that he can command the oil sector to make less money, but he can't.
>For example, Saudi Arabia and Russia don't do that
2 countries famous for being beacons of free-market capitalism.