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He also said he wants to be friendly to Russia and take US troops the hell out of the Mid-West. But well, promising is easy, and he is not the first to promise those exact things.
I think you mean Middle East? The Midwest of the US has not been invaded by American troops. :)
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I think you mean Middle East? The Midwest of the US has not been invaded by American troops. :)
Ops. Where did English get East and West from anyway that it became so different from latin languages?
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=east http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=west
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I haven't seen any warmongering. But what was broadcasted in the campaign I honestly rejected as too ridiculous to be true, and a case of media exaggerating about a candidate they don't like. But now it turns out that what was broadcasted in the campaign is in fact what the current President means to do, and this is scary. From what I remember from my history lessons, it smells too much of how Hitler started his rule…
> Assuming this doesn't happen, there's also a second scenario I fear - the US will say "fuck you Europe" and utterly withdraw, and Russia will get expansionist ideas. Perhaps Europe should form a military of it's own for protection then? Snarkiness aside, the nerve of people scolding the US like it's a foolish child while living under the umbrella of its "discount" military protection is a little galling.
Post WW2, both the German and Japanese military were greatly limited, or outright abolished.
The numerous bases of the US around the globe in any country and climate imaginable are not only selfless bastions of people in need - they serve very concrete functions, namely protecting trade routes and political stability in systems that are beneficial to the economy of the US.
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This isn't yet decided. Microsoft and the DoJ are still arguing about this in the court system, which so far has ruled that the US government cannot compel Microsoft to release data it holds in Ireland. It's currently waiting for the DoJ to decide whether to take it to the Supreme Court: http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/01/micros...
Even if the DoJ did make it law, it would surely conflict with law that the Irish domiciled entity is subject to.
Unlinking the two companies completely might satisfy what you appear to be angling for, but it would be, in essence, a potential competitor to Amazon at that point.
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Ops. Where did English get East and West from anyway that it became so different from latin languages?
From PIE via Proto-Germanic: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=east http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=west
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Ops. Where did English get East and West from anyway that it became so different from latin languages?
From PIE via Proto-Germanic: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=east http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=west
Thanks a lot for those links.
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> Assuming this doesn't happen, there's also a second scenario I fear - the US will say "fuck you Europe" and utterly withdraw, and Russia will get expansionist ideas. Perhaps Europe should form a military of it's own for protection then? Snarkiness aside, the nerve of people scolding the US like it's a foolish child while living under the umbrella of its "discount" military protection is a little galling.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that it has been, and is until very recently this very 'umbrella' that the US wishes to spread around the world, as she sees it as advantageous. Post WW2, both the German and Japanese military were greatly limited, or outright abolished. The numerous bases of the US around the globe in any country and climate imaginable are not only selfless bastions of people in need - they…