Ukraine had physical possession of nukes but no ability to use them. The Russians never let them have the launch codes.

Ukrainian officials knew they weren’t getting anything worthwhile in the Budapest memorandum because they weren’t giving anything up besides a headache.

South Africa gave up their nukes and decommissioned their nuclear program. Ukraine just formalized what was already true, the nukes were not usable for them.

He probably will be a. Martyr for all the people that were fighting the protestors to keep him in power.

I’d say Talerico is the progressive in this race. Crocket supports Israel and takes Aipac money.

Yeah there is a big sibling little sibling dynamic and isreal is not the big sibling.

You would do anything for your little sibling and likewise the US would do anything for Isreal. It’s not right but it true, but that doesn’t mean they control us.

It’s up to us to stop it.

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His religious argument for progressive values is what makes him a strong candidate for Texas.

Talerico is serving in the state house, Crocket in the national congressional delegation.

Talerico. Brings his sincerity, faith, and working class background in in one of the poorest school districts in the country. He has integrity and and a way of invoking Christianity that I think resonates in Texas. He appeals to a broad swath of voters without compromising his progressive ideals.

I would vote for Crocket if she wasn’t up against Talerico. But as is, I think he has a better shot at the general and I trust him more.

This is u ironically why the rich should support a wealth tax.

This is why we need a wealth tax.

Holy shit, that’s not just putting your face in the leopards mouth that’s crawling into it’s stomach as hard as you can.

That’s true, Taiwan is armed to the teeth and our regional partners would not be partners if we actually went psychotic and tried to invade. Our supply lines are way longer than China and all the logistics in the world won’t help if we don’t have bases to operate from.

I meant we could occupy them like we occupied Iraq. We would win the military confrontation. The occupation would break us.

We could do it once, maybe twice or three times if the countries are small and weak, but it would break us. The rest of the world would adjust. We would all be poorer but the US would be fucked. Trump doesn’t understand that we built a military too expensive to actually use. It made sense if we wanted to avoid conflict, and casualties, while still being top dog and getting our way, but actually going in and occupying territory is medieval thinking.

He backed off Greenland. Taiwan would be an order of magnitude worse. The US could occupy any country on earth (maybe not China, without some Roman level war crimes) But it would be the end of us.

I think the antichrist looks like Peter Theil, and shares a name with him. He’s hiding in plain sight.

Perhaps we are operating on different definitions.

I would not disagree that America is a de facto oligarchy. It remains a de jure democracy.

Because the writers of the first law did not care about whether it made any difference.

Do you think the votes are rigged?

Do you think laws can’t be passed? Did the deep state create Obamacare and pretend it was Obama and the Democrats?

What about the chips act? The inflation reduction act? Are they pretending to pass laws?

Your optimism far exceeds mine.

The law says there needs to be an election so an election was held.