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FelixDeCat said:
5 letter word you may have forgotten...

W A T E R

We are short already in many places. Just ask Texas. The Western US fighting for every drop of the Colorado.

Damn farmers and data centers.
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It sounds like some organization that has a monopoly on the use of force should make some rules regarding the usage of water in drought-prone areas.

Shame we dont have one of those.
 
Jaskalas said:
Imagine a southern country not wanting to be colonized by an imperial invader.
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That is the problem, how do you approach a country where people live in poverty and the regime is rich ?
You start teaching and stirring up the people with a different view on the world , a different ideology.
If there is democracy and fair elections, you support the politician that wants to do business with you.
That is always how it goes. The whole world does it.
Promises are made, supporting education, schools, university. hospitals arise. Quality of life increases.

But all of a sudden the struggles come , the riots and the violence. And the fragile democracy shatters. Why ? Why is that ?
 
Brovane said:
Previous administrations have established the precedent that POTUS can act without congressional authorization for these types of "limited" military actions. Still waiting for Congress to do anything about this.

One thing Trump is good at, is saying the quiet part out loud.
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I've heard no such thing. He's good at nothing.
 
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I don't know if guys have looked at Google Maps lately... most freshwater lakes in the US are low. I look at maps all the time considering I have to I work with flood insurance on a daily basis.

This is a world wide problem. Too many people already!
 
FelixDeCat said:
I don't know if guys have looked at Google Maps lately... most freshwater lakes in the US are low. I look at maps all the time considering I have to I work with flood insurance on a daily basis.

This is a world wide problem. Too many people already!
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I am trying to find those (exploded) methane craters in siberia on google maps, where the permafrost is serverly melting but the images are low res. Millions of gallons of methane bubble up on the northern arctic every day and it will be billions of gallons of methane released in the air in the near future.
 
William Gaatjes said:
What i would like to see is that president Trump orders the soldiers not to destroy the drugs and the boats but instead capture the drugs as proof. A huge pile of cocaine and fentanyl shown to the press, that would help a lot with the image of the Trump administration.
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Two problems with that:
  1. That would require the administration to act with lawful forethought, something we've seen they're incapable of doing.
  2. The authorities would spend large amounts of time and resources to find the leaders of the smugglers, only to have Trump pardon them once they buy up a bunch of Trump coin.
 
uallas5 said:
Two problems with that:
  1. That would require the administration to act with lawful forethought, something we've seen they're incapable of doing.
  2. The authorities would spend large amounts of time and resources to find the leaders of the smugglers, only to have Trump pardon them once they buy up a bunch of Trump coin.
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It is hope in vain, i know. But it never hurts to hope for something good.
 
fskimospy said:
Ya got me Felix, I did not have a clue that you can build all you like but without an available water supply, you are building in vain.
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Honestly we just need to control the population IMO TBH. That or evolve gills and liver under the sea in oxygenated salt water. Although I heard there is pollution down there too.
 
amenx said:
Looks like Trumps well studied plan is working swimmingly.

Avenida Boyacá, a highway running alongside El Avila National Park in Venezuela’s capital, has ground to a halt because masked men holding Kalashnikovs are stopping drivers and demanding to search their phones and cars.

The gangs of armed men, part of pro-Maduro militias known as Colectivos, scoured vehicles at hastily erected checkpoints following a government directive to root out Venezuelans in support of the US’s brazen capture of Nicolás Maduro...

www.telegraph.co.uk

Maduro’s motorcycle thugs go door to door in hunt for Trump supporters

Loyalists scour Caracas for signs of dissent and celebration of US raid
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk

Wonder if they'll go into ISIS mode when encountering Americans.
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Is it just me, or does this look somewhat familiar as to what I read back in Highschool in Global History textbooks, as to what happened in Iran and Afghanistan in the 1970s.

History repeating itself again?
 
Scholarly and excellent legal and practical analysis of the situation with historical context, current piece at The New York Times:

Link to current article at The New York Times is PAYWALL PENETRATING for 14 days, i.e. until 01/21/2026:

The Great Unraveling Has Begun​

www.nytimes.com

Opinion | The Great Unraveling Has Begun

As states disregard limits on the lawful use of force, this may be just the beginning of a slide into frequent war.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 
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