I think that America has kinda always done these things, destabilising regimes or outright overthrowing them, but historically it’s tried to add some kind of legal veneer. They just don’t bother with that now - they just use their power.
It’s similar internally - there has been repression and racism since forever, propagated by people close to or within the state, but now it’s more obviously official policy.
I have certainly been guilty in the past of thinking naively about US motives and intentions, giving them the benefit of the doubt. I’m some ways it’s refreshing that they are so honest now; just a shame that economically nobody can afford to shun them as they clearly deserve.
I feel like this phrasing rather downplays the number of Americans who are over the moon about what’s going on and actively voted for it. It’s quite a terrifying number of people frankly.
I’m concerned about how much our military depends on USA … Intelligence … targeting… F35s etc …and many other countries…if he don’t agree with us he can turn it off … including the f35 …
From memory, there’s no functionality that would allow the USA to remotely disable F35s, but the thinking is that if they stopped providing parts/support, the fleet wouldn’t be able to keep going all that long.
I have a vague recollection that Trident required US approval to use, but that also runs counter to the narrative I’ve heard about submarine captains having sealed letters from the PM outlining what to do if they lose all contact with the UK.
“There is no evidence that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz ordered the National Guard to be deployed against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The claim appears to have originated from a satirical article, and there is no factual basis for it.”
The message I heard from Walz after this incident was actually, Don’t give them what they want, ie resistance that gives them the excuse to make a show of strength with justification.
I initially had a similar thought - but it’s a minefield of a topic. Police murders of white victims generally tend to be under-reported, partly because the public response is low-key and in the US the general assumption to all such killings is “Probably had it coming…”. Ethnic communities don’t tend to take extrajudicial killings lying-down, and so get reported more (and demonised much more…). White people don’t so often get involved in ethnic protests around the usual (what a word to use in this context) cop-murders with black victims because frankly it isn’t safe to do so when you’re seen as part of the problem - and recent events do kinda make that understandable… But yeah, as others have said, there’s a lot of white involvement in anti-ICE protests, be interesting to see if the goes up or down after this latest murder.
Dear All Gun-toting rednecks: THIS is the shit the second amendment was actually fucking meant for!
On Sunday, Trump also re-posted on social media a message suggesting that Rubio - a Cuban-American former Florida senator and the son of Cuban exiles - could become president of Cuba.
Trump shared that post with the comment: “Sounds good to me!”
