They can turn off the game when they choose to.

Nah, he was protecting the president from gators.

She will need to do better than at the National Association of black journalists interview. Because that was anemic.

Alternatively, Ukraine claims they can expand their own military industrial complex by a factor 4 but they don't have the money themselves. So the US could also just give them cash. But this would hurt their own MIC, so they also won't do that.

The difference is enforcement capabilities. Geopolitical enforcement is not impossible it just gets murky quick. So many different priorities.

Then again a denial would also not be plausible. Either way, saying nothing is their best course of action.

Yes! Thanks, I corrected my ramblings.

The false pretenses and blatant lies are the big issue imho. If the reason they gave would have been true, I would have been OK with removing a maniac like Hussein.. but it was lies.. making the whole ordeal indeed a horrible example of a terrible war that should have never happened. And something that should have landed the people that lied, in jail.

LoL at thinking these countries got wiser. They are just getting competing offers from china now that serve the decision makers better. Bribery is an important tool in this. If the countries and their population will fare better in the future... China needs cheap labor for their next stage of growth.. to do what we did using china.

But ... These countries are not led by a political ideology that believes in the destiny of their country being the greatest (and lift their population out of poverty). Instead many of these countries are led by people who will sell their mother if they can. And in the west we at least try to hold companies to ethical standards (and regularly fail) .. china does not have any issues with what happens in not-china.

The comparison between the iraq war and Russian invasion of Ukraine is disingenuous though. The western led coalition did not go in with a message that Irak had no right to exist and its people where just (Saudis or something) confused part of one of their neighboring countries. The Russians very much are intent on permanently erasing Ukranians from history.

So the 3rd week of October all these out and about domestic terrorists get rolled up in raids all across the US and held for several weeks before their trial starts, right.

That's the FAA. The SEC could halt Trading in Tesla, spaceX and other musk companies while they investigate irregularities.