PNN submarines

It would look fine in a science fiction film. Sadly, science fiction is not credible - it wouldn't be fiction if it were.

Putin protests he's no longer the first to wipe his ass with the UN Charter.

He wouldn't be so undiplomatic. Trump probably has more to fear from the US Supreme Court. Kidnapping a country's president looks very like an act of war, and you ought to get congressional approval to do that.

Trump doesn't seem to have bothered.

Yes, we should have had hearings and votes in both houses of Congress before we sent in the marines to snatch Maduro.

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Actually Trump should have asked a few congressmen how the house would react to such an act of childish bullying. Any sensible adult would have given the same answer, but sensible adults don't flatter Donald Trump with the enthusiasm he needs and expects, so he avoids them.

If DT is successful in cutting off the cocaine and fentanyl imports in to the US, the sellers will shift more to exporting to europe. That's happening already.

Given that about 100K americans die from drug overdoses a year, Maduro is a mass murderer and we have a moral obligation to stop the drugs, any way that works.

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Dream on. As long as Americans are unhappy enough to want to buy drugs, somebody will find a way to sell them what they want.

It's a public health problem, and America doesn't have universal health care. That makes the Republican politicians who hate paying for health care for the poor the "mass murderers" in this context.

"Harm reduction" works a lot better than a "war on drugs" but costs more.

It only takes one spark to start a forest fire, and one virus to start an epidemic.

There's no way to keep those isolated.

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But firewalls around early outbreaks can prevent epidemics.

Ostriches are quite noticeable, and easy to shoot. Diverting ICE agents from shooting protestors to shooting ostriches would be pretty effective, and popular.

Am 02.01.26 um 18:41 schrieb john larkin:

Yes, it would be much more efficient to cure DT's temporal lobes.

Gerhard

Am 05.01.26 um 20:33 schrieb john larkin:

The real problem in the US is abuse of prescription drugs such as Oxycodone or Oxycontin, pioneered by US pharma giants like Purdue. More deaths than Heroin and Cocaine combined.

or google " abuse of prescription drugs usa scandal "

Yes, it works nicely, got some after my colon cancer removal. I did not eat most of them, for a reason.

Gerhard