Jim Hacker TV PM.

Fire him and deport him to the United States. he loves it so much. Given his elite education and current position plus perfected groveling ability with Trump he would make a much better more coherent US SecDef than Whiskey Pete is. At least then he would be near his idol every day.

Even HMS Conqueror’s sinking of the ARA Belgrano occurred only after the explicit declaration of a maritime exclusion zone, giving fair warning. At least the Belgrano had also received orders to attack the British task force. As the Brits would say, not very sporting conduct by the American chaps.

I did that many moons ago by watching the movie Das Boot in German several times.

What’s next, demanding any future papal conclave be held in the new ballroom at the White House presided over by President Trump with golden smoke to indicate who he has chosen(himself) as Pope?

Ron White of Blue Collar fame said it best. “You can’t fix Stupid. “

Maybe the real war goal is fiscal, to find a way to add that 500 billion more into the 2026 Defense budget to get to his 1.5 trillion pledge. Nothing eats budget money like war. It burns thru munitions stockpiles, airplane fatigue life, ship maintenance and deployment costs, and personnel costs.

I wonder, can the EU turf Hungary, and give their spot to Ukraine?

So there is also the argument that state involvement is warranted. l quickly learned in Queen’s Immigration Law, see a hole in a statute or regulation, drive your argument thru it like a hot knife thru butter. Litigators love vagueness and imprecise law. That’s why I love it too.

Granted I have limited legal interpretation skills, but I could actually see justification for ICE officers enforcing their exclusive duties of immigration enforcement having immunity from state prosecution if they engaged in only that. Of course they have stepped far outside that in practice.

Doesn’t pre-emption only hold where there is the authority to act or rule? On matters of exclusive state jurisdiction as this seems at first blush, DOJ seems to be acting totally ultra vires. Likely another case of litigation bound for SCOTUS. Keeping a lot of lawyers fully employed.

NATO and allied Defence Ministers must just cringe having to talk to Side Show Bob here.

If State Bar licensing and regulation is exclusively a matter of state Jurisdiction, then wouldn’t Printz v United States seem to be the governing jurisprudence barring the feds imposing any obligations upon the associations?

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I bet every defence minister of America’s allies in Europe and Asia dread every time they have to talk and listen to this guy. He reminds me of “Plankton” on SpongeBob.

All these diverse and long (combat) deployments are going to start to really negatively affect personnel retention. I can see stop loss orders being issued soon because service members are in such demand. He is stretching people resources tight

Next Trump will be ordering the recommissioning of the Iowa Battleships out of Museum status to bombard Bandar Abbas and the Iranian coast.

Didn’t Printz vs United States, 521 US 898 (1997) make it pretty clear there is no legal obligation for cooperation in cases of exclusive jurisdiction. Ironically, we are going thru this exact question in Canada of the obligation of jurisdictional cooperation over guns of all things too.

I hate to use the Germany 1930’s analogy but the Nazi occupying of the Rhineland in 1935 led to the occupation of Austria in 1938, the Sudetenland and finally Czechoslovakia in early 1939. Each time with no real cost. Authoritarian success at shattering norms, fuels greater boundary breaking.

We have literally been screwed ever since Trump descended the escalator to announce his candidacy. It is like every Republican has received or now gets a prophylactic lobotomy upon joining, in order to accept and cheerlead Trump’s every pronouncement or idea. Just like the David Koresh type cult.

What a positively 1930’s Berlin look Washington is acquiring.

Aerial bombing has never won any war by itself in over 100 years of warfare. Britain, Russia, Germany, Vietnam were all pounded relentlessly by air and it only hardened the people’s resolve to fight. To quote that childhood fountain of wise words, Bugs Bunny “ Remember, You asked for it!!!”

America and Israel may have been successful in decapitating the head of an ugly snake, but by throwing away any pretense of legality of conduct, they may have created a multi headed hydra of unpredictable consequences that will be felt in the coming days, weeks and months as this war unfolds.

America was rightly outraged. Pearl Harbor was pure treachery and illegal. I am sure that the Iranian people, as sick as they were of the mullahs and their government will be just as justifiably outraged by this systemic attack on their land and war as Americans were on December 7th 1941.

Wasn’t Japan negotiating with America for a peaceful outcome while their naval fleet sailed to within range to disable the American ability to wage war. Striking suddenly and severely weakening the Pacific Fleet, without a declaration of war? Did America react to this treachery by surrendering?

Instead of continuing to methodically build up stockpiles to have for defending America’s interests in the Indo-Pacific theatre and continuing to supply Ukraine with needed SAM and precision weaponry to weaken Russia further. This is a wake up call for Asian and NATO partners to build baby build.

I thought Trump said he had built up the stockpile to levels no one has ever seen before? Do you mean to say he was blowing smoke up everyone’s behinds? Tell me it isn’t so!!! The Chinese and Russians are smiling that Trump chose to fritter away the stockpile in a risky regime change mission. 1/

The City of Kitchener, Ontario was named Berlin until 1916 when a plebiscite changed it to Kitchener Ontario, because of war with Germany. I think Washington DC could hold a similar plebiscite today to rename itself Berlin to honor the late 1930’s Berlin Germany look and feel the city exudes today.

I worry that now that it is a war of survival, the Iranian regime will unleash terror sleeper cells to rain chaos within nations against Israeli and US interests, including within the United States. If you think ICE and DHS were bad before, watch what happens when a terrorist attack occurs there.

As Rick Wilson so eloquently said ”Everything Trump touches Dies”. Even MTG learned that even what she holds dear which is true American isolationism was a pawn of Donald Trump’s one sided loyalty.

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The US military is a well oiled machine and extremely capable, but they have to kill a multi headed hydra and that is no guarantee. No defense is static either, I am sure Iran took the lessons learned from the earlier bombing and adapted. That is the nature of warfare.