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Does this show us that AI could or will eventually make organized crime irrelevant or ineffective?

We know that Trump has a high wealth friend who has been interested for many years in Greenland's mineral assets. So let's just start with that as the basis for Trump's intentions with respect to Greenland. Because we know that Trump is always interested in how the money and influence can flow to himself, and never for any platonic, strategic reasons.

And we know that Trump could not finish a single round of Candy Land, much less an ongoing 4 or 5-day bout of Risk, where he could look at a board and still think that Greenland is the true, heretofore unrecognized direct gateway to New Zealand.

So we are basically dealing with a man who could not think rationally about Greenland, therefore making it impossible and dangerous for Greenland and Denmark and Greater Europe to even contemplate resolving this with any level of acceptability to those countries and collectives.

The Greenlanders must continue to howl, not just promulgate platitudes. The Danish and other Scandinavian countries should consider that approach also. And Democrats on the Hill must make their Republican counterparts go on the record as to where they are on this issue, continuously and relentlessly.

As an American, and as one who knows persons in the Maritime trades, I cannot think of a single fellow American or a single conversation or chat where the concept of American hegemony, control or occupation of Greenland was ever mentioned, much less considered as a good idea.

Likely Bezos didn't take into account that those that want higher taxes paid by the super wealthy are not talking about just the theoretical rate but also the actual percentages paid, as opposed to deductions, exemptions, and outright cancellations of taxable categories.

The adage that comes to mind, " Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good."

Also, there's no reason that any single individual anywhere in the world should have amassed or be able to amass a vast fortune that at the a snap of a finger can hire consultants and swing elections, from or to any candidate of any persuasion.

Those two stalwart friends of common experience, Senators Robert Dole and Daniel Inouye, must surely be weeping over this.

That is, strong, protest inside as well as outside of Israel.

Hopefully, this will trigger a larger and quicker shift to the middle or left wing parties and coalitions in the upcoming Israeli elections.

Why do Americans more and more keep needing to consult foreign media to obtain? news and analysis written in appropriately informative fashion and death?

Why do cities and states continue their race to be give-way whores when it comes to courting new businesses through tax forgiveness incentives?

The US politics flair was chosen because this phenomenon is entirely the Trump Adminstration's making.

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What we now have driving nuclear weapon activation decisions is a confluence of subpar academic input from Hillsdale College; Armageddon - Rapture theology; spineless, inexperienced, and/or greedy persons in leadership capacities; a president who couldn't even last an entire round of Candy Land against any random kindergartner, much less even a half a day's worth of Risk.

If he even tried to play Risk, he would just have his attorney general conjure up an opinion that Australia could be attacked directly from Komchatcha, Congo, or better yet, Greenland.

She needs to become a statesman first. She is certainly a politician, but she needs, or could use, additional seasoning.

That said, if she were to run, I would vote for her in a New York minute, and I am from anywhere but New York.

https://newrepublic.com/maz/article/210072/ice-smears-federal-judge-massachusetts-case

We wouldn't be having to have this conversation if:

The Trump administration had properly gamed all of this out, with experienced gamers from Defense, State Commerce and Treasury Departments, and serious academia, instead of just Hillsdale College.

Trump and his administration had gone into this War with the appropriate motive of halting Iran's nuclear program instead of taking off on an adventure simply to distract domestic media from the Epstein files and other flares of the moment.

Trump or whoever is really running the country had ordered the Pentagon to simply disrupt the Tehran power grid, which would have brought an immediate capitulation just like the US did in Belgrade years ago in Serbia, instead of having all of this missile and drone drama and expense.

It's so irritates me that teenagers don't walk around with a book on them.

I always had a trade book (non-coursework) on me until I finished professional school and even after that, I usually had one in the briefcase.

And now I always keep one in the backpack.

If America still had the drive and will to fully fund the WHO and its own CDC, and to bring the U.S. Armed Forces' resources to bear, none of this would have gone outside of this ship.

Thanks a bunch, Trump and Repubs. You own this.

Thanks to Trump and Netanyahu having done so accidentally, the World and all of its leaders and consumers now understand:

No one, not the U.S., Iran, any rogue state, or private players, can prevent anyone from depositing tens of thousands of mines and air- or sea-borne drones in or around Gulf or other choke points,

Middle East and oil politics are simply too intertwined to be capable of long-term, stable predictability and calm.

Insurance and other economic forces will dictate energy source preferences that private, oligarchic, or government policies can no longer manipulate.

The pivot must therefore now come quickly, sharply, and universally to wind and solar.

Thanks Donald.