And the US in turn abdicated its separation of powers. A US president lacks the ability to make treaties, or use military force without congressional authorization.
In what world does the president have the authority to annex an autonomous territory from an ally?
The world where he does it and then tries to present it to Congress as a fait accompli. If the security concerns around Greenland are seen as legitimate enough, he’ll get his Democratic congressmen to approve it, particularly as it’s unlikely that it would become a state (too few people).
The core issue is that the current US leadership has abandoned its status as a former trustworthy leader that accepted cooperation and responsibility as key operating tenets.
If anyone threatened to take your home by force if you didn’t sell at his favorite price, the sane social discussion would focus on their uncivil threat and pro-social responses, not on victim blaming “the core issue is that I’ve abdicated my ability to defend my house by force.”
You could have a reasonable conversation about sovereign defense budgets and alliance contributions, but not while you’re threatening the sovereignty of an ally.
And all of this will make American citizens less safe, not more. It’s madness. There’s nothing to be gained here for most people by threat of force or hybrid warfare.
> This is a snapshot of what's gone wrong in acutely, web development culture, and broadly, software development culture over the past few decades. Complexity, provincialization, and discarding improvements in computing hardware.
Taken from the Coolify website (which OP uses for hosting):
> Brag About It. You can impress anyone by saying that you self-host in the Cloud. They will definitely be amazed.
This is the result of a hyper consumerist post Protestant culture in America and the rest of the English speaking countries.
I still cannot understand how people understand the basis behind import controls and security for most things but blow a fuse when it comes to humans entering countries illegally.
Once something becomes political, it becomes intertwined with all the other political issues they're concerned/upset about. Everyone suffers from this to some degree; to many, the only thing they really need to know to form an opinion is their chosen party's stance on an issue.
> I still cannot understand how people understand the basis behind import controls and security for most things but blow a fuse when it comes to humans entering countries illegally
You don't understand why people see a difference between humans and trade goods?
