It’s sized proportionally to the hand size of the commander in chief at the time.

Someone made this if it makes you feel better.

Pretty sure U.S presidents are not allowed to drive themselves. This is an ad

We expected no less. Funny you don’t respect anyone else’s sovereignty.

The art of the gaslight

We are more resourceful than ever so no, I dont think it will accelerate a decline of any given nation. It does highly increase our chances of annihilating ourselves in one go, but that’s another conversation.

An example is when the Suez canal got clogged up during COVID. That kind of halt in the global logjstics is the kinda thing that would have absolutely brought down an empire, but we managed.

Amercia: Time to police your own economic incentives.

Europe: Nukes up

America: no not like that

When the roman empire collapsed, do you think someone living in those times could tell where the collapse started and where it ended? It’s an interesting thought experiment

Edit: or rather where they were in the collapse timeline - of course the collapse lasted longer than a single persons life.

“Sir I did not bring in tons of cocaine across the border, I only drove a boat”. Is essentially your argument.

Now I’m not against what the silk road was initially supposed to be, but this guy took it to a whole new level of fucked.

He has been for a while now, which is actually a violation of the US’ nato obligations. But who care anymore, the US is no longer an ally.

Edit: it also violates a ton of border treaties, and half a doze international agreements the US has benefited from for a long time. But just with NATO:

Key points of the treaty

• The parties agree to settle disputes peacefully
• The parties agree to refrain from using force in a way that goes against the United Nations’ goals
• The parties agree to consider an attack on one of them as an attack on all of them
• The parties agree to consult about threats and defense matters
• The parties agree to safeguard the freedom, common heritage, and civilization of their peoples
• The parties agree to promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area

Threatening Canada violates all of these and then some.

Not just downtime. There should be room for training.

Employers aren’t obligated to invest in you, but then you know how much you should invest in them.

One million seconds is a about 11 days, 1 billion seconds is just under 32 years. People underestimate the difference