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oakfarmI wonder if I have understood the following correctly, that the US constitution says that the president can’t veto a declaration of war? The three Baltic states are always mentioned as Russia's second target after Ukraine. So one thought is that Russia in Januray will think: “Our boys are in the white house, lets invade, kill, torture, rape, and deport as many Baltic people as we want”. But if it’s the congress that’s declaring war, they still can declare war on Russia, no matter how much the president and the vice president yell about it? The pentagon will say: "No, that's the constitution - time to blow some stuff up and kick some butt!"
Btw in January Sweden will have NATO-troops, in the Baltic state Latvia.
Unrelated, the celebrity death that so to speak has affected me most has been the more obscure celebrities. Now it was the doctor, writer and translator Salomon Schulman who recently died. One coincidence was that Schulman studied to become a doctor simultaneously and in the same classes as my dad. Therefore it became personal for me. Still, one can write some words about Schulman, his mother survived Auschwitz, his father survived gulag. That’s actually connected to the first part of this entry, war and dictatorships.
Also, I haven’t had time to be here. I haven’t read anything here in some weeks.
Btw in January Sweden will have NATO-troops, in the Baltic state Latvia.
Unrelated, the celebrity death that so to speak has affected me most has been the more obscure celebrities. Now it was the doctor, writer and translator Salomon Schulman who recently died. One coincidence was that Schulman studied to become a doctor simultaneously and in the same classes as my dad. Therefore it became personal for me. Still, one can write some words about Schulman, his mother survived Auschwitz, his father survived gulag. That’s actually connected to the first part of this entry, war and dictatorships.
Also, I haven’t had time to be here. I haven’t read anything here in some weeks.