Despite the Biden administration's efforts to plant landmines for Trump to step on, I very seriously doubt Putin is going to react stupidly knowing he only needs to hold out a a couple of months. Putin seems to be the only adult in the room. He will limit doing anything beyond the current operation in Ukraine until Trump is in office. Putin is pragmatic. He wants a deal and he knows Trump does likewise. Zelensky will be forced to negotiate or have the money and weapons flow shut off. That is why the current US regime is trying to push out as much as they can before Trump takes over. The EU cannot fill the gap economically or militarily to keep the Ukraine scam afloat on their own.
I stand corrected. ATACMS have been there, but Ukraine was not allowed to use them to attack the Russian interior - until now. The disputed territories of Donbass and Luhansk being annexed as part of the Russian Federation is not internationally recognized as they are technically still considered part of Ukraine. Therefore the use of ATACMS in these areas is considered an attack on the Russian occupation of Ukrainian territories.
Putin's red line however involved use of these systems to attack the interior of Russia proper and not their use in the Russian occupied territories. Putin made it very clear that they would consider their use to to attack the Russian interior as a direct attack by the US on Russia. As Putin spelled out, the reason is because operation of these systems requires direct American involvement.
Just because Russia declares these areas to be part of the Russian Federation does not make it so - they are disputed lands as they were part of Ukraine. Both sides of this conflict lay claim to those lands and each side has valid points for their claims. That is why they are at war. A peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine would hopefully settle the land dispute issue if agreed to by both sides in this conflict.
Putin already stated that the ATACMS was a red line. Because of the systems complexity, codes, and personnel operational requirements, any use of this system on Russia would have to be done by the US, and that would indicate direct involvement of the US in this conflict. There is no way that Ukraine would be operating this system. Besides, it also says that the US had already been placing the system prior to the announcement the other day. How long would it take to ship the ATACMS and set it up? Sounds like they made the decision to send them some time ago - the public only recently heard about it. Sounds like the administration is trying to plant a land mine for Trump.
There is no doubt that work can be done remotely if one thinks just about the work itself. The risk comes into play because remote access increases the points to which data breaches can occur. It is much easier from a security standpoint to have data more centralized. I fear that our technology that has opened the door for more flexibility in the work place may at the same time be our Achilles heel.
Where state actors are concerned, especially China, remote work is an Achilles heel. If places like China are able to hack sensitive on site facilities like the US government, it is even easier for them to hack off site data due to its inherent lack of security. Think of the ramifications to multiple sectors of our cyber infrastructure, including finance and business. There already has been severe breaches of critical information in the business sector. China has no problems with cyber espionage and outright theft of intellectual property. The effort to cut costs and acquiescence to changing attitudes about the work place may be our very undoing. The recent uptick in breaches from foreign actors may only be a drop in the bucket for what may be coming.
A person has to be very disciplined to remote work. But, I do agree that the idea of working from home does have its advantages. My field unfortunately does not allow that option - direct patient care. Although in medical support areas like insurance billing and coding, there is quite a bit of it now being done remotely. I have a cousin that does medical coding at home. It works great for her so primarily so she can supervise the care of my aunt and uncle who are in their 90s. Have a great day fren.
My understanding is that those weapons require Americans to operate. The Ukrainians lack the specialized training necessary. Putin claims that is crossing the line because that would be direct American involvement in the conflict.
I am not sure I fully understand your inquiry. But, I think this may be what you are questioning.
Senate Majority leader is not a Constitutional position unlike the Speaker of the House, which is a Constitutional office. Majority leader is more of a traditional office that is something handled by the Senate in house according to their own rules and procedures. This quick pick of a new Senate Majority leader was to preempt allowing the new Senate membership to make the decision. Their problem was that they were trying to do this on the DL and word got out about what they were trying to do. The Senate switchboard lit up like a Christmas tree with calls from angry Republicans. What the GOP was doing, although it be underhanded, was something they could do according to the Senate's own rules and procedures. It was simply maneuvering by the GOP to have some control over who the next Majority leader would be while they still would have a say - especially McConnell.
Trump ordering Congress to recess cannot take place until he and the new Congress are sworn in and have authority. Till then, the Congress and administration are still in the driver's seat.
The issue of Congressional recess came up several years ago during Trump's previous administration. Trump's plan then was to fire a bunch of DS SES federal employees because that was essentially the only way they could be forced to leave. The SES (Senior Executive Service) was formed during Obama's term. They are permanent government employees that essentially are insulated from other administrations attempts to fire them. Laying them off via Congressional recess was one attempt to rid the government of these Obama DS hacks. Good old Mitch McConnell thwarted Trump's attempt by refusing to call a recess. The dates from the Q post would apply to that particular incident because Trump was already in the WH - but not to the current situation due to the above forestated reasons.
Bringing Congress to an official recess is very rare because it is a pain in the a**. Most of the time what is called recess is not. Congress essentially adjourns and leaves a skeleton crew in place just in case some emergency occurs. There are several formalities involved to shut Congress down in a real recess and formalities that must be taken to readjourn. This is why they don't do it. Should a crisis occur during a recess it would hamper Congressional ability to act until they were formally readjourn.
Most of us on this forum have had to take a crash course on how our government actually works - something that for many was neglected deliberately as part of our education system - especially for younger Americans. No harm, no foul. It is a learning experience for everyone.
Vancouver especially is like any other US West Coast liberal stronghold. Most of the citizens are progressives. Conservatives tend to be more interior and rural, just like here in the States and those areas are less populated. That would give progressive areas with large population density the upper hand.
Any smart device or appliance in your home that has internet access and is linked to your phone or home computer is vulnerable through networking. The firewalls in these devices is very weak. The guy in the video is correct. The safest thing to do is do not connect a device to the internet. Anything that is connected to the internet can be hacked.
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Admittedly, some Israelis started some altercations after the match by yelling some anti-Islam epitaphs and pulled down some Palestinian flags. The violent beat downs came from the other side. But that was just one thing apart from something else that had been planned in advance before the soccer match. This other violence involved migrants, mostly from Morocco that were chasing Jews down. There were social media posts several days before the soccer match planning a Jew hunt. So it was not a just spontaneous altercations post soccer game like the media first reported. A few independent news outlets got the story out so the media has had to change the narrative they first started to peddle. The same thing was getting ready to happen in other cities across Europe and being spread by social media.
Several European cities are cancelling their Christmas celebrations at local shopping areas because of "health and safety" concerns. All over Europe Ramadan was accommodated, but no such reciprocation for Christian holidays. This is what the Islamists do. When they are few in number they are peaceful and slowly infiltrate institutions. After their numbers become large enough they start to force change through violence and coercive force. Weak government officials acquiesce and kneel to the Islamists out of fear. That is how they slowly take over the countries they invade and turn them into the same hell hole they came from. Appeasement with terrorists never works. If soft power does not give them what they want, they will turn to the sword.
They start with the Jews and then target Christians. After they get rid of the Jews and Christians, then they will go after anyone that is left. So all the commie lefties that protested with them will be targeted at some point. Surprise, surprise - convert or die. Europe is dead already and the US will follow suit if we do not deal with those already here after we shut down the border. They will not assimilate. Western civilization is under threat of annihilation. That always has been their goal. They do not stop until they are either kicked out, or they take over.
He is another deep state fixer. Hell no!