It probably isn't an exaggeration to say we've hit full watergate, in terms of a crisis in the government that has a fairly significant chance of toppling it.
it is pretty definitely bigger than watergate, although frankly i feel like iran contra was also bigger than watergate, at least in terms of like, how much it actually mattered
Because he wants the PR before elections, he wants to send a crew up on a rocket that hasn't been tested or man-rated yet, inside a space ship that hasn't been tested or man-rated yet, within two years
Su-24's are attack craft (designed to target ground and sea forces, rather than other aircraft), and though they were unarmed there's literally no way for the ships to know that. This is a thing the russians like to do. They're basically playing "diplomatic incident chicken".
Naval member checking in: flybys are unusual, but nothing to put too too much stock in. It's just posturing. As you read articles about it, this soundtrack will be a helpful guide
Bonus round: if anyone brings up Iranian small craft pestering warships like it's a New Aggression And a Huge Deal, laugh at them, and direct them to literally any sailor who's ever been in the gulf or transited the strait of Hormuz
Am I the only one cautiously excited about the crewed EM-1 thing? It's a feasibility study. They're also talking about pushing the date back to accommodate the change
And frankly this indicates a renewed interest in manned space flight, as well as accelerating time-lines. The Orion is planned to have crew eventually, just not this soon.
I am not cautiously excited because we're talking about the Trump administration here. Their priorities in doing this have nothing to do with what's the safe and correct way of doing things.
Fair, but I got more faith in NASA than the military tbh. We're also not sure this is a Trump thing. I'll remain cautiously excited until more details emerge.
60+ professional organizations have signed a letter organized by | OpenTheGovernment.org to the Office of Management and Budget requesting that OMB “issue guidance to federal agencies, reminding them that they are required under the Paperwork Reduction Act to give public notice before removing online government information.”
It looks like they're allowed to remove info, but they're not legally allowed to remove info without providing "adequate notice." Looks like they're supposed to back up the old version with NARA, too, but I don't know if that's a law. It can be damned hard to get any agency to cooperate with archives even normally.
I made my older son pay attention to Clinton's impeachment, not because it was sordid, but because it was history. My younger son's getting it with Trump.
yeah, this is the biggest shit in my lifetime, or at least the biggest thing that raised a public ruckus. I mean, the Iraq war was a big deal after the fact, and 9/11 had massive consequences, but that wasn't really politics per se.
I wonder if the travel ban being economically terrible might actually make Republicans rethink that approach, since "it's morally fucked up and wrong" does nothing
"Moreover, a Baltic nation is gathering intelligence on officials in the Trump White House and executives with the president’s company, the Trump Organization, out of concern that an American policy shift toward Russia could endanger its sovereignty, according to a third person with direct ties to that nation’s government." well.
The destabilizing influence created a massive refugee crisis which was immediately jumped on and spurred by nationalist across the globe that happened to be Putin friendly
>starts to answer the question by talking about his ~awesome victory~
yeah, sounds like a trump answer, alright...
ISIS appears to me to have been a tool to destabilize the Middle East in the absence of a strong al-Qaeda