Trump has agreed to give Saudi Arabia civilian nuclear capacity. It is widely reported that: “Under the agreement, Saudi Arabia will receive nuclear power reactors and potentially a facility for enriching uranium locally.” Civilian nuclear power requires enriched uranium. The capacity to enrich uranium for civilian reactor fuel, can be used to further enrich uranium until it is bomb-level enriched, producing plutonium and other deadly isotopes along the way.
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LSMFT! Lord Save Me From Trump!
Justice for Adversaries, Immunity for Allies: America’s War on International Justice
Pull up your electric bill. Somewhere in that number, you are paying for a building you will never enter.
So wrote Sina Toossi and Nancy Okail recently in the Nation. Their words start opening a deeper level of understanding, one that I’m groping for. They go on:
Stephen Miller articulates Mr. Trump’s (and Hegseth’s and Putin’s and Netanyahu’s—almost everything argued here applies to them also) worldview in a few simple words:
The most powerful moments of the World Cup did not happen only inside stadiums. They happened in restaurants, city streets, neighborhood bars, national parks, and conversations between strangers who realized the person standing across from them was not a stereotype. They were a human being.
An ancient proverb warns that a double-edged sword wounds not only its intended target but also the one who wields it. Critics and constitutional scholars increasingly invoke that metaphor to describe what they view as the evolving relationship between the Supreme Court and the Republican-controlled Congress. They argue that, by gradually conceding portions of their constitutional authority to the executive branch, both institutions have helped create what some describe as an “Imperial Presidency”—one possessing powers that now threaten not only America’s constitutional democracy but also the very institutions that helped create it.
When word came down that USAID was being dismantled in Nicaragua, I was sorting through old documents amid the chaos of the mission close-out. On the desk next to mine sat a book abandoned by a colleague: The Dictator’s Handbook, by political scientists Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith, which lays out, in plain and clinical language, how dictators actually operate.
“These are not social Dumocrats, these are hardcore, godless communists.” And they will: