No, but they are the only vehicle members of the Church of the Crypto Musk are allowed to buy.

By experts, do they mean anyone that paid attention to science and/or history classes in any developed country?

You forgot option C) which is part of Fascism 101: selectively enforce the law to prosecute your political opponents, target minorities, and just have something to hang on people in general just in case.

“Coincidentally” that’s how the War on Drugs™ always worked in the US.

Yes, there’s a trolley problem and it seems pretty clear you picked the lane that ends up killing every single Palestinian.

Like they did in North Korea?

The only thing that surprises me in geopolitics right now is that Iran is not mass producing nukes yet.

Did the hat fit you?

He’s just asking the European right to not make excuses.

It’s completely different, Trump wants cut the interest rates and put at least 10% tariffs on all imports. If he actually follows through the current dollar denominations are going to be cheap toilet paper.

Google doesn’t sell their private data collection. They use it to target ads so it’s the most valuable thing they have (or as they would call it their “unfair advantage”), so selling it directly is out of question. There are multiple data brokers that also have very comprehensive lists that will happily sell it to anyone.

And agricultural products would also be the obvious place for the EU to retaliate too, so if Trump goes ahead with his harebrained plan to impose ridiculous tariffs they can forget about exports as a viable business model.

To be fair, he said he would fix the elections not remove them. Lots of nice places like Russia and Belarus have elections without all anxiety of not knowing the results beforehand /s

It can also be a very conspicuous way of showing that you have more money than anyone should be allowed to have. Rich people love their metaphorical peacock tails.

I’m shocked!!! Positively utterly and completely surprised and shocked!!! /s

“Czechoslovakia is not my problem” vibes. How did that end up?

So having western troops in Ukraine should also be fine if they stop at the russian border right?

More like democracy good, but justice is not a popularity contest.

In a well run country that requires a supermajority of some kind of council picked by different groups like some representatives for the judges, others picked by the legislature, etc. which avoids any group having full control of the courts.

I don’t know. Personally I’m a fan of Piyu style reeducation (or at least a more modern and humane version of it).

Fines need to be payable, otherwise they are a joke. A large chunk of global revenue GDPR-style is reasonable because it really hurts the profits but it’s still small enough that the company can pay it, and it will incentivize the company to change their practices. If the company (or anyone) gets a fine they can’t pay they will just ignore it, so it only makes sense if you want to kick out the company out of your country, in which case you should skip the extra steps.