30 minutes is generous. I’ve watched the aisle get trashed in 5 minutes when I took my son shoe shopping for school last year. We were the only ones who put things back.
Getting students to interact with you (the instructor) on ANY level is nightmare fuel for introverts. I say this as the instructor AND a lifelong introvert (when I not teaching my topics I love).
This is how many new religions get going ironically. The key is that right now it's a cult. It has to get out of cult status by opening up and appealing to the masses. You can see that Scientology has that problem, it's grown but it's not open to everyone and it still acts like a cult. It'll be an ~~interesting ~~ terrifying hundred years if it continues.....
Did the US provide direct training in how to destabilize and overthrow a government? Because they have teams that can provide that training. It’s routinely used in the Western hemisphere. If they gave the coup leaders anti-insurgency training, that’s an entirely different situation.
The problem is probably more coincidental. US training makes units better. There’s a base level of thought in the US military though which you can describe as “you follow orders of the duly elected representatives of the US government.” If you don’t instill that base thinking, all the training does is make military units that are going to succeed at coups.
So is this article dealing with the reality of trying to rewrite a foreign military’s thought process and it’s relationship to its civilian government? Does it discuss the difficulties in doing that while trying to train them for counterinsurgency operations? If it’s just making a casual (not causal) connection between the coup leaders and the fact that at some point those leaders had US training, it’s propaganda.
Nigeria, is literally right next door, gone through the same democracy-coup cycles in the past AND had had a functional democracy for the last 20+ years. What about that part of the world makes you think democracies can’t work?
But that isn’t how governments are supposed to work. If you don’t like a guy, vote him out next election. Nigeria should know this, as it did what Niger is currently doing 30 years ago. The reason ECOWAS is intervening is because of the amount of chaos that the junta will bring to the region. They’re trying to regulate their own area of the globe. And if look at Niger’s history, you’ll see why. They’re on their SEVENTH REPUBLIC. Because they set up a republic, then a general has a hissy fit when the duly elected leader pisses them off and they go a couping. Then all hell breaks loose for a few years until they do it again. Nigeria, in particular, should be looking to help keep the seventh republic stable.
Strong disagree. NATO has Article 5, which would provide for mutual defense. The USA will give Ukraine weapons and as much help as they possibly can to win the war, but they will not join Ukraine as a participant in hostilities. The USA can’t guarantee Ukraine’s territorial integrity unless it’s willing to send fighters which is the exact thing the USA is avoiding right now. It’s deliberately limiting the scope of help so that they don’t start a nuclear war with Russia. And these guarantees are more of a “you can eventually join” and “we’ll give you as much information as we gather and any weapons we can afford, but you have to fight” than a NATO for Ukraine.
Sadly, Ukraine won’t be admitted to NATO until the major hostilities are over. If Ukraine can beat back Russian troops to outside their borders, then NATO will let Ukraine join. The missile attacks that Russia will use after they lose the last Ukrainian territory will continue until the day Ukraine accedes to NATO, then Russia will switch to as many annoying fly-bus as they think they can get away with.
I bet even they don't know the specific number. But certain conditions like being in a hurricane-prone area or zones not performing the maintenance on structures that help deal with natural disasters would probably cause those people to no longer be insurable as it predictable that they would pay out more money to more people when things go sideways. This is information for their stockholders, so they don't get sued for not maximizing profit.
30 minutes is generous. I’ve watched the aisle get trashed in 5 minutes when I took my son shoe shopping for school last year. We were the only ones who put things back.