Ukraine gave up those nukes in exchange for security assurances. If Russia is going to go back on its assurance, then Ukraine should be able to go back to the nukes. Fair is fair.
As a former SSR that held nuclear weapons on its territory before 1968, they even oughta be free and clear with respect to the non proliferation treaty.
When you enter the United States, customs "inspects" all the stuff you're bringing back. If it's more than $850 worth of stuff, then you have to go to the cashier and pay a tax.
The tax is a percent of what the stuff is worth. The percent rate can depend on what type of goods it is, and what country it's coming from. There are massive tables to look this stuff up.
The stuff you carried out of the country and are now bringing back with you doesn't count toward the $850 limit.
If you're shipping stuff in but not traveling with it, there is no exemption. Tax applies right away. You also have to hire a guy called a broker to help you with the CBP paperwork and to submit payment.
So let's say somebody is importing sugar from the Caribbean, and there's a tariff. They have to pay a percent to the feds every time they ship in some sugar. They raise the price they charge on the sugar to cover that. Then sugar from Louisiana looks more attractive on the store shelf because it's cheaper.
Who pays? Whoever is shipping the goods in pays, but they make it up by charging more for the imported products.
Why do it? Usually, you want to make some domestic industry more attractive by raising the price of the foreign competition.
In the sugar example, sugar is more expensive to farm in Louisiana because people get paid more, and the equipment is more expensive. If there wasn't a tariff, people might stop farming sugar in Louisiana entirely. That might make some people sad. On the other hand, all Americans would be able to pay less for sugar without the tariff.
If you think you want to be more prepared for a nearer-peer conflict, you might want to get your B2 crews some real combat sorties. Kind of like a college football rent-a-win game before the conference season starts.
It's a risk because the Spirits are basically capital ships of the air, but it may be a worthwhile trade-off.
Your oath of allegiance is to the United States, not to Donald Trump, Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris. You have a duty to obey lawful orders issued under the authority of the commander in chief. But it is your duty to disobey unlawful orders.
NCD these days is a mixed hodgepodge of NATO propaganda, US defense industry propaganda, laughing at wacky military shenanigans around the world, and pornographic degeneracy involving military aircraft and other vehicles.
NCD started as a spin off from Credible Defense, which is a community where all articles have to be well sourced, arguments well reasoned, and citations are required. NCD has exactly none of those things.
The -V variant gained the Viper callsign. I don't think it's correct to call anything before F-16V "viper."
Unlike many other military aircraft, Wikipedia does not have a complete accounting of every F16 in service--merely saying "4,500+". So it's a fair guess that there are still some non-Viper Falcons knocking about somewhere.
If it's a federal life sentence, then surely it should be "federal prosecutors in Virginia," not "Virginia prosecutors." Confusing as hell. I thought this life sentence was in state court with a parallel case in federal court.
That land used to have nothin much on it, so it was cheap land, and the property taxes were low.
30 million was spent on building the private wall. I don't think this money came from the land owner. (This is the crowd funded Trump Wall, right?)
With the fancy new wall on it, the property is now appraised at around 20 million (or maybe whatever it was plus 20 million). Whether it's 75 times or 100 times what it was before is not super important. The point is it went from not much to quite a bit.
Property taxes went up in accordance with the new valuation.
Property owner is probably not wealthy enough to pay the taxes, so big picture he can't continue to own the property.
Some airlines nowadays are trying to sell the exit row seats at a premium as an upgrade.
We should also mention that if you are uncomfortable with sitting in the exit row, federal regulations require the airline to reseat you in a different row on request. You don't have to provide a reason why.
Polaris goes in and out of North Star status on the 26,000 year precession cycle. So for the duration of humanity (let's say 100,000 years), there have been decent chunks of time where it's not in use.
Yep. Linux is a total pain in the behind to write applications for, because of API and ABI instability. Just ask notable Linux desktop application developer Linus Torvalds.
Trump ordered the assassination of the top IRGC general when he was in office the last time. Biden has done nothing similar with Iran. To Iran, that's a big difference in US foreign policy.
Ukraine gave up those nukes in exchange for security assurances. If Russia is going to go back on its assurance, then Ukraine should be able to go back to the nukes. Fair is fair.
As a former SSR that held nuclear weapons on its territory before 1968, they even oughta be free and clear with respect to the non proliferation treaty.