This situation would be if politicians were interested in ending the gwot as soon as possible. This would also be a situation where the us had the 75th ranger regiment to secure the Pakistan border so bin Laden could not escape. How different would the us war in Afghanistan be?

What if crusades happen again?

Italy + Poland + Spain + Portugal + USA vs entire Islamic world.

For example, let’s say you owned municipal bonds and owed property taxes to the local government. The local government then defaults on the debt. Could you then say, “You owe me $10,000 in bond payments, I owe you $10,000 in property tax payments, we’re both even, and therefore I don’t have to pay you anything”?

If it’s the federal government defaulting on its debt, then we probably have bigger problems. But state and local governments in the US often do actually default on their debt and go bankrupt.

Here is one example of how such an agreement might look like

Russia and Ukraine agree to freeze the conflict along the current frontlines (so Ukraine gets to keep the land they gained in Kursk), and Ukraine agrees not to join NATO for 20 years. The Indian Army agrees to police the border for the next 20 years and deploy at least 100,000 troops at any given time for this purpose. In exchange for doing the policing, the Indian Army is paid:

• 400 million dollars every year by the US Government for the next 20 years
• 400 million dollars every year by the Russian Government for the next 20 years
• 400 million dollars every year by the European Union for the next 20 years
• 250 million dollars every year by the United Kingdom for the next 20 years

Additional Considerations

The amount could either be indexed to an inflation metric that all participants agree to use, or it could increase by a certain fixed percentage, which could be 2% on the lower end and maybe 4% on the higher end.

This could be a much cheaper arrangement as opposed to having the European countries deploy troops directly. Rather than having a cash payment in dollars, they could decide to instead have it be an equivalent amount in weapons or in commodities such as oil which India imports. Since India is expanding its domestic arms industries over time, the payments could initially be in the form of weapons and then shift to something else such as commodities or actual cash payments.

What are your thoughts on this? Feel free to contribute your own ideas!

Basically the name. What would the new government/surrounding politics be like?

So let's say that mexico wants to show that it doent speak English unlike the other 2 powers in north america and quebec also wishes to be distinct from anglophones so the two unite to become distinct from the english of usa and canada, with quebcois french and mexican spanish being the offical languages. What would life in this new country be like? How would canada react to losing quebec to mexico? How would the quebecois and Mexicans get along with each other in the union?

He wants to be #1 at everything, why not as the most litigated human on Earth? It would make great headlines.

Would trump have remained the Teflon orange? How would the nation and world react and respond. Would Trump still be able to run in 24? And how do you think Trump would have responded?

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I'm not sure if this really belongs here, so sorry in advance.

To be more specific, about 1,300 legionaries.

After tests are taken, studies completed, vaccines given, and the Romans given a very thorough history lesson, what would happen to them? Would they become citizens of some country? Which one? Or would some country cede them a small piece of land? What do you think?

Thanks in advance, I'm writing a book with this scenario.

With all the terrorist attacks that are going on at this moment in the UK and Europa as a whole. I often think Europe is way to soft. And often wonder how someone like (iron) Lady Tatcher would tackle the problems we face today mostly terrorism.

Lets say in 2020 Trump doesn't run for re election and the republicans have to pick a nominee.Who would win out of these candidates however likely they are to run.VOTE

Rand Paul-Kentucky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Paul

Marco Rubio-Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Rubio

John Kasich-Ohio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kasich

Mike Pence-Indiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pence

Ted Cruz-Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz

Vice President: Rahm Emanuel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel

Secretary of State: Robert Gates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates

Secretary of Treasury: David Adelman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Adelman

Secretary of Defense: Michèle Flournoy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le_Flournoy

Attorney General: Ted Wells

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Wells

Secretary of the Interior: David J. Lane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Lane_(ambassador)

Secretary of Agriculture: Eric Lander

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lander

Secretary of Commerce: Regina E. Dugan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_E._Dugan

Secretary of Labor: Bernie Sanders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders

Secretary of Health and Human Services: Josette Sheeran

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josette_Sheeran

Secretary of Education: Ronald Lauder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Lauder

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Norman Foster (let’s just say he’s American citizen)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Foster,_Baron_Foster_of_Thames_Bank

Secretary of Transportation: C. David Cush

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._David_Cush

Secretary of Energy: John Holdren

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holdren

Secretary of Veterans Affairs: John McCain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain

Secretary of Homeland Security: Porter Goss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Goss

Chief of Staff: Elizabeth Warren

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: Gina McCarthy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_McCarthy

Director of the Office of Management and Budget: Gail J. McGovern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_J._McGovern

Ambassador to the United Nations: Max Baucus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Baucus

United States Trade Representative: Michael Froman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman

Pot, meth, heroin, lsd, molly, acid, etc.

These are billion dollar industries almost entirely because the government doesn't think we're smart enough to decide what we put in our bodies, but if we just suddenly changed that, the value of the drugs would drop like a rock. it might single-handedly cripple the business of dozens of drug lords in a single day.

Sure consumption would probably go up for a while, but nowhere near enough to cover the drop in price from everyone freely being able to sell it (assuming a system where they receive a license and a marked territory to punish those dispensing deadly doses).

Imagine it like prohibition. Saying no one can have it and making it so only criminals can get it for you, makes money solely for criminals and puts people in places where illegal stuff happens, but if there's no profit to be made by sneaking it across the border or avoiding cops, use and deaths caused by it could decrease by a wide margin.

Honestly, I'm not even sure by what right the government has to tell us we can't have pot.

more specifically, who do you think would run this year?

If this happened, could they affect the outcome of the election? Would the Clinton campaign have any recourse?

The Office of POTUS becomes so tainted with scandal and corruption and also, the people running for President are all so venal and deceptive, that the Armed Forces take over the running of the country.