It's meant in the way that it's the only thing they've got of actual value. It wasn't meant as an absolute statement about every little iron deposit that the nation has.
Due to the way the borders between China and the Soviet Union were drawn, there's ethnic Russians born in China, and ethnic Chinese (mongols, uyghurs, etc) who were born in Russia.
One dirty piece of history on the insurrection act. It can't be triggered most of the time except by states requesting help. But in 2007, an amendment was put in a defense bill that changed it so that the President could act without state approval. It passed. But when people (including governors) discovered it, there was a whole wave of resistance and it was repealed maybe a year later.
Ioffe is, like the ridiculous fedora-wearing chickenhawk Max Boot, one of those Russian immigrant Jews who's been nursing a weird little hateboner for the country of their birth since forever, and who pretend to be "national security experts" based on having written a few columns for Gentleman's Quarterly.
Let's be honest, with enough political capital and the right circumstance none of that shit matters. If the majority of governors and senators were from the same party or at least politically aligned with the president, the threat perceived to be great enough, and no fear of electoral backlash then the President could easily just ignore every law on the book and start exterminating citizens by the millions. What you can say is that it's way easier for the Canadian president to go full dictator than it is for a US president.
So would Putin be planning to kill all the Jews in Ukraine? Open literal death camps and gas them?
They've had some the best propaganda too. The hohols should take notes on how to look like the sympathetic underdog. Also as an American of non-bootlicking extraction, I have to give them props on the flag.
Equally I could say that you need to state your case better. But when you get to high school you'll learn.
By second Holocaust I mean by attempting to kill every Ukrainian and non-Russian person that is still in Ukraine right now, alongside any that are in other Russian territories.
Abraham Lincoln did just that in 1861. during the civil war He was able to simply ignore rulings of the Supreme Court and he was backed up by the army in this. The weakness in the system was ultimately that the supreme court has no power to enforce its decisions if the executive branch refuses them.
Girls, take your gay slapfight elsewhere.
The chances are zero, Putin sees Ukraine as Russian clay along with the people.
the baltic states are a giant swamp and there are major natural strongpoints in the way, like novgorod,
What motivation would there be for doing that? Very, very few wars are about eradicating the enemy state's entire population.
The only one holocausting anyone is Zalincki by forcing all men 18-60 to stay and fight in a hopeless situation at gun point.
