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I'm afraid that Ukraine will become another perpetual place of war and unrest as peace is impossible unless the Crimea is restored to Ukraine and anyone believing Russia would agree to that is deluded.

Has any other President had similar problems having his cabinet-members endorsed by the Senate?

Puerto Rico is about to have another referendum on whether to apply for statehood, become independent or keep things as they are. As always before, the last alternative is almost 100% certain to win.

Russians should have stayed away in the first place. Whatever trouble they are about to face following their hapless decision to intervene they thoroughly deserve it.

In the aftermath and hysteria following Diana's death they almost renamed the Heathrow airport Princess Diana international airport. Fortunately, sense returned before they made any such decision.

He is easily the internationally best known Canadian PM since ... Pierre Trudeau. Perhaps well known for all the wrong reasons but known nevertheless.

How many posters on this site are old enough to remember Trudeau? I mean Pierre?

Conscription is no longer usable method of defence policy. Modern warfare is not based on how much cannon-fodder a country can afford to sacrifice.

Happens everywhere really these days. Orwell was so accurate in his book 1984 except that he got it about 30 years wrong. People don't know what's going on and the media is full of propaganda and if you point this out you get called a Putin-troll, the name-tag they have invented to silence the dissenters.

I guess what you need is an election-result whereby one party gains most votes while another party gains the majority of the seats. Under the FPTP-system that is entirely possible. Other than that you will keep on saying that the issue is not important or urgent.

Once you get out of FPTP you don't want to get back. The New Zealanders are unhappy with their electoral system of mixed PR and single-member constituencies but in a referendum whether to go back to FPTP they totally rejected it.

In European PR-elections this is avoided by setting a threshold how large a proportion a party must gain votes in order to get representation. The threshold could be set at anywhere between 2-5% but 5% is the usual benchmark. That way you ensure the proportionality of the outcome of the seat-distribution compared to the votes cast nationally but avoid parliament getting too fragmented with minor parties having 1-2 seats.

So, the US justice-system has proved to be Trump-proof? Unlike we are made to believe, I'm sure most lawyers were very happy when Trump got elected. Why wouldn't they have been? A lot of work ahead to be expected and a lot of money to be charged.

Judging by the outcry Trump has created during these two weeks and the two months before after he was elected one would be excused to think he has declared himself a dictator who has cancelled all future elections and has declared himself a president forever. Only that kind of belief makes sense to the ferocity of the protests he has caused. As if there is not a next time.

You can both support and oppose the existing system on the same grounds. Namely, the opposers of the system claim that it bolsters the dominance of white middle-aged middle-class men at the expense of minorities. That exactly works both ways as a reason to oppose the system and to support it depending on your outlook. However, as long as there are only two main parties which get a combined share of the votes of 95% the FPTP is the clever system but as soon as there is a third party or even a fourth party or even more each of which gaining at least 5% of the votes, the system becomes very capricious.

People in Alanya and Marmaris may disagree with you.

Norway is a very rich country. There is only Switzerland in Europe which is comparable to Norway in that respect. To quote Norway as an example how the standard of living in Europe is higher than on the American continent is similar like quoting a country like Bolivia when trying to make a point how poor people are on the American continent. Ok, a poor analogy but you get what I mean, don't you. Every year a lot of low-skilled workers from Finland move to Norway to do some boring menial jobs such as working at fish-factories etc because the locals can't be bothered as the pay is so low by their standards but certainly very good by the Finnish standards. As for the rest of Europe surely the standard of living in Canada is higher than it is in Britain, I guess as I've never been to Canada, and it most certainly is higher in Canada than in Finland. Our socialist utopia is crumbling to pieces and in the 2020's we will have poverty not seen since 100 years ago and there will be serious unrest too. lohocomes ev

If you promise that you will build a wall that's an easy to promise to keep. Just build a wall. If you promise to make your country great again or promise to create economic growth that's a bit more difficult promise to keep. Therefore it is wise to keep the promise which you can easily keep.

Good time to buy shares of construction companies specialised in building walls.

If you name something after a person then at least that person should be dead. Otherwise it seems like cult of persomality.

I'm surprised that nothing seems to have come out of this incident. At least not yet.

Even in normal circumstances the American Presidential-election campaigns strat ridiculously early but it could be that Trump's Presidency is going to be so tumultuous that the campaign for next election could start very very early indeed. If he seeks re-election, unlike usually with incumbent Presidents, he may face a serious challenge already in the primaries from the fellow Republicans.

Does any other country than the USA have its Israeli embassy in Jerusalem instead of Tel-Aviv? One of Trump's first orders was to make that move.

Trump would be foolish to carry out very adversarial policies as if he didn't realise that he only won because of the mechanisms of the electoral system.

Hopefully President Trump realises that he is where he is now as President only because of the quirky electoral system and acts accordingly not to fuel the division of the already divided nation.