Choose a tag to find specific types of discusisons.
These are currently the most active tagged discussions.
@ISIDEWITH asked…8hrs8H
Cross-border payment methods, such as cryptocurrencies, allow individuals to transfer money internationally, often bypassing traditional banking systems. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions countries for various political and security reasons, restricting financial transactions with…
▲ 422 replies
@ISIDEWITH submitted…10hrs10H
Iran has never made the decision to build a nuclear weapon, despite having at least most of the resources and capabilities it needs to do so, as far as we know. But Mr. Raisi’s death has created an opportunity for the hard-liners in the country who are far less allergic to the idea of going nuclear than the regime has been for decades.The recent exchange of hostilities with Israel, a country with an undeclared but widely acknowledged nuclear arsenal, has provoked a change of tone in Tehran. “We have no decision to build a nuclear bomb but should Iran’s existence be threatened, there will be no choice but to change our military doctrine,” Kamal Kharrazi, a leading adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said on May 9.Today, Iran has thousands of advanced centrifuges and a large stockpile of enriched uranium. This, in turn, has provoked some camps inside Iran to adopt a “might as well” argument for nuclear weaponization. If we’ve already come this far, the argument goes, then why not just go for a bomb?Historically, Iran has felt a nuclear hedging strategy is its best defense against external aggression and invasion. And Tehran may continue to calculate that racing for a bomb would only invite more hostility, including from the United States. Then again, an increasingly distracted and unpredictable Washington might not be in a position to react forcefully against a sudden and rapid Iranian rush for a bomb, especially if Iran chooses its moment wisely.Between the war in Gaza, a possible change in American leadership, and a domestic power vacuum that the I.R.G.C. could step into, it is not difficult to imagine a brief window in which Iran could pull out the stops and surprise the world by testing a nuclear device.
▲ 298 replies
@ISIDEWITH submitted…8hrs8H
The presumptive Democratic nominee denounces Trump as a national security threat. He is “temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility,” and he “has threatened to abandon our allies in Nato.” With this wildly-coiffed albatross around the neck of the Republican Party, a Democratic victory in November is assured.Or at least that’s how Democrats felt in the summer of 2016, when Hillary Clinton delivered that anti-Trump speech (one of many that campaign season). While the polls favoured Clinton, her anti-Trump message was not enough to win on Election Day. Clinton led with a message meant to appeal to the new base of the Democratic Party: affluent, highly-degreed voters. She dismissed pocketbook issues and tossed many Trump voters into a “basket of deplorables.” Rather than moderating on cultural politics, she instead ran to the Left.Despite some notable differences with Clinton’s 2016 campaign, Biden’s 2024 bid may risk falling into a similar trap. With forays into industrial policy and tariffs on select products from the People’s Republic of China, Biden has attempted to address some blue-collar economic concerns. Unlike Clinton, he has not ignored former “blue wall” states in the Midwest but instead directed campaign resources there.On cultural issues, his administration has been far less centrist than the “Joe from Scranton” branding would suggest. He has constantly allowed the progressive vanguard to set policy on identity, abortion, and education. Immigration is perhaps that most visible example of Biden abandoning moderation to appease the activist class
▲ 2615 replies
“Well, he lost the young voters because of Gaza, and the older voters to the open border and cost of living. Even for Bla…”
▲ 2313 replies2 disagree
Proving Biden and his apparatchiks wrong is not the challenge - - the real challenge is remediating the damage done by a…
@ISIDEWITH asked…1hr1H
▲ 217 replies
@ISIDEWITH submitted…6hrs6H
▲ 2013 replies
Our government is far more interested in funding wars overseas than they are in taking care of Americans or giving us ho…
@ISIDEWITHDiscuss this answer...…8hrs8H
▲ 25
@ISIDEWITHDiscuss this answer...…4hrs4H
▲ 14
▲ 15
@ISIDEWITH submitted…5hrs5H
▲ 127 replies
@ISIDEWITH submitted…4hrs4H
▲ 128 replies
▲ 106 replies
▲ 105 replies
@ISIDEWITH submitted…1hr1H
▲ 99 replies
▲ 95 replies
▲ 98 replies
@ISIDEWITH submitted…7hrs7H
▲ 97 replies
▲ 87 replies
▲ 86 replies
