This is the Victor Orban playbook: Have all mass media controlled by your cronies, who will only talk about what pleases the autocrat.

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Aber ab 2027 hat die Luftwaffe doch F35, die sie dann zur Verteidigung unseres Bündnispartners Dänemark einsetzen kann. Oh wait...

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Oder wie es Upton Sinclair ausdrückte:

"Es ist schwierig, einen Mann dazu zu bringen, etwas zu verstehen, wenn sein Einkommen davon abhängt, dass er es nicht versteht."

Das gilt für die ganze fossile Treibstoffindustrie und alles was damit zusammenhängt. Sie sind nie neutrale Beobachter.

"Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut"

Die Aussagen von Flugzeugbauern zum künftigen Flugverkehr kranken an dem selben Problem wie die Vorhersagen der OPEC zur künftigen Ölnachfrage: Sie haben einen Interessenkonflikt. Fliegen muss beschränkt werden, was es verteuert bis es ersetzt wird.

For herbal cannabis, higher potency it means less smoke is inhaled for the same effect. For cannabis sold as edibles, potency of the flowers is a non-issue as they are sold by THC dosage (e.g. 5 mg). On the black market there is no labeling and no potency regulations. How is that any better?

Their so-called security strategy did not dare name its global enemies, except for democratic Europe. The unspoken part of the 21st century Monroe doctrine that this administration espouses is to allow China to do the same in Asia and Russia in Europe (and never mind about Africa).

The Atlantic publishing a piece of regurgitated 1980s drug war propaganda against the reclassification of a relatively benign substance, whose dangers pale compared to those of alcohol, was not on my bingo card. But then, neither was Trump signing the EO that prompted this!

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That will be a nice Christmas gift to his sponsors in the oil and gas industry. Again.

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Und wer jetzt sagt, die deutschen Autobauer seien in der Krise, weil sie zu viele EVs gebaut hätten: Haben die stark wachsenden Chinesen denn etwa auf Verbrenner gesetzt?

The difference between $1T stock market capitalization and $1.5T is $500,000,000,000. "That will easily pay for a couple of million dollar lawsuits by bereaved families" probably is what the kind of person thinks who considers empathy for your fellow human beings a flaw.

It's illegal under the 1982 UNCLOS, but it's not "piracy" because that's specifically defined as PRIVATE parties seizing ships. When a state actor does it (except in specific circumstances, such as anti-piracy), it's still illegal but you have to call it something different, like "illegal seizure".

While states are free to enforce their laws within their own territorial waters, they have very limited powers outside this (usually 12 nautical mile) zone. They can seize pirate ships or ships of a country with which they're are war or seize ships in hot pursuit, neither of which applies here.
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The US can seize ships in US ports or ban them from US ports if they are involved in sanctioned activities in other countries such as Venezuela or Russia since they have jurisdiction over US ports, but they can not touch them on the high seas.
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