On the supply-chain, truck-driver shortage thing, it’s certainly true that it’s a problem across the developed world. Here in the US we’re not just seeing a truck-driver shortage but a school bus-dri… (View Post)

On the minutiae of UN membership criteria, it would indeed be possible for the EU, if the member states and UN agreed, to adopt sovereignty and join the UN, and the EU27 would neither lose their own … (View Post)

Agree entirely. All the “quantum” and “cyber” and other stuff mentioned is simply window-dressing or is happening anyway. It’s interesting in if you do some googling just how many different military-… (View Post)

I’m still trying to see just what the Aussies are getting from this deal, other than an upgrade from diesel- to nuclear-powered subs (which to be fair, could be a big plus as AFAIAA nuke-powered subs… (View Post)

Probably they get an outsize travel allowance. There’s an interesting case up in Alaska, with similar distances involved, where a state senator is unable to get to Juneau for senate meetings as there… (View Post)