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This entirely depends on your point of view.

We also passively vote on the law by electing the people in charge of passing it. Why not also vote on the people interpreting it?

How else do you want to fill the position for a judge? By a panel of experts? Who decides who is part of this panel? Who decides what the selection process is?

Effectively there is a popular voting process somewhere. The debate is only where exactly in the chain.

“insufficient voltage control capacity” on the system that day, due in part to a programming flaw

Human error not “faulty renewables”

I’d rather prefer both sides losing.

And then a proper democratic revolution on both sides again.

I think I missed it somewhere: What’s TACO?

Looks somewhat underwhelming but on the other hand I am no demolition expert or structural engineer.

Unlikely, but it would be hilarious if some self-proclaimed alpha male found out the hard way that he is in fact intersex.

Thanks, I will keep this in mind should I ever be overcome by the urge to open a door during flight.

They would very much be willing to conquer the Baltic nations if the opportunity shows itself.

I very much understand that but there is no such opportunity for an all out conquest until NATO is no more.

The author that you referred to, does he speak russian? Estonian? Ukrainian?

I don’t know.

How so?

There is zero chance Russia is ever getting away with that

Is there? Given the rather reluctant support of Ukraine, which is about just enough to keep them in the fight, I’m afraid that at least some NATO members would rather give away a symbolic chunk of land than start a military confrontation. And yes, that would be the end of NATO.

An active fight? Yeah, that’s not going to happen. A passive one, though? Might be an option. Carlo Masala recently published his new book If Russia wins: a scenario (No English translation yet). In it, he draws up a scenario where Russia, after defeating Ukraine, annexes a small Estonian town to test NATO’s resolve in the face of a limited Russian aggression. He bases this scenario on the German Re-occupation of the Rhineland, during which German troops had they faced any serious resistance by allied forces would have had to retreat. In the book NATO members are divided and dismiss the Estonians request for help under Article 5.

Well, we might find out soon enough.

They are not backtracking but suspending until the courts have decided whether or not they accept the lawsuit by the AFD against the classification.