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При этом ему непонятно (и никто ему этого не говорит!) что есть разница между иммигрантами и коренным населением.

Русские в Латвии могут (ну или могли до 2011 года) уехать в Россию в любую минуту и никогда уже не учить никаких языков (а Латышский очень не прост!) а латышам куда с родины податься?!

1. Raze the grave of Erich von Manstein --- to finish denazification.
2. Hang Gerhard Schröder, Angela Merkel, and Olaf Scholz --- to show that selling your country to Russia does not pay.
3. Send all the heavy weapons they own at the moment to Ukraine immediately, and 50% of all newly produced heavy weapons from now on --- Germany has no hostile neighbors and no overseas commitments, while Ukraine is fighting for its survival.

Thus, it is not surprising that any government exercises more power than it is entitled to by law and tries to expand it all the time.

The idea behind Separation of powers is that various branches should keep each other in check.

E.g., whenever the SCOTUS declares a law unconstitutional, we have a demonstration of a legislative over-reach attempt, stopped by the judiciary. Whenever that happens, we see that the system is working, and should rejoice.

On the other hand, when the opposite happens, it could be good or bad, depending on the law.

However, the recent outrage is the decision that reverted a previous decision which said "the government cannot do X", i.e., they can do X now.

Some SCOTUS decisions are wrong and should be overturned.

But granting the government powers that it has been explicitly denied before?! No way!

PS. I not interested in arguing whether abortion is murder (nope) or should be legal or not (maybe). This is not about abortion, but about government power grab.

What do you think international observers would say about these "features"?

• the only pre-requisite for voting is registering, which requires no ID
• the only requirement for voting is a signature, which requires no ID
• one can vote by mail, which requires no ID - and nothing at all

Do you think the observers will validate the elections?

PS. It is not enough to be honest, one must also look honest.

This already happened before: during the Italian aggression against Ethiopia in 1935, the League of Nations imposed sanctions on Italy. However, the sanctions excluded oil and access to the Suez canal, because Italy warned that these will be considered causus belli. Thus the sanctions were ineffective.