Under Bob Gates, the culture has shifted a bit. Back then, the Defense Department had a knack for spending outlandishly on far-fetched programs: laser-equipped 747s, lightning guns, quarter-weight tanks that could stop bombs with data. Prompt global strike first came to prominence during Donald Rumsfeld's tenure at the Pentagon. A multipolar planet - that's less likely. But what happens other countries follow our lead, and start assembling their own conventional ballistic missile stockpiles? Will Pakistan and India be able to assure eachother that their intentions are pure? How and Israel and Iran? Perhaps a unipolar planet can survive an American global strike arsenal. (And maybe, as commenter "Almanac" notes, the Russian and Chinese radars are functioning well enough to tell the difference.) Maybe. can put enough safeguards in place to persuade Moscow and Beijing that America's conventional ICBMs aren't nukes. The prime minister told the newspaper, the relevant legislation will be presented by the end of the year, at the latest.Maybe the U.S. The EU is reassessing how aggressively to approach the rule-of-law crisis in Poland after Morawiecki told leaders his government will dissolve the controversial mechanism for disciplining judges. While the bloc’s leaders discussed the challenge at their summit last week, heavyweights such as Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Emmanuel Macron called for restraint. His belligerent tone comes after Poland won some respite in its escalating row with the bloc over the country’s unilateral decision to reject the primacy of EU law, undermining the legal order in the 27-nation union.
The commission has threatened Poland with sanctions after the country’s top court this month ruled that key elements of EU law were incompatible with its constitution In a move to ease tensions in the long-running dispute, which has raised fears of a Polish exit from the EU, Mateusz Morawiecki promised to dismantle by the end of the year a disciplinary chamber for judges that the European Court of Justice found to be illegal, it also said.īut he warned that if the European Commission “starts the third world war" by withholding promised cash to Warsaw, he would “defend our rights with any weapons which are at our disposal".
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