Other way around. The tea taxes are going down so smugling is no longer profitable.
Other way around. The tea taxes are going down so smugling is no longer profitable.
The idea is that if similar senteces were given to similar protests in north korea or iran or russia etc. There would be huge outrage in the mainstream press calling them authoritarian and totalitarian and so on.
And since repression in the us is a lot more common than exagerated stories on its enemies that those countries are not nearly as bad as the us.
In authoritarian north korea the goverment jails peaceful protestors…
Some people want to dress modestly. Would you feel uncomfrtable if they told you to strip at school?
The us was using opium as a weapon of war against russia and iran. Its well known and the public health concequences in both those countries were horrific
But since mexico has orders of mag itude more state capacity than the taliban their failure to solve opium problem makes one almost certain the us goverment is also behind that.
Its not ilegal in russia. Legality is not a real property of things its the opinion of the guy with the biggest army in the area. Thinking otherwise is
Didnt the pershing ii have a warhead that could maneuver at hypersonic speeds? While it is still a balistic missile and not a glider presumably the materials used should meet the heat requierments of a hypersonic glider? Unless it was all made up and it didnt do what it claimed?