What IF Donald Trump tries to control the US Military?

@SunshineGirl there is not a one world government yet. The un tries to be. The USA and the UK are sovereign and shouldn't bow to foreign powers.

@Baremine Sovereignty does not mean complete isolation. The UK is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights (which it now proposes to breach). Elected governments in the past have pooled their sovereignty to shape that legal code. It protects the freedom of the individual against poorly-considered interference from transient politicians. Leave the Convention if that is the democratic thing to do, but don't break laws and erode trust with neighbours . . that serves no one well.

@SunshineGirl Only in America!

@SunshineGirl You impress me with your insights! Are you a student or a practitioner of the political sciences?

@JollyRoger Just an interested amateur. I was a civil servant while Brexit was unfolding. Then watched the PM bypass parliament when it suited him politically. There have been some 'interesting' interpretations of national sovereignty in recent times.

@SunshineGirl Do you see a sort of world-wide 'inward' pull toward isolationism? Except for Russia of course.
We're still in 'spending' mode with lots of immigrants coming in to fill gaps in our workforce while young Canadians are still living off the Canadian Employment Replacement Benefit (C.E.R.B.) loans that they received during the COVID 19 lockdowns. Some folks are now using to try to pressure the government into forgiving them - ostensibly to curry favour for re-election.
So.... our immigration door is open as we need the jobs done... I wonder what's going to happen when those people - the ones who decline to work while the job market is still open - will do when jobs become scarce again... Perhaps we'll end up like the USA with a call to expel all the immigrants! Politics is wonderful, isn't it??

I went to interview a politician today... a Provincial one. We had a nice visit, I just a bunch of ideas to boost our collapsing health programs past him with the goal of opening his mind to speaking positively about them if they come up in the Legislature. I too was a civil servant during my career and I found that our political leaders are hungry to have good ideas to talk about as if they thought them up themselves.

@JollyRoger Who would be a politician in such a climate?

The only way I can see the UK job market contracting significantly is if we close our borders and continue to look inwards. Record numbers of job vacancies have pushed up inflation. We have an ageing population and serious shortages of nurses, carers, construction and agricultural workers. Politicians no longer lead. They react superficially to opinion polls and focus groups. They say we should admit only a small number of highly skilled immigrant workers. In fact we need rather larger numbers of moderately skilled workers to care for our elderly and stimulate economic growth

I wonder what motivates people to enter politics nowadays if they are so lscking in original ideas of their own? 🤔

@SunshineGirl You're right on the money.... and you are talking about Canada?? 😜
I wonder if the folks in the USA stop to think what their politicians aren't doing!

@JollyRoger democrats don't think. They are born that way.

@Baremine I'm not sure what you mean. Give me a bit more, please.

@JollyRoger sunshinegirl talking about folks int USA thinking about what their politicians are doing.