How is it even legal for the US to wash chicken with Chlorine ? Sounds like so ridiculous.

She won’t see an actual jail unless she seriously fuck-up, most of the sentence is suspended and as the remaining time is under two years she has the right to request house arrest or any other alternative sentence.

So the remaining sentence is that she can’t run at next presidential election (provided that she doesn’t get something else in appeal before the election).

Obvious reminder that if you or I would have stole 4 millions Euro we would see an actual jail.

You mean that if peace negotiation fail war will come ? No shit sherlock ?

Joke aside, The way trump treated DPRK and Iran during his first term was like praise people who build their own nuke despite embargo, and punish the one who negotiate the ability to develop civil nuclear infrastructure

There is a law saying that for corrupted politicians a temporary election ban is a possible sentence. This women and her accomplice stole 4 millions Euro, that’s a lot of money. Not allowing her to be elected for 5 year sounds like a way to protect taxpayer money for money. It’s also not unique to politicians, French law can also ban someone from managing a company (Executive who stole money, or ignore regulation leading to serious accidents).

Moreover, Le Pen, and a lot of right wingers, are the one who pushed law for harsher punishment and appeal not postponing the sentence so they’re getting a taste of their own medecine.

Finally, While a dozen of Rassemblement National politicians are banned for election, the party isn’t banned. It’s not the first not the last time that a politicians who could have run for president ends-up found guilty of stealing taxpayer money leading to not being able to run for election. There is a long range between a serious potential candidate and a president. if the RN doesn’t play too much Game of Throne to get the candidate position, they may even come in a stronger position for 2027 election

Finally, Buying foreign made weapon isn’t wise strategically speaking. Not only jobs goes away, but if things get bad, you may struggle to get “spare parts”.

I understand that for some stuff you may have no choice (Electromagnetic catapults for aircraft carrier sounds like a US only technology) but in many case we do.

Because it’s interesting for science, worst case we de precision Higgs physics, best case, we finally find SUSY, extra dimensions or whatever.

Among all the technology developed using LHC money 30 to 20 years ago, the most famous would be the Web (Sharing documents as Web pages linked through hypertext link) but it also gave a huge push to superconducting magnet, vacuum and even detector technology. With everyday application in health (e.g. Imaging) but also enabling research in other field (Particle accelerators are way more common than you think)

Finally, I am rather competing with Russia/China using particle accelerators than guns and tanks

So it looks like a way better investment than fighter jet or tax discount for billionaires

I believe that in French law, for sentence up to two year, you have the right to ask for an alternative to jail. And considering that she isn’t homeless and has a steady job, she’ll get house-arrest out of business hours. (But it’s not just for politicians and billionaire, just that the average convict doesn’t have a house and a steady job, so their case is kinda empty at this stage)

But loosing her right to run for election is a pretty big one.

It’s France, tons of politicians have been found of guilty of “stealing taxpayermoney” without much impact on their carreer.

let’s say she’s banned from running to election for 3 years, true, she misses the 2027 presidential election, but she’ll be back in 2032, and can still have a party leadership position, can still run to 2029 European election.

This is the worst part (for US), it tooks them decades to build a solid and trusted relationship with the western world, and within 3 month, all of that is gone.

It’s not Canada or Denmark which will suffer the most from-it, but US themselves

Kinda weird anyone’s worried I’ve seen sims of eurofighters vs Su-57 felons and the eurofighters beat Russias newest stealth fighter with even numbers.

Can you elaborate one what kind of simulation you’ve seen ? I wouldn’t count on streamer playing DCS as an accurate intelligence source. And I wouldn’t assume that when Russia send patrol close to the border of NATO (or NATO does-it close to Russia) they don’t use 100% of their plane abilities, as soon as you turned on that top-secret radar jammer or have used your vectorial thrust in their full extent you can expect other nation to build counter-measures.

Also, even assuming it’s worse than Rafale/Eurofighter, it’s way above Insurgent who mounted a machine gun over a toyota pick-up that western armies are used to fight against. We’re in a political movement where western European public opinion aren’t accepting much soldier coming home in a pinewood box. While it’s a a handful of soldiers per year, mostly special forces, it doesn’t drag too much media attention nor political reaction. But simply shooting a truck convoy or ammunition warehouse, and killing a dozen of 20 years old kids who joined the army to learn a trade and not to see actual combat (Spoiler alert, if you join the army, even as a cook or an accountant, you sign a contract where you accept to die in combat) I can see a huge political shitstorm coming, especially considering the weight of pro-Russian politicians in western Europe (Ms Le Pen, We see you)

Do you have a source for that ? Wasn’t it mostly a large army but with obsolete equipment ? Let alone the whole nuke that France and UK do have

For a while, every company who wanted to so some Virtue signaling was giving Tesla rather than Mercedes to their executive as a way to tell the general public we’re environmentally conscious that part of Tesla’s marketing is gone for good.

Moreover, and most-likely a bigger factor in the sales drop is that, every car maker has now an electric offer. Let alone all the advertising for BYD who really tries to enter the European market. So mechanically Tesla sales are dropping

I am a bit concerned by brit media obsession with naming any suspect. Sounds a big breach of innocence presumption. And considering how severe is the accusation (if true it can wait 6mènth for a verdict, but would avoid a defamation if not)

It’s surprising that it’s not standard in any country and that it’s not managed at the municipal level.

Where do I evacuate in case of natural disaster? Is there a dangerous factory which may explode/ release toxic products nearby? How high is the flood risk? What about forest fire

These info should be easy to get for everyone. Statistically speaking some citizen will (unfortunately) need it this year

While the actress has some notoriety, huge part of the international trade relies on short term work visa. When Airbus builds a new factory in the US, or That a US factory chooses German industrial robots, you need to send people on short-term work visa to kickstart it.