The clearest knock-on effect is the lower the cap celling, the more cheaper oil is available for China and Germany doesn't like it.
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In the US Constitution, the federal law supercedes the state law under the Supremacy clause:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Therefore the federal law always supercedes the state law.
For the Supreme Court, it determines whether or not a law is constitutional and that always involves the state vs federal law contention. So you are correct in this regard.
As for Little Rock Nine, you are right in this regard. The Arkansas governor used the unrest as an excuse to deploy the National Guard to de facto ban black students from going to school. Looking back it, I admit that wasn't the correct example. I'd say a more apt example of federal authority openly superseding that of the state is the Sherman Booth case in 1854. That case involved the Supreme Court citing the Supremacy Clause to dismiss the state court's decision to release Booth from the US Marshal's custody.
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Most Russian oil production is in Central Asia or the Far East. Any production in the Black Sea at this point is a rounding error.
The smaller deposits you see in the map closer to Europe are mostly depleted fields. The big one is the one in the middle. Yamal. The one north of Mongolia only started being explored relatively recently so it is still a pretty new field.
This is why, Europe's talk about not needing Russian oil & gas is going to backfire on them. If you look at it, the biggest field, the one in the middle, is about equidistant from Europe and China. About same distance from Yamal to Beijing as from Yamal to Berlin. Once Russia builds oil and gas pipelines into China, which they so far have refrained from doing, that oil isn't going to go back, or if it does, it won't be as cheap that is for sure. Oil & gas prices in Asia are more expensive than in Europe contrary to what you might hear Europeans say. So the notion they will be getting it isn't as certain as they think.
Europe better start exploring for oil & gas in their own territory or they are screwed. The Mediterranean so far has been mostly untouched and I doubt it doesn't have some in it. But for the sake of not messing with tourism and fishing so far it is untouched.
The smaller deposits you see in the map closer to Europe are mostly depleted fields. The big one is the one in the middle. Yamal. The one north of Mongolia only started being explored relatively recently so it is still a pretty new field.
This is why, Europe's talk about not needing Russian oil & gas is going to backfire on them. If you look at it, the biggest field, the one in the middle, is about equidistant from Europe and China. About same distance from Yamal to Beijing as from Yamal to Berlin. Once Russia builds oil and gas pipelines into China, which they so far have refrained from doing, that oil isn't going to go back, or if it does, it won't be as cheap that is for sure. Oil & gas prices in Asia are more expensive than in Europe contrary to what you might hear Europeans say. So the notion they will be getting it isn't as certain as they think.
Europe better start exploring for oil & gas in their own territory or they are screwed. The Mediterranean so far has been mostly untouched and I doubt it doesn't have some in it. But for the sake of not messing with tourism and fishing so far it is untouched.
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Canada committed "culture genocide", so their false accusation against China is really a reflection of their own guilt.
Turkey won't sanction Russia.
Interestingly, oil is not the only thing that can be explored in Saudi Arabia.
Turkey won't sanction Russia.
Interestingly, oil is not the only thing that can be explored in Saudi Arabia.
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US is inching closer and closer to some sort of civil strife or civil war lol. Nope. The US military and its bases fall under federal jurisdiction, so state laws aren't followed. This is a normal procedure since the federal law always supersede state and local ones. Look up the Little Rock...
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Oh my God, what idiots rule us in Europe.
And this "brilliant" idea to bare their torsos comes right from Boris Johnson...just imagine this body without clothes.
Problem for G7 and US partners is that they are caught in cycle of reactions. Reactings to China initiatives with repeating high profile meetings, photo opportunities, rhetorics and grand schemes with little tangible results. Their actions are getting very predictable and are giving the impressions that China maybe doing better than the collapsing authoritarian state they claimed to be.
Problem for G7 and US partners is that they are caught in cycle of reactions. Reactings to China initiatives with repeating high profile meetings, photo opportunities, rhetorics and grand schemes with little tangible results. Their actions are getting very predictable and are giving the impressions that China maybe doing better than the collapsing authoritarian state they claimed to be.
Well after seeing this photo I now fully understand Trudeau's "breast" comment
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Oh my God, what idiots rule us in Europe.
And this "brilliant" idea to bare their torsos comes right from Boris Johnson...just imagine this body without clothes.
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I find the way they settled themselves down at the table real funny. Biden was first to be introduced, seem lost was standing behind his chair while others were taking their seats. Scholz and Usual were already seated before Biden take his. Later all were told how to sit right in relation to the table.
As we talk about building infrastructures, guess who are the biggest builders.
Of the world's 20 biggest infrastructure building companies, China has the top 6, 8 out of the top 10 and 14 out of the top 20. EU has 6, and none from the US, Japan or S Korea.
Surprised the US has fallen so low by neglecting her infrastructures in recent years, and hence her infrastructure builders also.
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