#nonstate — Public Fediverse posts

The city’s unique #nonstate structure gives the #FederalGovernment wide authority to exert #control over #Washington’s affairs, even over the objection of the city’s residents & its elected representatives. The city gained limited powers in the 1973 #HomeRule Act.

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Friday Jul 26, 2024
by Frans von der Dunk

Space Privateers or Space Pirates? Armed Conflict, Outer Space, and the Attribution of Non-State Activities

Link: https://lieber.westpoint.edu/space-privateers-pirates-outer-space-attribution-non-state-activities/

Famously, George Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France at the end of the First World War, quipped that “generals always prepare to fight the last war, especially if they won it.” Such flaws of perspicacity, of course, are not limited to generals. After all, as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr once mused, “prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” No wonder then that, when back in 1945 the Charter of the United Nations was concluded, it mainly focused on efforts to prevent a Third World War from arising along the lines of the Second. Most specifically, the massive armed attacks against other sovereign States and their territories that had initiated the war triggered the baseline prohibition of Article 2(4) >>

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