Well it would take a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college. That would take a 2/3'rds supermajority in both the House and the Senate. Then 3/4'ths of the state legislatures would have to have to ratify it. It is not in the interests of 38 states to ratify!
But back when the USSR controlled its satelite states in eastern Europe, they planned on pushing further west. They would have preferred to control everything from the English channel and Bay of Biscay to Vladivostok.
Putin's invasion of Ukraine is setting new standards in the field of Russian military incompetence. The top three entries so far:
1. Losing your flagship to a country without a navy
2. Digging trenches in the Chernobyl dead zone
3. Having your tanks towed away by tractors
It would be much easier to defend if they moved their forces from the Belarus borders with Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine to the Russiian side of Russian-Belarus border.
“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The FDA is too slow to approve vaccines for new variants of COVID-19. I'm in the Moderna COVID-19 phase 3 vaccine trial. The vaccines available today are for the original Wuhan variant isolated in January 2020. I got my first shot in early August 2020. No Warp Speed!
Well then the FDA and other regulatory bodies around the world should get boosters against Omicron and other variants fast tracked for approval. I got my first COVID-19 vaccination 6 months after the start of the pandemic in the Moderna phase 3 trial. Why no updated boosters?
I'm hearing more & more reports that Russians are evacing Melitopol. This remains UNCONFIRMED. If true, Ukr can reach the Black Sea, blow the Kerch bridge, & utterly destroy every Russia military unit in southern Ukraine and Crimea. And THAT would be a nation-ending event.