I think it's safe to say that none of the other potential GOP candidates would have threatened to invade a NATO ally.

Sorry, Trump insisting on annexing Greenland is not a "change in strategic goals", it's a toddler's petulant obsession. The US already had carte blanche from Denmark to do pretty much whatever it wanted in Greenland.

Besides Trump, I doubt there's another official in the WH who wants this. They are all just humoring the demented old man.

It's the Mercator projection's fault

If Airbus could beat Boeing, it should be possible for an EU consortium to beat AWS, if they can execute well (big if).

The rule of law no longer exists in the US. The regime is bragging that an officer who killed a woman on camera won’t even be investigated. And even if there were an investigation or even a criminal conviction, it would just be voided using the executive pardon power. Everyone committing federal crimes on behalf of the regime has de facto absolute immunity for this reason.

How is that a “backdoor”? It was just an (outrageous) administrative decision.

The regime can blackmail Amazon just by threatening their government contracts (as well as other Bezos businesses like Blue Origin).

Good governance (stability, competence, responsiveness) is independent of democratic rule, and is generally what ordinary people care most about.

Indeed, KL-divergence can be seen as the difference between the average number of bits required to arithmetically encode a sample from a given distribution, using symbol probabilities from both the original distribution and an approximating distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullback%E2%80%93Leibler_diver...

Andy Serkis's audiobook of The Hobbit is pretty amazing.

His full Lord of the Rings audiobook is likewise incredible.