The USA and the war inside. The situation in the morning

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The Portland case shows how little the U.S. government is now creating a jurisdiction. On Sunday, US President Donald Trump announced that he would send 300 national guards from California to the big city in Oregon. The day before, a judge had actually prohibited the US President to send the National Guard to the city.

“This is a nation of constitutional law, not the law of war,” judge Karin Immergut. The US district judge was appointed to office by Donald Trump in 2019 and warned of the consequences of a mission. There is no evidence that the recent protests against the procedure of the ICE officials reached the extent of a rebellion. The order of the US President is based on false claims about nightly unrest, said Wing Government. The country threatens to overthrow into a military rule.

Military rule could be exactly what Trump follows. Already in the past week, the US President fought that the military should use the big cities as “training grounds”. ES is “also a war” – a “war inside”, he continued. Los Angeles and Washington have already been the destinations of the National Guard, the next step is Chicago, a city that has been threatening Trump for weeks with the sending of the National Guard.

His threat quickly became a reality. At the weekend, Trump sent the national guard to the metropolis on Lake Michigan. Most recently, there had been strong protests in the city, and shots on a driver also fell. Minister of Homeland Protection Kristi Noem joined the president and explained that Chicago was “a war zone”.

JB Pritzker, a democratic governor of Illinois, contradicted the presentation and subordinate the Trump government to bring about a targeted escalation. “You want to create a war zone so that you can send even more soldiers,” said Pritzker. With the “war zone”, Noem justifies what Trump has announced: Chicago is to be a training area from then on.

In Oregon, Trump had to accept a bitter damper late Sunday evening. Judge Immergut had that for the time being neither from California nor another US state of troops from the national guard may be sent to Portland. It is a victory for the Democrats who had also sued the sending in California. Whether Donald Trump can be stopped is another question.

Kiel, Frankfurt, most recently Munich – drones of unknown origin in the sky are increasingly flying over Germany. They circle over military bases or power plants, they endanger the airspace near airports. Is it sabotage or espionage? Pure provocation or even an attack?

In order to be able to analyze the risk faster and to take the right measures quickly, Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) wants to set up a drone defense center. In the future, the Bundeswehr should also be able to help with the defense against unknown flight objects. Pragmatic proposal or door opener for the use of the Bundeswehr inside? They discuss this star-Politics heads Veit Medick and Jan Rosenkranz.

We come to something shallow: as a child I was fascinated by escalators. I enjoyed running up with friends. I was scolded by my grandmother if I didn’t stop on the escalator, out of worry that I could tumble down. I have not wasted any thought that escalators already exist. Or would you have known that 100 years ago a escalator was used for the first time in Germany?

However, it is not a German invention. Just a quarter of a century before the installation in Cologne, a escalator with movable stages was presented for the first time at the World Exhibition in Paris, it became a world success. What often comes across as gray and cold does not have to look compulsive. My colleague Tobias Schmitz started looking for the most spectacular escalators in the world – and also found a picture of the first from 1900.

In a few countries, women get as few children as in Italy. Laura also wrestles with her mother – her story shows why so many decide against young people.

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