Yawwwwwwn. This nuclear vs. diesel-electric debate has been going on since the 1970s that I can remember. The USN went nuclear because of superior endurance - years or decades before refueling is necessary, and no batteries needing recharging - not because the technology is cool.

Anti-Trump DOJ Officials Prepare Attacks On His Appointees
Mollie Hemingway


The Department of Justice, and specifically its Office of Inspector General (OIG), loves to give the impression that its offices are staffed by independent, nonpartisan lawyers whose only goal is to investigate and root out corruption within the department. Records, however, show the watchdog is staffed by Democrat activists eager to use their power to crush their political enemies.

This partisanship has been on display in how the OIG, the DOJ’s internal watchdog office, has gone about investigating Trump’s Justice Department, particularly its scrutiny of two investigations by then-Attorney General William Barr. These IG “investigations,” reports on which are forthcoming, entail analyzing press releases and other communications to see if the DOJ broke the law or violated departmental guidance when it announced its own investigations.

While many Americans wish Trump’s Department of Justice had done far more to root out election problems in 2020, partisan Democrats in OIG say Barr and other Trump officials did too much by even acknowledging the existence of discarded Trump ballots that were found in Pennsylvania during the 2020 election. Despite a lengthy, expensive, and invasive investigation, Trump appointees will reportedly be found to have neither broken laws nor violated DOJ policies, once the report is issued.

According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, partisan Democrats in the watchdog office are also investigating Trump appointees for requesting data from the governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan after they required nursing homes to admit Covid-19 patients into their vulnerable populations, often without adequate testing.

Really.

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https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/15/anti-trump-doj-officials-prepare-attacks-on-his-appointees-during-election-year/

Novocheboksarsk (chemical plant) is about 700 miles NE of Ukraine.

The train derailment is fairly close to Ukraine. Besides the fuel burned up instead of feeding the orcs' invasion (or the orcish economy) a significant railway will be out of service for several days, and workers who could be doing something worse will be tied up in clearing and repairing the railway line.

I'm going to speculate that Estonia's "serious" discussions mean that Estonia considers itself to be one of Putin's next targets of he gets some sort of success in Ukraine. IOW, Estonia would be acting preemptively. Such is my speculation, for which plus a Hamilton you could get a coffee and change at your favorite coffee place.