A grand jury declined for a third time to indict a D.C. woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent during an inmate swap with ICE – a rare loss for federal prosecutors that could foreshadow further trouble if the case goes to trial.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office said in a filing Monday it would move ahead with charging Sidney Lori Reid with a misdemeanor for the alleged assault outside the D.C. Jail in July. A magistrate judge had given prosecutors until Monday afternoon to secure an indictment against Reid or see the felony version of the assault charge dismissed.
A grand jury declining to indict three times on the same case is a warning the evidence may not stand up at trial, according to attorney Christopher Macchiaroli, a partner at Silverman Thompson Slutkin White who previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the federal prosecutor’s office in D.C.
This is all what if stuff, but it’s worth noting that Hitler basically financed Germany’s reconstruction (and more importantly Germany’s rearmament) by borrowing heavily, notably from Jewish financiers and from the Soviet Union (a nearly unknown aspect of the non-aggression treaties between Germany and the USSR was an enormous loan). Had Hitler not opted for war and genocide like he did, he would have faced other major problems such as the collapse of his entire economy (The Wages of Destruction is an excellent read on this subject).
Another fun fact about the non-aggression treaties was that ironically enough they included military technology transfers from Germany to the Soviets. For the most part, none of the stuff Germany handed over to Russia resulted in anything significant - with a noteworthy exception being some advanced 37mm antiaircraft turrets that had been earmarked for installation on the Bismarck, the battleship that was rather famously crippled by fucking biplanes.
Yeah it’s kinda a subset i of the old “how could the Germans win WW2? By not being Nazis.” joke. The German economy was already starting to struggle as early as the annexation of Austria and may have very well collapsed if they had been denied Czechoslovakia, there’s a reason they were basically looting everywhere they invaded rather than just taking over the factories.
Also in the defense of the Bismark having more AA wouldn’t have helped, the reason they didn’t do well against the swordfish naval biplanes is because they didn’t have the right ammo and their guns weren’t calibrated for planes that slow they were calibrated for planes like the spitfires naval sub model. It’d be like some dude in a with a ballistic plate getting shit canned by a blunderbuss, under no circumstances did the engineers consider that a viable risk.