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by imbokodo 2858 days ago
Cuba pointed missiles at the US because the US was openly gearing up for one of its many invasions of Cuba, shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. The Soviets put nukes there because the US put nuclear missiles into Turkey.

The US government has declared they want to destroy the US. It has been the US interfering in Iran, not vice versa.

The US banned Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling from leaving the US, only giving him one shortly before his second Nobel prize to avoid international embarrassment.

Playwright and former Marilyn Monroe husband Arthur Miller was denied a passport, blocking him from seeing the Crucible open in London.

Civil rights icon Paul Robeson was denied a passport, explicitly to deny him the opportunity to talk about the state of national oppression of those of African descent in the US.

Also NY Post reporter William Withy Jr., Corliss Lamont, Howard Fast, Rockwell Kent...

In more recent days one can not drive a car in the US without a license, travel a plane without one, take an Amtrak train without one or ride a Greyhound bus without one. The US absolutely exercises control over where its citizens can go, many of these restrictions are new.

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You don't need a license to travel Amtrak. In many cases you don't even need a ticket when boarding the train. I routinely buy mine after it has left the station.
You might want to send a note to Amtrak's web site, as they say their policy is otherwise https://www.amtrak.com/passenger-identification
Hell no, I love the low friction travel. But I haven't been asked for an ID on Amtrak since the mid 2000s when they still served booze on that line. On the line I use most frequently they never ask for an ID. And a ticket for tomorrow works for today. Almost nothing nothing in that faq is adhered to on my experience.
I doubt there are many (if any) countries where a drivers license isn't required for operating a car.
And usually the license is good, because it requires training and if you can't pass that then you probably shouldn't drive.