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Over the p-adics, every Galois group is solvable. Does this imply that the quintic (and higher-order polynomials for that matter) can be solved by radicals over $\mathbb{Q}_p$?

EDIT: The original place I learned that the p-adic galois groups were solvable was in Milne's Algebraic Number Theory text (Chapter 7, Cor 7.59).

As was pointed out the comments, I should clarify that I meant to ask 2 questions. Namely, whether the general quintic can be solved by radicals in this context (still no) and whether any given one can be (which I now believe is yes).

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Solubility of the quintic?

Over the p-adics, every Galois group is solvable. Does this imply that the quintic (and higher-order polynomials for that matter) can be solved by radicals over $\mathbb{Q}_p$?