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Dawn LaGrone's avatar

But will he comply? And what happens, when he refuses to comply, what’s next. Dems should be writing Project 2026 and taking it to the ppl

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Lukium's avatar

This is just a 2 billion dollar bill on contracts already completed. It makes no sense for Trump to make this the case where he defies the courts.

Will that day come? Maybe. I think it's more likely that SCOTUS continues to block some minor less ideologically filled moves like this, while rubberstamping the more ideologically laden moves so that we get slow-cooked into fascism rather than getting there with a SCOTUS violation.

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Roslyn Reid's avatar

Since we weren't sure what to expect, this is really encouraging from SCOTUS. Maybe they are finally growing a brain.

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Lukium's avatar

I think this is a distraction. Here's why:

This case related to paying for contracts that essentially had already been completed. So obviously, there was no way SCOTUS could possibly side with flagrantly violating contracts that had been completed by not paying them.

The real issue is that the programs are all still being cut down, meaning that there just won't be future contracts like these, and that our soft power around the world will be annihilated, which is terrible for multiple reasons, from an expected rise of Anti-American radicalization to enabling other countries like China to gain influence using their Belt and Road initiative.

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Roslyn Reid's avatar

That is a good point, & China will. But I just can't wait to see Putin when he discovers that Xi has been playing him like a cut-rate Asian fiddle.

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Lukium's avatar

It would not surprise me if at this point Putin has not himself already become a China tool himself. Just total speculation here based on the fact that Russia just seems to be way too weak now (sure, it has nukes) to be making a real play for a tri-polar (US, Russia, China) organization of the world. I think it seems more plausible that we're just seeing Russia as an arm of China at this point.

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Roslyn Reid's avatar

I agree. And they won't nuke Ukraine. If they were going to do that, they would have "accidentally" bombed Chernobyl by now. All they really did there was deke--nobody's going to do anything to despoil the assets of the country they want to take over.

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