One can safely assume that this will never happen, either because Republicans will stop it, or it will be revered by the courts shortly afterwards. Or becuase it's just more hot air.
You are probably correct, but I wouldn’t underestimate the demand for less government spending.
The Pentagon also doesn’t have a lot of recent headlines about wisely managing the incredible amount of resources given to it, so public opinion may be with the Donald on this one.
Sure, but why do it in a way that is patently illegal and ineffective. Usually these sorts of things are negotiated, you don't just arbitrarily slash and burn.
That this is the DoD will likely provoke a strong reaction.
> Focusing American power on its own hemisphere would allow Trump, in other words, to square many circles: to make America great again by making America’s imperial footprint smaller, to reduce the tax burden on the rich by cutting into the apparatus that a global imperium required.
So, (IMO) the idea is ceding Europe to Putin (long the plan, which included sabotaging NATO), and the rest of Asia (and presumably Africa) to Xi, cutting the defense budget and giving most of it (and education and health care funds) to the rich in the form of tax cuts.
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[ 6.0 ms ] story [ 47.7 ms ] threadThe Pentagon also doesn’t have a lot of recent headlines about wisely managing the incredible amount of resources given to it, so public opinion may be with the Donald on this one.
That this is the DoD will likely provoke a strong reaction.
> Focusing American power on its own hemisphere would allow Trump, in other words, to square many circles: to make America great again by making America’s imperial footprint smaller, to reduce the tax burden on the rich by cutting into the apparatus that a global imperium required.
So, (IMO) the idea is ceding Europe to Putin (long the plan, which included sabotaging NATO), and the rest of Asia (and presumably Africa) to Xi, cutting the defense budget and giving most of it (and education and health care funds) to the rich in the form of tax cuts.
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