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out of all of the DOGE firings I think the IRS is the most damaging, even more so than the pentagon. if the federal government's ability to collect tax is depleted, that is going to have very severe consequences down the road.
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Nothing like the GOP laying landmines for the next administration.
 
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siegecrossbow said:
They are extremely anti-Trump, many calling for Trump to be killed or tortured in extremely graphic ways. If I were working for DOGE I’d personally track which ones are in the US and ship them off to Guantanamo Bay for legitimate terrorist plots against the head of state.
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White MAGA: those irrelevant banana is too soft. Let them alone they eventually will bruise themselves then rot away.
 
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Wrought said:
Trump has started his purge of the US military, firing the JCS chair+USN CNO+USAF vice chief. More to follow according to him, starting with every branch's JAG, the top military judges. Has the potential to create lots of chaos, naturally.

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Man, reunification is in sight

When US goes full internal disarray by Trump actions, that's when China should strike. Hopefully military weapon factories have been ordered to speed up production.

Rare opportunity. Lets hope Trump does a Stalin-like purge..
 
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His reversal of American policy makes America seem mad, but his idea makes a lot of sense by itself.

1. Ukraine did fuck up; it should have realized that it's a Slavic nation next to Russia so turning against Russia will be nothing but pain and stupidity. The lowliest kind of people are those who fight against their own blood; Ukraine deserves to be ended, no mercy.

2. Trump realizes this is a war that the West cannot win. The longer it drags out, the more it will drain American and Western resources that should be dedicated to the tech war against China. The longer it drags out, the more total Russia's victory will be and the worse the final lines will be drawn, so he needs to take the pain and end it now... if Putin will allow it.

3. There will inevitably be some warming of relations between Russia and the US, (then the EU as they slowly accept defeat), which will be some relief from the nonstop Sino-Russian entwinement over these last 2 years that is terribly horribly bad for any American/Western future attempt to squeeze China (or Russia).

However, all this might be too little too late. Russia likely already sees that it can get whatever it wants in negotiation or keep taking it for free and the bonds formed between Russia and China will be extremely difficult to cut/reduce given both countries have seen what their combined powers do against the West. Another problem is that Trump can't get around the incredible loss of confidence this will cause in America's leadership of the West, which is exacerbated by his attacks on them whether it be policy threats, tariffs or direct annexation. That contributor to the problem is entirely self-inflicted.
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I actually find Trump's strategy more grounded in reality than the Democrats' "Turbo America". Biden was ultra aggressive in all issues and he objectively:
1- Greatly harmed American allies' economies like Japan, the UK and Germany.

2- Completely destroyed the ideological leg of the American hegemony. Nobody thinks the US is the enforcer of the international law or peace anymore. Some knew this already but now even the normies know. Their media finally lost its credibility too

3- Whatever collaboration he achieved with Europe is now going to the drain because they managed to lose to Trump. Biden shouldn't have run but his narcissism said otherwise. I also think Trump is dismantling NED and USAID because these places were turned into neoliberal propaganda agents by the Democrats. We are seeing in the documents being exposed that they were funding LGBTQ foundations in even Africa.

4- NK, Iran, Russia, China axis is a reality now. This alone would cause Kissinger to lose sleep at night. I find the current Republican efforts to reverse this delusional.

5- Sino-Western technological colloboration is done for. And it is not going work out in the way Western chauvinists think it would.
 
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Two senior officials who worked on semiconductor export controls have been purged from DoC. No word on their replacements.

The Trump administration has forced out a senior Commerce Department official overseeing export restrictions on China, three people familiar with the matter said. Borman, the senior-most career official in export administration, helped execute initiatives during Trump's first term and under Democratic President Joe Biden to curb Beijing's access to prized semiconductor chips.

The three people, who declined to be named, also said Eileen Albanese has left the agency, with two adding that she had also been forced out. Albanese served as the longtime director of the office that processes licenses for semiconductors and other national security-controlled items.
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Deino said:
This was clearly staged!
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I think the place where Germany ended up currently is largely related to this disconnect from reality.

BoraTas said:
4- NK, Iran, Russia, China axis is a reality now. This alone would cause Kissinger to lose sleep at night. I find the current Republican efforts to reverse this delusional.
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China is out of this group. It's friendly with Russia, but countries are not allies, as there are no obligations.
China is an ally to DPRK, and sustains it out of obvious strategic necessity. But it is not especially friendly.
DPRK is quite suspicious of China, and Beijing is quite ... discontent with Pyongyang behaviour.
NK to Iran are partners, but no more; their defensive link is Russia.
Otherwise, there is no way no particular reason one can help another.

What may look like a web of connections is really failed blitz to collapse Russia onto its own adventure, which backfired to historical proportions, and forced Moscow to look away from the west for at least a while(Russia noticed that Asia exists). Otherwise, there are few interconections in this group.
Moreover, the group is sorta weird: Russia has some program(mostly spite), but doesn't have enough weight for leadership; neither it really likes where it is currently. China has weight, but doesn't have program (or desire) to claim leadership. Especially in this group, which will come at the expense of western markets.
Beijing power vertical(红士大夫) has thousands of years of historical heritage - north is just too important to alienate. But otherwise, chinese literati and business circles would happily exchange Moscow for Europe and US.
 
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