Trump47 Foreign Policy Catch-All | Vance in Munich

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Not just halt funding, but stop work:

“…Rubio’s guidance, issued to all diplomatic and consular posts, requires department staffers to issue “stop-work orders” on nearly all “existing foreign assistance awards,” according to the document, which was obtained by POLITICO. It is effective immediately.

… The guidance could open the U.S. government up to civil liability as lawsuits could be filed over unfulfilled contracts if the terms are deemed to have been violated, the current and former officials said, although at points it says the decisions need to be “consistent with the terms of the relevant award.” …”
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“…….the guidance could open the U.S. government up to civil liability as law suits could be filed over unfulfilled contracts…..”

That’s viewed by MAGA and especially by Project 2025 as a feature and not a bug.

It’s part of the “break the government” agenda at the heart of Project 2025.
 
Paine said:
He wants something that will leave a mark after he’s gone. Something that can’t be undone easily. Something he can put his name on. Unsurprising given his personality and past.
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I’ve been saying the exact same thing, and I think he’ll utilize uniform military to make it happen, if economic warfare doesn’t.
 
Could trump legally buy Greenland through ex. order or would he have to have congressional approval. I would think congressional approval.
 
Callatoroy said:
Could trump legally buy Greenland through ex. order or would he have to have congressional approval. I would think congressional approval.
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If you use the purchase of Alaska as a template, first a treaty must be executed between the US and the current owner (Russia in the case of Alaska.) Then the US Senate must approve all treaties (which they did 37-2 in the case of Alaska.)
 
farce© said:
If you use the purchase of Alaska as a template, first a treaty must be executed between the US and the current owner (Russia in the case of Alaska.) Then the US Senate must approve all treaties (which they did 37-2 in the case of Alaska.)
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That was when the Constitution mattered. Duh…
 
Callatoroy said:
Could trump legally buy Greenland through ex. order or would he have to have congressional approval. I would think congressional approval.
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I think that would be up to Denmark, as they are the owner of Greenland. And I don't think they have any interest in selling it. I know that probably means nothing to you and your ilk however. Go ahead, try to take it from them. It'll be yet another riveting page in the great MAGA legacy, which future generations of schoolkids will learn about in history class as "the dark days of America."
 
Disaster spreads in Rwanda and Congo, as Rwandan M23 militias seize regions in Congo, and victimization of women and children continues

GIFT LINK [Not an easy read, includes stories of gang rape] —> https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/th...64?st=XpMH5b&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

“… On Tuesday, the rebels still were exchanging gun- and artillery fire with the Congolese army in parts of the city, trapping more than a million civilians inside Goma and threatening to open a bloody new chapter in a decades-old war set off by the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Rwandan President Paul Kagame and “urged an immediate ceasefire in the region, and for all parties to respect sovereign territorial integrity,” the State Department said.

Senior U.N. officials said streets in Goma were littered with bodies and hospitals were flooded with hundreds of wounded. Several World Food Program warehouses had been looted, and officials warned of severe shortages if emergency assistance wasn’t restored in the coming hours. Swaths of the city were without power and water, deepening what was already one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises.

Some 1,500 miles away in Kinshasa, Congo’s capital, mobs angered over the city’s fall set fires and besieged the U.S., French, Belgian, Ugandan and other embassies, as well as the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping force.

Observers and diplomats fear that the M23’s gains could encourage the rebels and Rwanda’s army to advance on Kinshasa in an echo of the 1990s wars, which sucked in several other Africa countries and led to the deaths of more than five million people.

Rwandan officials have denied that the country has deployed troops inside Congo and say its military is defending Rwanda’s territory and security. …”
 
The irony is that the dollar losing reserve status would be better for US trade than tariffs. Of course Trump doesn't know the first thing about economics, but it's funny because his own treasury secretary has been calling for the dollar to lose reserve status.

There's a view among economists -- including Bessent! -- that reserve currency status keeps the dollar permanently higher than its equilibrium value, and that this overvaluation hurts American competitiveness. I'm unsure whether I buy this story (there's much to recommend it, but I also see multiple problems and I'm far from the only one), but if it's true, that means losing reserve currency status would do much of the work Trump wants from tariffs, and mostly inflation-free.

Of course, when you're calling Mike Flynn to ask him whether a strong dollar is good, this point will not be understood. Far too subtle and complex.
 
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