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Marton Sunrise's avatar

Excellent analysis, thank you

I doubt Donnie and his cabinet nominees know where Syria is.

It is a good time to make life difficult for the US, Donnie's first three months will be chaotic.

The current forecast for the Congress House majority is GOP 220 vs Dem 215.

As the super high-IQ Donnie has promoted three GOP House reps out of the House, for at least the first three months of 2025, it will be GOP 217 (220 - 3) vs. Dem 215.

Consequently, the GOP cannot lose even one vote, as a tie in the House (216 vs. 216) is a loss, and there is no process to resolve ties.

Two of the 2025 House reps voted to impeach Donnie back in 2019 and retained their seats this time despite Donnie campaigning against them, so they are unlikely to support any extreme Trump initiatives. Then there is the usual mixture of Budget hawks, defense hawks and Ukraine fans, and not fans.

This Congress the GOP has proven they are incapable of governing, they have passed the fewest bills in a Congress session since it started almost 300 years ago.

After all of Donnie's talk of isolationism and America First I was surprised he threatened BRICS with sanctions.

Anway he is pushing on an open door as the last BRICS meeting showed no interest in an alternative currency to the $

I assume he knows this and is just showing his internal audience he is a "strong man".

I hope the rebels can use the air defence systems they captured and will locate them where they will be effective.

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Roland Davis's avatar

This is going to end badly. The advance will be held up, the front will stabilise and then Russia will spare a few of its resources to bomb the enlarged area under rebel control week after week, killing even more civilians. That's a few less resources dedicated to destruction in Ukraine. but not much.

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