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usonian

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3. Tariff day.
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 10:10 AM
Apr 30

Last edited Wed Apr 30, 2025, 10:52 AM - Edit history (1)

Edit to add:

In my previous post, it was somewhat ambiguous whether those foreign nations would act as adversaries or "Friends of our orange dictator."

It is possible that they would act together, since Trump "left the barn door open" and even that Putin would enter the fray and turn on his useful idiot. He has a history.

All bad scenarios are possible when incompetent cronies are in charge.

In the third case, people with leverage step in to do the right thing. We can encourage them to do so with speeches, posts, exhortations, calls and messages, and demonstrations. That is our leverage. Our actions may be uncoordinated in a physical power sense, but there is power in our collective will to do good as each can.

There's the true story of Stanislav Petrov, a Russian who received a launch code for a retaliatory missile attack. He alone correctly concluded that the alert was erroneous, preventing a nuclear disaster.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24280831

He did the right thing.


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