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Apr 5

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Trump’s Hidden Agenda
Will tariffs be the president’s most costly con yet?

By: Dan Rather and Team Steady
Apr 4
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The big story today is Donald Trump’s tariffs and their deleterious effects on the global economy.

Markets are tanking. Economists are reeling.

The head of the Federal Reserve is saying these tariffs are likely to raise inflation and slow economic growth.

Some big names on Wall Street are talking about our teetering on the front edge of a recession.

The rest of us are scratching our heads. What’s the end game?

(Traders on the NY Stock Exchange reacting as stocks plummet (credit: Getty Images).

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Trump claims the tariffs are simply a way to raise capital — and, he predicts, force goods to be made in the United States, which would make them tariff-free.

Economists will tell you that’s not how tariffs work.

Tariffs are a tax,
paid for by anyone buying anything from another country — everything from iPhones to avocados.

In other words, just about everything will cost more.

He’s implied that we will collectively share this prospective pile of cash.

History says we won’t.

Sometimes you don’t need “60 Minutes” or Woodward and Bernstein to tell you something isn’t right.

With a few years of reporting experience, I’ve learned not only to follow the facts, but also to listen to my gut.

- My gut is telling me we are being lied to.

Something’s very off with Donald Trump’s tariff pitch.

Wednesday, Day 1 of the Trump tariffs, was dubbed “Liberation Day” by the president.

In less than 48 hours, it has come to mean that millions of Americans are being “liberated” from their retirement funds.

Check your 401(k). Dread ‘em and weep. The S&P 500 lost 10% of its value in just two days.

Sure,
the markets aren’t buying Trump’s claims, and economists think what’s happening is insanity, but there seems to be something more insidious at play here.

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First, remember Congress, not the president, was given the power of the purse.

It should be Congress that enacts tariffs.

Historically,
Congress has given that power to the president only in cases of national emergency. Where’s the emergency now?

Senator Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, called this latest power grab by Trump a “five-alarm fire.”

“Congress made a decision some time ago that in an emergency situation, the president should have the power to enact a tariff in … a war or something like that.

But the problem is this president is defining emergency as whatever he thinks it is.

There’s no emergency.

What Congress needs to do is pull that power back,” King told The Washington Post.

But what if it isn’t just a plan (no matter how bonkers) to make America richer? What if it is actually about amassing more power?

Just as universities and law firms have recently done, this could be about Trump forcing private industry, key institutions, and foreign governments to bend the knee.

Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, has a theory, and it’s as frightening as it is plausible.
He says the tariffs aren’t economic policy. They are political weapons. - He explained his theory on social media.

Because he did such a good job of it, here is a lengthy excerpt.
facebook.com/share/p/196wwW…

“This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense. That’s because they don’t.

They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.

“You see, our founders created a President with limited and checked powers.

They specifically put the power of spending and taxation in the hands of the legislature. Why?

Because they watched how kings and despots used spending and taxes to control their subjects. - British kings used taxation to reward loyalty and punish dissent.

Our own revolution was spurred by the King’s use of heavy taxation of the colonies to punish our push for self governance. The King’s message was simple:

stop protesting and I’ll stop taxing.

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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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Apr 5

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"Article 5 remains relevant": it became known that Trump plans to attend the June NATO summit

Leaders of the Alliance's member countries will meet in The Hague, Netherlands, in June.

Trump assured NATO leaders that Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty remains in force. Recall:
- It stipulates that an attack on one member of the Alliance is considered an attack on all, and each country undertakes to provide assistance, including military assistance.

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This was announced by Polish Foreign Minister Radosław @sikorskiradek, Onet reports .
wiadomosci.onet.pl/swiat/radoslaw…

"From what we hear, he (Trump - Ed.) will be present at the NATO summit in The Hague," he said.

Also, according to the minister, Trump assured NATO leaders that Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty remains in force. Recall:
- it provides that an attack on one member of the Alliance is considered an attack on all, and each country undertakes to provide assistance, including military assistance.

Sikorsky recalled that this principle of collective defense was applied only once - after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the USA

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"It is good that the new US administration is discovering that allies are an asset, not a burden, just as it was
- and I recalled this in my speech
- when the Alliance invoked Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty for the first and, thank God, the last time, and it was in favor of the United States.

After all, we, Poland, had no national interests in Afghanistan.

We did it out of friendship and allied solidarity with the United States," he noted

As a reminder, late last year, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof spoke by phone with newly elected US President Donald Trump and invited him to the NATO summit in The Hague .
news.obozrevatel.com/ukr/abroad/tra…

The US leader then "responded positively" to the offer

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Apr 4

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The danger of a major offensive is on one section of the front: interview with Major Hetman

war.obozrevatel.com/ukr/nebezpeka-…

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The Russian occupation army's preparations
war.obozrevatel.com/ukr/rosiya-got…
for an offensive this spring in one of three directions – Sumy, Kharkiv or Zaporizhia – have been known since last year.

However, there are objective reasons why a large-scale offensive operation cannot be expected.

This is the lack of necessary resources in the occupying country of Russia, primarily not human, but technical and military equipment resources.

For this reason,

the enemy, even if he attempts a breakthrough on a new section of the front, will not be able to advance far into Ukrainian territory

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Currently, the most threatening situation is in the Lyman direction, where the enemy has concentrated ten times more forces than the Ukrainian army has here.

However, the enemy has learned to quickly transfer reserves along the front line, and therefore, in fact, attempts to intensify its actions are possible anywhere.

This opinion was expressed in an exclusive interview with Oleksiy Getman ,
facebook.com/alexeyhetman/
- a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war and a reserve major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine .

– Head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council Andriy Kovalenko warned that the Russian occupation army may make another attempt to break through on the front as early as May.

Ukrainian servicemen believe that the danger primarily threatens the Sumy and Kharkiv regions.

- Do you consider such a danger to be real?

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Apr 2

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Putin won't be able to shoot himself like Hitler or escape. Interview with German Obukhov on ways to remove the dictator

war.obozrevatel.com/ukr/putin-ne-z…

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In the very center of Moscow, on Lubyanka, near the FSB building, an Aurus Senat limousine from the Kremlin fleet was blown up .

What was it?obozrevatel.com/ukr/novosti-ro…

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An assassination attempt on the president of the aggressor country, Russia, Vladimir Putin ?

Obviously, it was a provocation organized by the Russian special services themselves in order to raise the leader's rating.obozrevatel.com/ukr/person/vla…

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Apr 1

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Putin is desperately short of soldiers, but he has a "sniffle" for attacks. Interview with Ivan Stupak

war.obozrevatel.com/ukr/putinu-kon…

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The aggressor country Russia may be preparing a new offensive
obozrevatel.com/topic/vojna-v-…
in Ukraine within the next few weeks, sources report.

However, the enemy does not have many objective opportunities.

After all, if we talk about breaking through the "corridor" between Crimea and Transnistria, then this is a task from the category of fiction, taking into account both the distance - more than 200 kilometers - and the available resources of Russia, in particular due to the huge losses of ships

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The enemy's huge problem is also the lack of human resources.

Currently,

- the economy of the occupying country has actually lost two million workers - one million went abroad after the mobilization was announced, and the second was thrown to the front.

This shortage of workers can become critical and lead to the collapse of the Russian economy.

However,

the enemy can get a certain "sucker" - up to 80 thousand soldiers, if he manages to completely squeeze the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of #Kursk .
obozrevatel.com/entity/vooruzh…

This may be enough to increase pressure on a separate section of the front, but there can be no talk of a large-scale offensive

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Mar 31

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Ukrainians will ‘never forgive’ Russia — @ZelenskyyUa

The Ukrainian people will “never forgive” Russia for invading their country and committing numerous war crimes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on March 31
english.nv.ua/nation/ukraini…

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The president made the statement during a speech in Bucha, on the third anniversary of the town’s liberation from Russian occupation.
english.nv.ua/nation/inside-…

The event was also attended by a delegation of European MPs. Bucha has become the symbol of Russia’s barbaric aggression against Ukraine, with Russian troops killing hundreds of unarmed civilians during its weeks-long occupation in early 2022.

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“We will not forgive Russian crimes or this war because forgiveness would mean accepting that the current Russian system has a right to exist and expand at the expense of other peoples—a system that feeds on human suffering,” Zelenskyy said.

“We will undoubtedly defend Ukraine, and we must restore justice. Russia must be held accountable for this war.”

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