Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024 | 2 a.m.
The author of the Nov. 13 letter “What to anticipate of MAGA 2025” appears to suppose that U.S. assist to Ukraine will likely be halted underneath President Donald Trump’s subsequent administration.
Maybe he fails to do not forget that Ukraine begged for arms from the Obama administration and acquired blankets. It was Trump who supplied defensive weapons to Ukraine. Russia didn’t invade Ukraine whereas its “good friend” Trump was in workplace. It waited to see the weak spot of the Biden administration (see Afghanistan pullout) to invade.
In response to the author’s assertion that the Trump administration would deny assist to Taiwan if China attacked, the U.S. has for many years acknowledged that it could defend Taiwan within the occasion of a Chinese language assault. This was true underneath the earlier Trump administration.
The letter additionally posits that the Trump administration would ban abortion nationwide. However the Senate requires 60 votes to stop a filibuster and even vote on laws.
These are the checks and balances with which the Founding Fathers framed our Structure. Our authorities was designed to grind slowly ahead as a substitute of lurching left or proper each 4 years.
