More evidence to the fact, that Trump is driving a deeply-rooted pro-Putin agenda. This is not collateral damage of a confused president, this is this presidency's strategic intent in foreign policy.

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>> the bill has achieved 1 important thing. It forced Trump to do a cravenly pro-Putin (and unpopular) move less than 3 weeks before the midterm elections. It also forced him to do it at the end of a week in which he also made two other unpopular pro-Putin moves. diesel/Russia Starlink/Ukraine

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“Two states are paying a great price for trusting in the USA—Saudi Arabia and Ukraine (and through Ukraine, Europe as well). Both states are getting bombarded by their enemies and are either being abandoned by the USA or, in the case of Ukraine, are seeing these attacks being supported by the USA”

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In this @phillipspobrien.bsky.social makes the excellent point, that Starlink dependency is as much as a threat to the US as it is globally. A malevolent operator, making political donations in the hundreds of millions, could easily use the on/off switch to impact domestic political opponents.

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It's not as if Trump's fealty to Putin and his hatred of Ukraine has been hidden has it. This gets worse, much worse. because I don't think Trump will respect the US mid-term results if they go against him, which is very likely if the Blue votes don't get 'redacted' (like the Epstein files did).

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