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Monika Greenleaf's avatar

Why do you present it in this way, Shankar? "June 29th will be remembered. It must be. It marks the day we shift from gathering intangible signs of America’s quiet protection of the Putin regime to hard, undeniable evidence." To make it more dramatic and prophetic? Anyone paying attention has noticed this for years. I'm sorry to criticize because I appreciate your intellect and loyalty to Ukraine.

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“The path to U.S. irrelevance will not be marked by a single catastrophe. It will unfold as a slow, deliberate collapse—and 2025 is quietly shaping up to be the year Washington stepped on the gas and raced downhill.”

Bravo Shankar, excellent analysis as always and 100% on point! This quote encapsulates the entire second Trump administration.

And what makes it worse is the fact that Trump has immunity, has consolidated all levers of power, while SCOTUS just gave Trump a license to commit murder. He is now the Unitary Executive under no one’s control or authority.

And the brilliance of Heritage is they are slow walking their policies, and testing all of their moves. The EO giving Trump full authority to call up National Guard Troops within a governor’s consent, to deploying active military to use as he pleases, SCOTUS has given Trump the benefit of the doubt to continue his unconstitutional policies with impunity.

As Robert Maynard Hutchins once said, "The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

Add corruption and a sadistic morally bankrupt administration, and here we are! IMHO…:)

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