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Quote:Without his tariffs, how will Trump pay for his wars?
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Trump: “If it weren’t for the tremendous numbers being produced by Tariffs from other Countries, many of which, in the past, have ‘ripped off’ the United States at levels never seen before, I would stay at the $1 Trillion Dollar number (for Dept. of War) but, because of Tariffs, and the tremendous Income that they bring, amounts being generated, that would have been unthinkable in the past (especially just one year ago during the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration, the Worst President in the History of our Country!), we are able to easily hit the $1.5 Trillion Dollar number while, at the same time, producing an unparalleled Military Force, and having the ability to, at the same time, pay down Debt, and likewise, pay a substantial Dividend to moderate income Patriots within our Country!” he added.
https://defensescoop.com/2026/01/07/trump-calls-for-1-5-trillion-defen
se-budget-2027/
Supreme Court strikes down tariffs
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/02/supreme-court-strikes-down-tariffs/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Trump said he would pay for his wars with tariffs, but he can't collect the tariffs, and yet he started another war immediately after his tariffs were declared unconstitutional. I wonder how Trump's government escapes from the consequences of insufficient income and, simultaneously, the expense of many wars?
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Quote:President Donald Trump and members of his administration repeatedly made the case for military strikes against Iran by arguing that the Middle Eastern country posed a serious threat to the United States.
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Iran, they said, was on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon and ballistic missiles capable of striking the United States.
But national security analysts and experts on Iran and its ruling regime say those claims are based on assumptions that are wrong or greatly exaggerated.
The assertion that Iran was close to developing a nuclear weapon “is not true,” said Matthew Bunn, an arms control expert at Harvard’s Kennedy School.
How long before Iranian missiles can reach the U.S.?
Experts also have cast doubts on the administration’s claim that Iran was close to making ballistic missiles that could reach the United States. U.S. intelligence reports don’t back those assertions, according to Reuters.
Three sources familiar with the assessments told the news agency that Trump’s claims appear to be exaggerated.
Recent U.S. intelligence assessments suggest Iran was as far as 10 years from developing a missile capable of striking the United States.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/28/trump-iran-att
ack-justification/88920586007
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Trump’s regime change strategy for Iran is pure fantasy
Magical thinking won’t help Iranians overthrow their government.
Story by Jonah Shepp | Mar. 1, 2026
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-regime-change-strategy-
for-iran-is-pure-fantasy.html
When President Donald Trump introduced his new war in Iran on Saturday, he closed by offering the Iranian people a breathtakingly confident claim:
"To the great, proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand. Stay sheltered. Don’t leave your home. It’s very dangerous outside. Bombs will be dropping everywhere. When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be, probably, your only chance for generations."
This invitation to revolution followed a list of more prosaic military objectives: The U.S. would “destroy [Iran’s] missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground,” “annihilate their navy,” neutralize its regional proxy forces, and “ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon.” He also extolled “the strength and might of the United States armed forces,” boasting: “I built and rebuilt our military in my first administration, and there is no military on earth even close to its power, strength or sophistication.” He has since repeated these claims, and though the opening airstrikes of the war killed Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and numerous other senior officials, the regime still appears intact. Trump has also repeated his calls for Iranians to rise up against that government. “The rest will be up to you, but we’ll be there to help,” he said in a video address on Sunday.
Taking Trump at his word (if that’s ever a good idea), the goal of “Operation Epic Fury” is to destroy the political and military infrastructure of the Islamic Republic, forcing a fundamental reform of the Iranian state. Ideally, this would create an opportunity for an Iranian popular uprising to overthrow the regime entirely, replacing it with a more liberal, western-oriented state that would align with U.S. interests in the Middle East. In Trump’s fantasy, Iran’s elite military forces, many of them fanatically loyal to the regime, will literally just “surrender to the people, if you think about it,” as he put it in a brief interview with the New York Times on Sunday evening.
But Trump on some level must know this is bullshit, and perhaps that is why he is also talking about a very different vision of post-Khamenei Iran. “What we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect, the perfect scenario,” he told the Times. In other words: a regime that continues to repress and immiserate its own citizens, albeit maybe a little bit less, but is cowed into compliance with a more limited set of American demands. Given how fundamental animosity to the U.S. is to the core identity of the Islamic republic, this scenario seems fantastical as well.
As it did in Venezuela, the Trump administration would need to find a figure within the Iranian establishment with the legitimacy to take charge of the existing government who would also be willing and able to steer Iranian policy in a pro-American direction. Even if such a willing partner could be found, the structure of the Islamic republic would make it practically impossible for them to undermine the regime’s core principles. Trump told the Times he had “three very good choices” to lead Iran, but refused to say who they were or how he would ensure one of them ends up in power. Then he told ABC News that the initial attack on Iran’s leadership “was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates … It’s not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead.”
Whoever is left alive, a more likely outcome is that Iran remains a repressive theocracy hostile to the U.S. and Israel but is so broken that it is no longer able to project power anywhere. Yet Iran’s power had already been severely degraded through economic sanctions, Israeli campaigns against Iranian regional proxy forces, and the joint American-Israeli bombing campa
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Trump’s Iran Attack Was Illegal, Former U.S. Military Officials Allege
“This is an introduction of U.S. forces into hostilities. It absolutely triggers the 48-hour notice requirement.”
By Austin Campbell | March 1 2026, 1:58 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/01/trump-iran-attack-war-powers-resol
ution-united-nations-charter-legal/
President Donald Trump’s order to launch a coordinated U.S.-Israeli strike against Iran ran afoul of international and domestic law, according to military and legal experts including the former legal chief at U.S. Central Command, which carried out the attacks.
“Not only does this violate international law in numerous respects, it clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Resolution,” said retired Air Force Lt. Col. Rachel VanLandingham, who previously served as chief of international law at U.S. Central Command.
The United Nations Charter generally restricts the use of force to cases of self-defense or with approval from the U.N. Security Council. The Constitution separately gives Congress the power to authorize offensive war.
The War Powers Resolution also requires presidents to notify Congress within 48 hours of introducing U.S. forces into hostilities and limits how long those forces can operate without congressional approval. Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefed members of Congress’s bipartisan “Gang of Eight” in calls Friday night ahead of the strikes, according to administration officials and news reports.
“It absolutely triggers the 48-hour notice requirement.”
Legal experts say advance briefings to the Gang of Eight do not necessarily satisfy the War Powers Resolution, which contemplates a formal written report to Congress as an institution, not just a small group of leaders.
“This is an introduction of U.S. forces into hostilities,” said VanLandingham, who now teaches national security law at Southwestern Law School. “It absolutely triggers the 48-hour notice requirement,” she said.
The fact American servicemembers died in the operation raises further legal concerns, she said, as Congress is intended to decide when American lives are placed at risk in offensive wars.
Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., called the operation “dangerous” and “illegal,” saying Trump launched the attack “without authorization from Congress.”
“Speaker Johnson must immediately reconvene the House so we can pass a War Powers Resolution to rein in this unauthorized use of our military and taxpayer dollars,” Balint said.
Democratic leaders had already been moving toward a vote on a bipartisan war powers resolution in the days before the strikes, though the measure was widely expected to fail amid scattered Democratic opposition and near-unified Republican resistance.
From a legal perspective, VanLandingham said the attacks, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, present fewer ambiguities than prior U.S. strikes on Iran, including Operation Midnight Hammer on June 22, 2025, which the U.S. said targeted Iranian nuclear facilities.
Over time, administrations of both parties have steadily expanded unilateral war powers, VanLandingham said, effectively redefining what counts as war in constitutional terms and expanding the circumstances in which presidents can use force without congressional approval. She pointed to air campaigns under Presidents Barack Obama in Libya and Donald Trump in Syria as examples of operations the executive branch treated as falling short of war requiring congressional authorization.
Questions of International Law
The death toll for Operation Epic Fury is mounting, both among civilians and combatants. A strike on a girls’ primary school resulted in nearly 100 reported civilian casualties, and U.S. Central Command said three U.S. service members were killed in action and five seriously wounded. Several others servicemembers sustained minor injuries, the command said, as combat operations continued across the region.
Video circulating on social media appeared to show large explos
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