Donald Trump began his presidency with a rampage of executive orders, but now the limits of his power are becoming more apparent. Here are ten reasons why things will continue to not go his way.
The new nuclear arms race Trump is suggesting clearly increases the chances of nuclear war, nuclear testing, accidental nuclear detonation, and contamination. So what can be done to stop this maniac from sitting down in the Oval Office in January and having sole control over the use of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the ability to start a new global nuclear arms race?
At a moment when Trump’s new administration looks like a threatening new totalizing power holding sway over the whole country, what if instead that territory started to become a mosaic of local spaces of non-cooperation at scales ranging from renegade states and cities, to neighborhood spaces we walk through everyday?
US government officials - and the transnational business interests that heavily influence them - are not nearly as concerned with which country gets control over disputed piles of rocks in the South or East China Sea as they are with making sure that trade is not disrupted around these rocks.
There is a showdown coming in Okinawa that will test the limits of US and Japanese state power.
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