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I wonder how a second Trump presidency would look like. Two things would be for sure: a) strengthening of the conservative majority on the Supreme Court; b) disaster for Ukraine and lifting (or lack of enforcement) of core economic sanctions on Russia.

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tijd

Republicans had some control over Trump during his presidency because he was afraid of losing the next election and of the Russiagate investigation ("I’m fucked" he said after Mueller was appointed.) Therefore, he did what they wanted, including appointing conservative justices. Republicans have no control over him now, and he would do completely unhinged things.

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arpad

And how it would be different from the second term of Biden may I ask?

On his foreign watch we have: Disaster in Afghanistan. Disaster in Ukraine - instead of Lend-Lease Biden went into dividing billions of aid between friendly defense contractors and it resulted in turning bipartisan issue of high importance into partisan one. And finally - disaster in Middle-East cause Iran choose Russian side and all the fancy maneuvers of Biden administration ended with nothing.

I honestly think that a nation that choose Trump vs Biden from three hundred million people is in deep trouble. And I honestly don't know which one will be worse.

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timelets

The disaster in Afghanistan was set up by Trump's negotiations and his announcement of the withdrawal.
WRT Ukraine, I'm afraid you don't understand how fund allocation works in the US: it's controlled by the Congress and the administration can't just throw money at a new problem at its own discretion. I'll leave your comment about "friendly contractors" to discuss with your fellow conspiracy theorists. The number of military contractors in the US is rather small and by the nature of their business they are always friendly to any administration, either Republican or Democrat. Etc, etc.

Peter Thiel, who supported Trump in 2016, said that Trump is incompetent as a leader. Given a great chance to govern he ran the ship into the ground. Enough said.