US President Donald Trump signed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law Thursday, completing the passage of the largest military spending bill in US history—$901 billion, or over $1 trillion when combined with supplemental funding passed earlier this year.
The Senate voted 77-20 on Wednesday to pass the bill. The Democratic leadership, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois, voted for the bill. They were joined by Senators Mark Kelly of Arizona and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, both of whom released a video last month calling on military personnel to disobey illegal orders—as Trump was sending the US military on a murder spree off the coast of Latin America.
Citing Trump’s statements about using troops to shoot protesters in America, Slotkin invoked the legacy of the Nuremberg tribunals, which convicted Nazi leaders for war crimes and crimes against peace. But when it came time to vote, this invocation was revealed to be completely meaningless. Slotkin voted to hand Trump the resources to pursue his military adventure against Venezuela…
You may be surprised that the “tankies” over at lemmygrad and hexbear have been having a field day mocking the “socialist AI” for the past days, here’s an example post. The majority of “tankies” in the so-called “tankie triad” are Marxist-Leninists and not Trotskyists, the latter being the ideology best characterizing WSWS (org behind the “socialist AI”) to the best of my knowledge. So yeah, you’re late to the party of criticising this organization, the “tankies” that you so hate have got you covered on that front.
However, “tankies” aren’t afraid of sources by their country of origin or ideology because we can do good analysis of the source and of the material in question, and if they bring something important to the table we can pick it up and agree with them.