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Commerce Secretary Lutnick, on Trump’s behalf, is threatening to seize Harvard patents under the Bayh‑Dole Act, stirring fears of an academic clampdown masquerading as legal crusade. Tammy Bruce (Fox alum turned State Department spinmeister) gets tapped for UN deputy rep — credentials optional.

In Texas, redistricting mayhem: Republicans brandish maps that could add five GOP seats. Democrats flee the state, Republicans threaten arrests, Trump orders their return — a political soap opera with real stakes and shaky outcomes.

India, China, and Russia haven’t signed a formal alliance—but the mere perception of one should keep Washington awake at night. The ties between Moscow and Beijing are already deeper than most U.S. policymakers want to admit, stitched together by shared hostility to Western leverage and a growing network of economic and military cooperation.

India, meanwhile, officially plays the “strategic autonomy” card, balancing relationships with all sides. Yet in the face of aggressive U.S. tariffs—particularly Trump’s recent moves targeting Indian imports tied to Russian oil—New Delhi has been nudged closer to the BRICS orbit, where its interests increasingly overlap with Moscow’s and, by extension, Beijing’s.

Right now, this triangle is more a loose geometry than a locked formation. India and China still distrust each other. Russia and China avoid the constraints of a binding pact. But history shows that alliances rarely start with trust—they start with common enemies.

If U.S. policy continues to pressure all three at once, it risks forcing alignment through shared resentment rather than shared vision. Even symbolic cooperation between these powers could shift the economic gravity eastward, undermining the dollar’s dominance, reshaping energy markets, and eroding U.S. leverage in multilateral forums.

The United States has long benefited from the cracks between these nations. Mishandling this moment could seal those cracks. And if the world’s largest democracy, its most populous autocracy, and its largest nuclear state ever do align with purpose, U.S. dominance won’t just be challenged—it could be rewritten.

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