There are a ton of angles and takes on this. I’m not here to proclaim that any of them are particularly wrong or right – I’m not a fortune teller and I don’t see the future. Having said that, this headline sort of feeds into my personal take on this. This was performed by an incompetent administration. It’s easy to tear shit down. It’s much harder to build good, strong things. The ramifications of these, and other recent actions, are basically a giant FUCK YOU to the next administration. And I’m sure they’re at least half expecting the next administration to be Democrats. That’s part of why they’re doing this. Create an insurmountable problem, that no matter how well it’s handled by the next leaders, is sure to be a political bombshell. And obviously, the fact that it’s a news cycle distraction from the Trump-Epstein files and the shitty economy pretty much meant this was bound to happen at some point. Not to mention the fact that if this becomes a bit of a slow boil, then it also becomes a convenient excuse to cancel elections. Hope I’m wrong, of course, especially on that last point, but it’s all too predictable.