Trump Signing The Sanctions Bill Doesn't Mean Shit

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Okay. So trump is signing the bill. A couple of things so that we don't go full WW3 status.

1) "on or after the date of the enactment of this Act" So that excludes all the 2016 Russian hacking blah blah blah. All the sections I've read have this clause, and so it doesn't matter when libs get all uppity "because so and so met with so and so and we need to sanction immediately."

2) "if the President determines" This is also everywhere in the bill and so for the most part it's gonna just be up to Trump. There's nothing mandating that the president must sanction someone, it's up to his discretion. There's only clauses requiring him to explain himself to the senate committee if he wishes to LIFT sanctions, not impose new ones.

However, there is kind of a catch with the "if the President determines" clause, especially regarding Syria. Say someone reports to the president that so and so is doing such and such, we're talking like a military report, and he doesn't sanction them because he doesn't want to do the economic equivalent of shooting down Russian planes - then what could happen is that someone that's in the room during the briefing could leak that and put public pressure on Trump.

HOWEVER, that depends on public attention and pressure. And with the recent happenings involving the investigation of the Clinton Foundation and ESPECIALLY Fusion GPS and the fake dossier, the publics attention is going to be pretty divided. The liberals will say, "but so and so did such and such, he has to sanction them." And people will respond, "dude, Hillary Clinton literally fucks squirrels. Literally." So we'll see how this plays out.