ไทยถูกหลอกหยุดยิง ถึงเวลาต้องตื่น ศาลล้มภาษีทรัมป์?
Summary
A US appeals court upheld the lower court in finding the 2025 tariffs unlawful, holding that the president has no unilateral power to set them.
For Thailand that means the instrument used to press it into a ceasefire is losing force — and the better bargain has already gone.
The talk compares it to Zhuge Liang’s empty fort: opening the gates and playing the zither with no soldiers behind you.
Key points
The weapon had no legal basis
The court held the power never sat with the president, which means the threat rested on something that did not exist.
What was lost is timing
Conceding before the ruling means the price already paid cannot be recovered.
The empty fort works while nobody checks
Zhuge Liang had no soldiers, and his enemy would not walk in to find out. The tariff threat ran on the same mechanism.
The lesson is to verify before conceding
The question to ask is whether the other side actually has the power to do what it threatens.