Donald Trump's tariffs are not a negotiation tactic. They are a very deliberate plan to destroy the liberal global trading and financial system the US itself established. And all of us could pay a heavy price for his attempt to reshape the world order.
Now they’re just accelerating their own demise. They will be tortured and killed, and they’ll wonder why. It’s like Elongated Muskrat is saying that he does not understand what people are mad at him. They have zero self reflections; and they’ll deserve what’s coming to them.
As the famous quote from Spider-Man goes: “with great power comes great responsibility.” Past WW2 the US acted as hegemon. They where the most powerful country and tried to use this responsibility on the global stage - at least to an extent. NATO, free access to US markets for other countries (though that also benefitted the US because it cemented the USD as reserve currency)
Now the government wants to keep the power but have none of the responsibility. It’s similar to their position on free speech.
That was the goal.
In Rubio’s confirmation hearing, he literally said that the goal of the administration is to end global Post WWII stability.
What would be the point of ending the stability?
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They were already doing that, only in a slow and stable manner.
Now they’re just accelerating their own demise. They will be tortured and killed, and they’ll wonder why. It’s like Elongated Muskrat is saying that he does not understand what people are mad at him. They have zero self reflections; and they’ll deserve what’s coming to them.
Replacement with a different stability.
As the famous quote from Spider-Man goes: “with great power comes great responsibility.” Past WW2 the US acted as hegemon. They where the most powerful country and tried to use this responsibility on the global stage - at least to an extent. NATO, free access to US markets for other countries (though that also benefitted the US because it cemented the USD as reserve currency)
Now the government wants to keep the power but have none of the responsibility. It’s similar to their position on free speech.
To put it an other way: They want to be a bully.
Buzzwords straight from Putin’s mouth, these tariffs only help Putin in the end, weaken the US enough that cthey can’t stop Russia