There’s No Coming Back From Trump’s Tariff Disaster | America was the world’s economic anchor. Thanks to the president, it may never have that role again.
There’s No Coming Back From Trump’s Tariff Disaster
We’re only going to get our standing back by throwing this man in prison and impeaching the corrupt supreme court. We also need to get dark money out of our politics to save our democracy.
and THAT
was the point. trump is attempting to destroy the country
AND it's future. So it can never be world power again
I had a holiday booked for this last February in the States, after Trump won the election though that holiday was cancelled and I went to Japan instead
If you swapped your american holiday for a trip to Japan then you are a trader. B'dum tiss. /s
The only way I can see a coming back is for the US - or rather, whatever comes after, to implement a socialist government that leapfrog's the advances of the Nordic nations. North America has tremendous resources and a great deal of land, but has always hamstrung its potential due to the 1% hoarding that bounty. In the event that the 1% are eliminated from society, it is very possible that the ordinary American could get the education and means to make themselves fulfill their potential.
Hopefully, the likes of Trump and his friends will hang out together, someday.
I looked for explanation:
Pavolini was captured after a desperate escape attempt which saw him swimming across Lake Como and then trapped in a Mexican standoff over a half submerged rock. When Pavolini ran out of bullets, he was finally apprehended and executed only under Italian law by the partisans in Dongo.[1] Before burial, his body was hung upside down in public, along with Mussolini, Mussolini's mistress Clara Petacci, the former Party Secretary Achille Starace, Nicola Bombacci and others in Piazzale Loreto, Milan.[2]
Good. This country has wielded that influence like a cleaver for decades.
I'm happy to see it end.
"..what matters is the targeting of essential structural elements of a nation: economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. Basically, the subverter (Russia) would look to destabilize every one of those areas in the United States, considerably weakening it."
https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/
"Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal GLOBALIST Western hegemony"
Released in the 90s, and became Russian intel agent required reading. That's just one highly relevant quote. Check the "content" section for a few eye poppers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Feel free to google "Project Russia" next, as that was the successor to FoG.
In all reality, if the world before 2016 matters to you at all and you understand Russia has been waging a psychological war against us since the 90s and never stopped fighting the Cold War, the picture is very clear. The evidence isn't even tangential. It's blatant and it's everywhere.
We just live in post-truth... which is exactly how Russia and China live. That's why you can't talk about certain topics in China involving tanks. (Tbh I'm just tired and too lazy to google the spelling...) Russia is literally in the midst of brainwashing children its kidnapped from Ukraine.
We have traitors in office pretending Russia is our ally and directly spewing kremlin propaganda, while attacking and damaging the United States only to hand cash to their rich buddies while we are implementing a mass deportation campaign of even legal immigrants, shipping them to horrific prisons overseas. This story never gets better at this stage without getting much worse.
Wishing everyone the best... very scared for what's to come. :-)
Great post, brother.
I have been writing about the Foundation of Geopolitics for years, and always wondered what he meant by "its special services within the borders of the United States." Then HitlerPig comes on the political scene, and it all becomes clear.
HitlerPig made his first trip to Moscow in 1987, where they were pleased to see that he could be manipulated by even the most insincere flattery, and was given the code name Krasnov. After a decade of laundering money for emerging Russian Mobsters/Oligarchs, he is being referred to as a "special service" in the Russian playbook for world domination in 1997.
And today, he is President again, a political mulligan which he intends to exploit just as much as he does on the golf course.
It is Russia's greatest victory, and they didn't have to fire a shot. They just needed a Manchurian Candidate, and HitlerPig volunteered.
Thank you, I appreciate the positive response. I am pounding the drum as loudly & clearly as I can as time is running out. People need to see the bigger picture, instead of the 4chan reality that's overtaken the world. It's like everyone (those that don't/didn't vote or are MAGA) forgot what reality & history was like before 2016. Trump's firehose of never ending scandals and our failure to punish them fully enable this to happen.
I will say that I think that Russia planted many seeds. They in fact tell us this; in previous decades they sponsored left wing groups. However, it just so happens this time they made connections with the right wing billionaires who are willing to sacrifice our global alliances (and harm the millions of lower class people) to reshape North America in their vision. It is the perfect storm of many traitors within our government sharing a similar ideology and vision of how the country should run (oligarchy/right wing authoritarianism) & our enemies abusing this perceived shared vision to harm our democracy.
Just to hammer the point further - certain Fox News hosts (rhymes with Yucker Marlson), are known to take Russian money - as are several twitch broadcasters (primarily gamers), really emphasizing their reach. The "big think" link I provided really spells out that they used propaganda over decades to help nudge our ideology even further right, which likely just put gasoline on the fire of our failure to punish the confederates, the failure of reconstruction, & our later acceptance of Nazis (and the Nazi culture that temporarily was prominent in America.. Ford the most prominent example)
It's happening in every democracy.
Pollieviere in Canada. (Forgive spelling, again?)
Marine La Pen in France
AfD party in Germany
Bolsonsaro in Brazil
Brexit happening in the UK (also called for in FoG)
Someone else mentioned Romania, though I can't speak on that as much. I'm sure there's many more.
Propaganda to destabilize western democracies is the main weapon of China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. And Trump thinks he gets along with all of them, except maybe Xi.
I'll say once more for now: anyone denying this is a fool or a traitor. The connections aren't happening just in the US, they're happening everywhere. And the billionaire network states plan says that's exactly the point - if they can destabilize the US, they think they can do it to every democracy. What a treasure for China and Russia.
"How do you replace the current elite? You make new countries." - quote from one of the right wing billionaires showcased in "DARK GOTHIC MAGA" by Blonde Politics on YouTube. Go listen to him say it if you don't believe me. (And correct my phrasing if it's slightly off)
Not saying Trump's presidency will Balkanize the US. The tech bros think longer than 4 years. But they absolutely are working toward creating their own city states and want to Balkanize the US. Trump said it out loud -- he wants to offer up federal land for billionaires to bid on as "freedom cities." Video is easily searchable on Google. They will be run by tech billionaires, AI, surveillance & automated weapons. (See Peter Thiel's Palantir & Anduril companies, and Thiel's decades long goal of seizing power for a billionaires/monarchy. Kinda like how Thiel and Musk grew up under apartheid. Must remind them of home. Huh?)
I am going in a bunch of different directions here so I will just end on that while I strongly advocate we are directly at war with Russia and this is largely the result of decades of our enemies promoting propaganda against us, it's also only possible because of various factions of internal traitors too.
I probably could go on. The Russian connections are EVERYWHERE and I'm only able to detail certain ones in America.
Maybe I'll clean up what I'm saying here after I wake up some more. 🙃
We just live in post-truth… which is exactly how Russia and China live. That’s why you can’t talk about certain topics in China involving tanks.
Try talking about genocide in USA.
We have traitors in office pretending Russia is our ally and directly spewing kremlin propaganda,
Yes, and also same thing with the zio regime. There are literally traitors wearing foreign terrorist uniforms in congress. I haven't seen anybody do that with a russian uniform.
It's also worth noting that almost every politician is openly paid off by the zio regime. Etc. I haven't seen anything like that with russia.
It's also worth noting that many companies are collaborating with this regime to build weapons, surveillance, and to censor social media. They're also encaging and deporting people who protest against genocide. Again I haven't seen anything like this with russia.
Fuck Israel. Trump is just as bad if not worse on Israel. He proudly and loudly will give Israel anything they want.
But no we have to argue about nonsense like Trump's tariffs tanking the economy because we elected a traitor and a moron... instead of electing the prosecutor we could have influenced her stance on Israel.
We literally had Congress folk in Russia on July 4th. Please stop whitewashing Russia. Israel and Russia are both our enemies.
There is no mastermind or master plan. If you think Trump is a Russian asset then you've fallen for conspiracy theory and you yourself live in a "post-truth" fantasy. Whatever Trump is, he's not someone who can be handled (except by playing on his megalomania). If you don't understand that yet, and pretend otherwise, you're just adding to the noise.
Similarily, that Foundations of Geopolitics is an interesting "cookbook" but it's just that. Russia exploits glaring weaknesses in our neoliberal society by simply buying their way into social media. Any rational country would prevent news or social media to be owned by oligarchs, spew lies for profit and and generally being open to the highest bidder. The US has failed to get money out of politics and media. And that is a result of the neoliberal world order, so - thanks Obama and all those who came before him.
The liberal mindset has been poisoned since 2016 to think there is some big enemy like Russia or China, that there is only black and white, good or evil.
Yeah go away with the propaganda. Trump has been laundering Russian money since the 80s. Trump's 2016 campaign was littered with connections to Russia.
You have fallen for the conspiracy theory that it was a "Russia Russia Russia hoax"
Mueller explicitly said that he could not exonerate Trump; if he could, he would. Instead, he outlines that the Trump campaign refused to cooperate and that Trump himself specifically obstructed justice in the case preventing Mueller from completing it -- and so he (Mueller) would follow the sitting DOJ guideline a sitting president cannot be indicted. That explicitly outlines additional criminal activity by Trump to prevent identification of any connections he might have to Russia. Meanwhile, some of his staff went to prison.
You are the one thinking in black and white. Once again, as I've said many times, I am not advocating for marching on Russia. But they said they would destroy us from within in the 90s; once again, they created additional doctrine called Project Russia around 2009-2010 that was also used in military psyops.
I don't really wanna hear "there's no mastermind or masterplan" nonsense from the party that cried about "the deepstate!" and "stolen election" for 8+ years. The party that decried "new world order" for decades and went on the red scare calling people communists (and in fact to this day use "communism" and "socialism" as scare tactics)
I am not claiming our internal issues are not also a problem. But you are an absolute clown & fool if you cannot see the connections to Russia. We literally put Paul Manafort in federal prison for related charges, no? And at least 1 other campaign staffer?
And now we are handing Ukraine to Russia on a silver platter. Not demanding anything of them -- and the absolute clown of a proposal our guy offered literally partitioned Ukraine in a way that set it up so that Russia could regroup and take the rest of it later.
Seriously. I'm aware there might be a little bit of irony in this statement, but it. is. not. even. hidden. anymore. "Rather Russian than a democrat", remember? --> anyone denying the connections to Russia is a fool, or a traitor. Period. You can let me know which you are. Once again, I'm aware there might be some irony... but unlike in the red scare, MAGA is actually damaging the US irreparably -- and at least some of it has clear connection to, and benefits, Russia.
Not to mention that the overall destabilizing of the US and its isolation from the world literally hands global power to Russia and China....
So what is it; fool, or traitor?
It's not puppet masters pulling strings on a marionette. It's gardeners watching the fruits of their labor grow.
Their media campaign is part of how they influence trump. He watches Fox and reads xitter/truth social, and anything they can get into the buzz with their influence campaign shows up in front of his eyes. Tucker Carlson going to Moscow to interview Putin is a blatant example of their ties that are mostly more subtle than that.
Tulsi Gabbard is another huge win for them, and she is in charge of what intelligence Trump sees.
Trump doesn't "take orders" from Moscow, or the intelligence sharing pause with Ukraine would have happened earlier and never resumed.
When it happened I thought: The only way Russia wins this war outright is if the US switches sides and supports them instead.
We didn't do that. Russian control is not that tight.
Anyone who claims that Russia is NOT behind all of this is either Russian, a traitor, or stupid. The evidence is enormous and perfectly clear. Its been extensively confirmed in multiple investigations, not just by our government, but governments around the world. Everybody understands it except you and the MAGA Morons. There is no remaining doubt. It's Putin. It's always Putin, using Skum and HitlerPig as his muscle.
When will people truly internalize that the two biggest foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs, have partnered up with the most prolific traitor in American history? None of them have any loyalty or patriotism toward America, and only see us as a big, rich, fat, lazy target to be ruthlessly exploited and looted, and it's happening in real time before our eyes.
All they care about is money, and either Putin is paying them directly out of the Russian Treasury (HitlerPig would rape and murder his own mother for far less than a billion bucks, and Putin could order a lot more than that), or they've cut a deal to split the booty like the pirates they are.
Noooooooo shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
This is why plenty of us tried to warn people against voting for this dipshit motherfucker (not that people in a cult will listen). It's part of why it was the media's fucking job to report on how stupid his ideas were before he got fucking elected. Not necessarily The Atlantic specifically, but a lot of the media just fucking treated every insane thing he promised during the election as normal, valid, and like it could work. Total abdication of journalistic responsibility.
I don't get how people don't understand the role the media should play.
It should simply shine light on the truth and report the facts.
Instead they play politics, and abdicate that duty in favor of shock and schlock pieces.
If the media simply reported on Trump's policy discussions factually, everyone would have seen this coming, to add to your point.
This is why news outlets should belong to us, not to billionaires. Jeff Bezos owning the Washington Post, John Henry owning The Boston Globe, Stanley Hubbard owning multiple local news outlets, Lee Enterprises owning 75 local newspapers, these are all HUGE problems.
While "the media" certainly has its issues, it's more of a convenient scapegoat than the root of the problem. Enough of us have access to all the information we could ever need to know this man was bad news and we decided it wasn't worth the effort. You can blame the media for not making it easier but ultimately we didn't do our jobs and become educated voters. That is our collective fault and no one else's.
Yeah but advertising and profits. Duh.
If we had state restrictions on media and it's incentives that would obviously be worse. /s
A lot of those media journalists you suggest don't have an obligation to journalistic responsibility .... they have a corporate responsibility to the company share holders
Top media outlets are owned by the 1% And so...
Don't forget the morons who didn't vote for the dipshit because of their virtue signaling about ONE war happening across the world while completely ignoring the impact the orange doofus had on the OTHER one.
I am personally enjoying the fall of the American empire. At least for now. Until it starts invading everyone to try and prevent the inevitable.
The takeaway should be that to do business in the US, you have to bribe Trump. He's not really made a secret over the fact that he's running the country like a protection racket. Tim Cook gave $1 million to the Trump inauguration fund (that we're aware of) and Apple gets an exemption. Boeing did the same and got a fighter plane program. Small and medium businesses that can't afford bribes and import things from China? Screwed.
It's not good for the big businesses either though, that's why their stocks are still down. Because the need to pay bribes is a cost to them and will eventually sink the whole economy.
America losing it's economic monopoly would be the greatest thing to ever happen to democracy & mankind & guess what ?
FREEEEEEDOM
The president is just a figurehead of a garbage system. It's this easy to turn the system into a fascist nightmare because it was always a fascist nightmare. Literally invented by slavers.
I’m so tired of morons (that aren’t me) having the power to royally fuck up my way of life.
Right? As if I needed any fucking help doing that.
IF we can get a very strong Congress that recaptures and then vigorously defends it's Constitutional powers, AND that goes through the trouble of codifying what used to be political norms before Trump, AND amends the Constitution as needed to put a strong leash on the Executive branch, I think it's possible we could become that anchor again.
But it took a world war and at least 25 years of concerted effort after to build that role for ourselves. Even though the Republicans have damaged or destroyed it in 3 months, it won't be rebuilt in 3 months.
Billionaires don't care. They'll be fine, we're the ones that have to suffer.
Thanks to republican/conservative voters.
It ain't just maga. I work with non-maga republican voters who didn't vote trump, but also didn't vote kamala, because they "just couldn't do it". These people's only issues they talk about currently, is that people steal by taking advantage of food stamps when they have expensive jewelry and iPhones, and they think Mexicans are taking jobs all over. I've heard these verbatim arguments over and over. They think dems give "too many handouts". They're stuck in there ways and can't be convinced otherwise.
They have no clue that it's Republicans who are the ones to "give handouts" to billionaires and themselves, and they're not willing to hear it.
It's not entirely that they're dumb. They ARE ignorant, but that's by design. The elites have been executing this for decades and have done a great job, in the form of propaganda, indoctrination, and shitty education.
It's hard not to think that we're just doomed.
Wage theft is bigger than all other theft combined, but your coworkers probably aren't nearly so upset about that.
it does depend on where though, in places where shoplifting is unpunished or unabated, it really had shut down a ton of chain stores and even local businesses due to the massive thefts, and the police refuse to do anything, despite getting such a healthy budget to begin with.
Red states probably, wage theft is even higher i bet, because of thier lax income laws and business friednly tax free/reduced legislations. people do depend on pharmacies of WG, and probably CVS too, but even those are starting to close down.
They're still blaming the system for not presenting an ideal choice. I seem to recall adults take ownership of their fucking problems.
Why STUPID People Are a Greater Threat to Society Than Criminals
Dems are the reason they even have " Welfare"
It is always cringeworthy to hear Americans call themselves "the world economic anchor" Or the "world police" Fucking manifest destiny, national narcissistic exceptionalism is one of the main reasons for the collapse of the US empire. At some point in the future they will need to pull their heads out of their own asses to learn some humility and humanity.
The expression “world economic anchor” is meant literally and factually: the United States are the world's strongest consumer market and therefore drive demand and economic activity like no other, and, more importantly, the US dollar and Treasuries serve as a reserve currency and asset, respectively, for both central banks and private investors. This arrangement is unfair, in its own macroeconomic ways that have nothing to do with exceptionalism, manifest destiny or cultural superiority, to both the rest of the world, who end up funding the United States, and common US denizens, who suffer from inflated assets.
I was talking about the comments under article as well as the article itself. The arrangement of the dollar as global currency did not came by coincidence or a strategy to victimize the poor wittle amewican citizens; it was policy. So much so that this policy was imposed in many parts of the world. There is a reason why te United states is so afraid of Brics And de-dollarization. It is good news for the world That America is loosing grip on their empire, It is good news that countries around the world are choosing to drop the dollar as reserve currency and it is especially good news that America could be weak enough to stop dictating economic and political policy. Particularly an economic policy that benefits them.
We need other economic blocks and options when it comes to banking and investment. We need to stop a country from dictating other countries who they should do business with or deciding what country should be isolated like it's happening to Cuba. I welcome less american control and they can take their victim butts behind their borders and close them down if it means they will stop meddling with the world.
"Leader of the free world" is so arrogant and cringe
Regardless of how you may feel about it, that's how the governments of most other Western countries saw it. This is evidenced by US bases all over the world, low investment in national defense by most NATO countries, the dollar being the world's primary reserve currency, etc.
The diminishment of global influence and power is not because of those things, but because of domestic affairs: in the richest country in history, businesses broke the social contract with workers, the cost of health care skyrocketed as hospitals became for-profit business, and half the country was too brainwashed by consolidated media conglomerates to see what was really happening.
Basically, the libertarian values that have always been the underpinnings of American society finally reached their apotheosis at the same time the Internet and propagandist entertainment news caused the cultural fabric of society that had formerly acted as a counterweight to begin to unravel. Every man for themselves writ large. The chickens came home to roost.
Well, the Brits still retain a large chunk of the arrogance that came with the Empire they no longer possess. So I wouldn't hold my breath. #1 baby!
A powerless arrogant at least we can laugh of. And I do like myself some British comedy. as for #1 keep telling yourself that as the empire crumbles.
I'm afraid we are only going to learn the hard way. I pray that as few innocent's are hurt as possible.
Americans no longer have the resolve to be world police, if it was right to do so in the first place. Unfortunately, that vacuum looks like it will be filled by a modern nation conducting ethnic cleansing within their borders and maybe using prisoners for organs.
It's not just the police. They had a lot of soft power. Just wait till countries tell them to remove their bases.
If I was Germany, Poland or Japan, I would probavly let the Amer cans run their bases as their power dwindles, unless there is a domestic threat. It gives you more time to build native defenses, avoids any unnecessary political conflict, and keeps the active threat to enemies.
We defended our economic and geopolitical influence. I really don’t know how much “policing” we did from any truly moral or ethical standpoint. it’s almost all been about keeping rivals at bay in some way or another. We delivered democracy…or whatever puppet government that promised the do what we wanted…at the point of a gun more often than not. China will likely move into the US’s economic role and has been pushing that way for quite some time. As far as military intervention, we won’t be able to afford it anymore with the loss of favorable trade or other agreements. Where the US may have felt like a necessary evil to some countries allowing us to have bases or other dominant presence, those countries are probably going to start looking elsewhere or solve those issues internally and hold the US at arm’s length.
China doesn't have the capacity to fill the role of world police and probably never will.
What we will get is a more violent, dangerous world, with periodic waves of refugees.
I guess it's better when the ethnic cleansing is conducted outside the country? How much money and weapons has the US supplied to Israel?
Both China and the US are horrible in their own ways. Though I guess World Police is an apt term since the police are usually corrupt and oppress the weak.
Yeah, world police is more apt than I would wish. ACAB.
to be honest usa is doing the same, dint you hear that in alabama they are allowed to harvest organs by the university, of Prisoners to conduct "unethical research"
I hadn't heard about that. Do you have a particular source of reference? I'd be curious to read what you did.
They aren't even beginning a comeback until their Overton Window shifts closer to reality. Otherwise nobody isn't going to recognize them as anything but descending uncontrollably into backwater hermit state as every nation scrambles to cut ties.
At most 30% of the voting age population understood the assignment trying to prevent all this. That's certainly an indictment. The majority of the population has departed from reality. Perhaps many were never with it on account of being born too deep into the mythology of America.
The internet was supposed to expand peoples minds offering an antidote to such things as this. Instead it dug them deeper. It's crazy. Sometimes I wonder what if all this is in no small part due simply to a consequence of reactionaries getting online and seeing too much of the world. Seeing 7 billion kinds of diversity of humanity around the world beaming through their smartphone caused their brains to short circuit. Deciding that being a paranoid hermit state is better than being a nation of the world.
I think a lack of media literacy.
Many don't ask why they're being shown what they are on TV and social media.
It's Fox News... That's the elephant in the room. You can't make progress when they are propoganda masquerading as news.
The very fact that they haven't been sued into the ground or curtailed at all by the government lends them legitimacy. People believe what they see on the TV, especially if it makes them feel good.
The majority of the population has departed from reality.
According to Ballotpedia, ~63.9% of the eligible US voting population (older than 18) turned out to vote, or ~155 mn people. This means ~36.1% didn't turn out, or ~88 mn people out of the ~243 mn total population. In 2020, the turnout rate was ~66.6% or ~158 mn, meaning ~33.4% or ~79 mn didn't vote out of the ~238 mn total population.
According again to Ballotpedia, 77 mn voted R in 2024 (49.8% of the voting population or 31.8% of the total population), ~75 mn voted D (48.3% of the voting population or 30.8% of the total population), and ~3 mn voted 3rd party (1.9% of the voting population or 1.2% of the total population).
In 2020, 81 mn voted D (51.3% of the voting population or 34.2% of the total population), ~74 mn voted R (46.9% of the voting population or ~31.2% of the total population), and ~3 mn voted 3rd party (1.8% of the voting population or ~1.2% of the total population).
You say majority, but clearly less than a third of adults in 2024 voted R.
I don't think we can say why the other ~88 million didn't vote. Sure, maybe some of them share a reality that diverges from the rest of the world. But we can speculate some other reasons too: maybe they were too apathetic because their party ran on issues not necessarily aligned to the views of their own, maybe they had to go to work to earn a paycheck, maybe they were turned away from the ballot box, maybe Joe Biden's approval ratings tanked and upon dropping out of the race, many people on election day still thought he was running, maybe Kamala didn't diverge enough away from Biden (or Republicans) to make a meaningful difference in voters' eyes, and maybe some of them didn't think women should be in office, with gender inequality still a prescient issue.
I liked Tim Walz's analogy in response to the Democrats' performance in 2024:
If a teacher teaches a subject, quizzes their class afterwards, and finds that less 100% of the class pass, the fault for that performance doesn't lie with the kids. The fault lies with the teacher. The teacher needs to teach concepts in multiple ways using different pedagogical methods to activate as many kids as possible.
Politicians are the same for me. If people aren't voting for you, a politician needs to speak to (and sometimes educate) the public in more ways than just one - and do so effectively.
Democrats dropped the ball this year. It still seems like they're dropping the ball in Congress. We'll see what the party does. I'd recommend they look to the progressive caucus with Bernie Sanders and AOC for the answer.
kinda blame people like rogan,a nd Incel grifters, they convinced a large portion to vote for trump, or not at all.
in honesty, this is what PUTIN wanted with america, to weaken it so they cant distract russia from thier internal/foreign policies.
Not to mention the zio regime. They're getting their full genocide.
Putin doesn't get this kind of public bootlicking service.
The world needs to be more resilient to the policies of any one country. Therefore, the American economy must shrink, for the good of all.
There are some examples of this too.
Isn't it fun to live during the downfall of an empire? I'll bet the Brits loved it.
RIP Pax Americana.
That's what scares me. We had two things; banking and the military. Now all we've got is weapons.
When all you've got is weapons
....
Uhh something something hammer nails
I am hoping the F35 was enough of a earth tilting catastrophe that a lot of the dangerous violent competent military potential of the flailing US oligarchy was already was siphoned off into good old corruption.
It sounds like hyperbole but when you start to look at the numbers, it is like a whole war was fought where winning involved burning a civilization toppling amount of money on a dysfunctional weapon.
MAGA - make America grovel again
Is all this a death rattle for the US? A part of me thinks this was happening one way or another. I'm still unsure of what will come after, but maybe something better? Probably not, eh?
It’s completely done, yank losers. It only took yank dumbfucks electing a gameshow host twice to your highest office for the rest of the world to realize you are full of shit. Enjoy being sidelined by the rest of the world for eternity. Oh and we can all look forward to some other currency being the reserve currency.
I nominated the Vietnamese Dong as the new global currency... Why? Cause it's the Dong! Beware the Dong!
The new reserve currency will most likely be crypto.
Yeah - no.
It's gonna be the EU and China battling for the top
of course we won't The US won't be a dominant anything ever again once this is over
Good. tRump has done more in 2 months to bring down the US Empire than any of their real or imagined enemies in the last 80 years have. Time to let it die.
Now ask yourself what countries does this "defeat/isolationism" benefit the most. What country would wine and dine on the grave that was the USA. What countries went out of their way to ensure this bumbling idiot got elected, what countries can't this idiot talk negatively about. Welp my aluminum hat is melting gotta go buy some more from the company store.
The zio regime has benefited massively from total support for their genocide. Their influence is far greater and completely open. USA doesn't openly serve russia like that.
Putin would, he would love for USA, and probably directed trump to use the tariffs. so that they cant concentrate on things like ukraine, or russias neighbors.
But hey, at least a handful of already filthy rich people made a little extra money off of the shenanigans and China got pwned!
Lol what fear click bait
The end of the dollar as the reserve currency is the objective.
Trump wants to devalue the dollar to bring manufacturing back to maintain the knowlege to build arms.
Who knows if that works but here is the reasoning:
https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-trumps-tariffs-are-a-masterplan/
So the USA wasn't that bad then?
Not according to The Atlantic. According to the libs, everything has been awesome from 1492 until 4 months ago. smh.
According to what “libs”? Who thinks that exactly?
Can't wait for the inevitable companion pieces: one from Conor Friedersdorf entitled Actually You Are Wrong And I Am Very Smart and the other from Jeffery Goldberg, with the headline This Will Be Catastrophic For Israel's Capacity To Bomb Palestinians.
Good.
Now the world can be anchored by the great equalizer:
Kryptokurrency!