cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/58166384
Hear me out, guys. What if we just start shit with people for no reason. Wouldn’t that be great? /s
i think he’s doing it either as retribution for not helping with iran or as leverage to get them to do something with iran.
They didn’t help but they were happy about it. They probably just needed a little more convincing and less threatening, and they’d have happily joined its big brother like an excited todller.
He has no reasons. He doesn’t think beyond bullying. His handlers and backers however appear to be a death cult.
He has no reasons.
I wish people who are being played would understand they are being played. Trump has very good reasons for these tariffs - market disruption and opportunity for insiders to make big money and he applies and lifts, increases and decreases week to week.
is it a death cult if they know that they’re not the ones who will be dying?
I don’t share your confidence of their confidence. Weakening the US economically, isolating it from allies, destroying herd immunity and public health, bringing back formerly extirpated/eradicated diseases and pests.
The rich and powerful are not protected from this. The opposite of win-win is not win-lose, its lose lose.
