I haven't heard any commentary on Donny's tariff bombshell that really drills down to what his long term strategy/plan is apart from attributing to him a general incompetence and economic illiteracy, in a way accepting at face value his stated aims for taking the actions he has taken. Even from trusted and respected sources posted on this board this seems to be the view as well as some vague speculation as to his wider objectives.
I was chatting to an American friend yesterday whose political outlook is generally a democratic socialist one with sprinklings of shitlib talking points. He said something I hadn't heard or thought of before...that Donny wants to carve up Europe between himself and Russia, whereby Western Europe becomes even more of a colony than it already is, while domestically he is going to start a major war somewhere so he can suspend the constitution to enable himself and his progeny to remain in power indefinitely. A new Emperor enacting a new form of feudalism and colonialism. This is much darker than I ever feared from him but it was difficult to find any reasons why this view is unrealistic. Time will tell. Chris Hedges attributed a kind of incompetence to Trump, stating God help us if a competent dictator comes to power as is likely in the States. Maybe he's much more 'competent' than thought of and the dreaded time is already upon us?
I posted below about a possible panic move to start a war to get good headlines once the economic madness starts to hit home and lose the base; it's the american way.
Your quoted conversation is another, more sinister, reading of it with the domestic trouble being the lever for war.
I have definitely been getting the feeling that some of this stuff is too extreme to not be part of something else and the tariff calamity has to have some deeper idea behind it because even if donny scumbag is pushing some idea he's got into his head there will be someone in the entire administration that could tell him what a complete pile of shit he's dropping out.
They have definitely tried to gut a lot of the mechanisms that prop up the much vaunted "checks and balances" so who knows. He recently "joked" about there being "ways" to get a third term but even for this maniac that would be outrageous.
I guess we're going to see.The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
I have no idea but it seems to me that Trump creates a cloud of chaos around him at all time to make insecure people be loyal to him and to vacuum up wealth from every direction. I don’t think he cares about anyone at all or has any plan beyond taking advantage. People are just pawns and marks to him.
on April 4, 2025, 10:58 am