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Jacek.degen.eth 🎩
@jacek
Anyone got a read on what the Trumpsta's angle is with all these tariffs? Feels like the U.S. is intentionally isolating itself, creating a power vacuum for China or others to step in. Is the U.S. just broke? Running out of options? Or is it pure ego—thinking all innovation starts and ends in America, and the rest of the world’s just along for the ride? Or maybe there’s a 4D chess play to destabilize global markets and reshuffle the deck?
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Kieran Daniels
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When negotiating, never split the difference. Start high and walk back to reality. One by one, that’s what will happen with these tariffs. And yes, America is broke. We have been paying taxes to fund other countries and build bombs and the treasury has been looted over the last 4 years. If nothing changed, then America and all the countries that it’s supports would actually collapse and actually create the power vacuum you’re talking about. But in reality, the changes Trump has made will prevent that from happening. The country was run on tariffs until a “temporary war-time” income tax was levied. This never went away and has only increased. The Revolutionary War was started over a 4% tea tax. I paid 46% federal last year. What you’re seeing with the markets is a short term squeeze to balance the budget. USAID was fraudulently spending so much tax payer money that it was artificially inflating the GDP. Because government spending is included in the GDP calculations.
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dusan.framedl.eth 🎩
@ds8
actually this feels like a level-headed take... only issue is the willingness of others to reneg. he might be overplaying, but we'll see
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Kieran Daniels
@kdaniels.eth
At the end of the day the world currency is still the US Petro Dollar and America has x6 b2 stealth bombers in the Pacific Ocean loaded with nuclear bombs. Every single word of all of this is just politicking and posturing. No other country CAN say no and that’s the point. For better or for worse.
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