That article seems to assume that Trump gives a shit what happens to Americans. Are they on crack?
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I'm really tired of these disengenuous reports that make it sound like he's just misguided. He's not misguided, hes literally a traitor, actively destroying America at Putin's command.
We can't have a viable solution until we accept this. MAGA is treason, and it needs to be ferociously purged from our society.
All of the ‘Americans’ who spent a 4th of July holiday in Moscow recently, that’s about it
Every evaluation from every bias has no idea how this is supposed to be good in any way, other than the Trump people blindly trusting he's not an idiot (he's an idiot).
Hes a traitor, doing Putin's bidding.
Are there any reputable economists that think this has a chance?
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/02/21/donald-trumps-economic-masterplan-unherd/
I wouldn't say Varoufakis thinks he has a chance, by the end of this article, he's pretty clear that China could easily take the current role the US has as the world's reserve currency, but he gives Trump a lot more credit than most economists.
.he gives Trump a lot more credit than most economists
Has Varoufakis ever been right about anything? His political career showed him to be a naive lightweight who thought he could strong-arm the EU. He didn't understand the simple principle that you don't get into a showdown when someone else is holding almost all the cards.
His analysis pieces since then haven't showed much insight either.
And I'm still waiting for someone, anyone credible, to quantify the benefit to the US of the dollar's status as a global reserve currency. How many takeaway food orders per month can I afford now because of it?
And while we're at it, why would any country buy RMB unless they were a vassal state?
I’m hoping the global reserve becomes the Euro instead of the Yuan, but the EU is particularly good at dragging their feet on things. It’s good that they’re starting to wake up, but I honestly don’t think they’ve fully accepted what’s happening over here, nor are they moving with nearly the level of alacrity that they should.
They're feeling a lot of the same pressures from the Russian Far Right as we are, we're just farther along, although England got bitten pretty good by Brexit.
Maybe it takes a dictatorship who doesn't allow alrernative political perspectives to threaten their stability to control the world economy.
The people are fully aware and we're doing what we can to get things going but we have our own fair share of grifters slowing things down. Ursula von der Leyen is a horrible cunt who was essentially sent to Brussels so she'd stop bothering us in Germany and now she's president of the EU commission. I still think we can do it but it's gonna be despite politicians like her rather than because of them.
Interesting, thanks for the link... I dug a little deeper, this youtube interview was interesting as well. I feel he overestimates Trumps intelligence and foresight, but is certainly a take that should be considered in how it might all play out.
I feel he overestimates Trumps intelligence and foresight
I agree on this. I think he is giving Trump far too much benefit of the doubt. Trump is just one of those people who wants to watch the world burn.
Why do organizations continue to pretend anything Trump says is true? This bet was always only that these tariffs would benefit him personally by crashing the economy so that he could seize more power, and so far the first part is going swimmingly. Everybody knows that. AP certainly knows that. Why pretend otherwise?
The only thing I can figure is that a lot of news organizations think if they suck up to Trump now, then when he consolidates power he’ll kill them last. Which, in contrast, seems like a terrible bet.
The only thing I can figure is that a lot of news organizations think if they suck up to Trump now, then when he consolidates power he’ll kill them last. Which, in contrast, seems like a terrible bet.
This is exactly what's going on. It's been the same since 2016. People continue to play Trump's games by Trump's rules and wonder why they lose. They all gave him mainstream media coverage while complaining about all the free mainstream media coverage he generates with his antics. The vast majority of his inner circle from his first administration have ended up in disgrace, bankrupted, and/or in jail, and there's an endless stream of suck-up-wannabes lining up waiting for their turn, thinking that it won't happen to them. How many times have we seen people, organizations, and now even countries capitulate to Trump only for him to change his mind, renege on whatever agreements are in place, and do what he was going to do anyway because fuck you that's why?
And they keep playing the same game. They keep capitulating to Trump on Trump's terms, and he ends up shitting on them anyway.
And they keep lining up for more, because this time it will be different. This Time, Lucy won't pull the football away and laugh at me as I land flat on my ass. Nobody seems to be learning the lesson that Capitulation. Does. Not. Work.
I am quite convinced he's gambling with other people's (Americans) money, not his own....