"When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will"
WanderingThoughts
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A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man below says: "Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees N. latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees W. longitude."
"You must be an engineer," says the balloonist.
"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost.
"The man below says, "You must be a manager."
"I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"
"Well," says the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault."
Then next Trump would just threaten with tariffs again until the labeling had been removed. Then he'll threaten again for their oversized cars. There won't be an end to this.
I love that in Cyberpunk 2077 they're is often a channel on called "just ads". Of course in pure cyberpunk style those ads can be horrific.
With these things, it's not a continuous collapse. It partially recovers, then falls down again a bit lower than before.
It's why we have monuments everywhere, memorials and a few national holidays to reminds us.
Inviting his friends from Russia no doubt.
The rest of the world starts building a new world order and economic system, one that will be a lot less advantageous to the USA than the one they just trashed.
In points, but not in percentage. At least not yet. But it sure seems to want to measure up to all major crisis and leave its mark.
"He was just being hyperbolic." they told themselves.
Nope, turns out he was "saying it like it is" about what he was going to do and the "I don't care about you" was the truth.
And they have been trained to hate government, science and experts.