• Jhex@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    People keep repeating this. It’s all on purpose because billionaire snap buy everything cheap

    My question continues to be that, such strategy makes sense if you know what you bought cheap would be valuable again. However, trumptard has antagonised the WORLD, even if trade resumes, everyone would jack up prices for the USA to include the risk of another wave of stupid and nobody would sign any long-term agreement so you’d wind up not knowing if your product would cost 10, 20 or 50% more next quarter…

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      8 hours ago

      Because people are downright ignoring who he’s working for. His actions make absolute sense as a Russian asset. And no, he’s not trying to screw the US allies, at least that is not his main objective.

      EU, Canada, UK, they’re just collateral damage. They’ll hurt but they’ll recover because while loosing the US they still have each other and China. And in their recovery they’ll help isolating the US. After they learn to live without the US it’s game over.

      His main target is the US itself. He’s trying to collapse the US economy and isolate them to prevent from rising up again. He’s trying to destroy the US reputation in the international community. He tried it once but now he’s making sure it sticks. With a broken economy and no allies the US will loose its capacity to project military power. Even if a Democrat is elected nobody will ever trust the US again.

      Trump works for Putin, it’s completely obvious. His job is to sabotage the US. And he’s doing a great job. And by the time Americans face the facts it will be too late. Maybe it already is.

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      15 hours ago

      There’s probably multiple motivations. He serves a motley-crew of white christian nationalists, oligarchs (many with very fascist ideologies themselves), and himself. I think he’s kinda acting like a power-broker/deal-maker for many different people (similar to his buddy Epstein). The numbers don’t make sense because they don’t really matter if the goals are to 1) cause the world to lose faith in the US 2) can be used to negotiate things like de-dollarization 3) can be used to solicit bribes from politicians and businesses. If they really want to bring manufacturing back to the US, the dollar must be unseated as the world’s reserve currency, and there must be very bad stagflation so that we get enough inflation and depressed wages so people are desperate enough to work for roughly the same real wages as Chinese factory workers. If the US is less dependent on other nations for things like manufacturing, the US can do things like invade countries, set up slave and death camps, etc, with less consequence. And the chosen oligarchs get to rule over their own fiefdoms of oppressed workers.