The article is relatively short, and I didn’t want to try and summarize it in case I introduce my own biases. Here is the subtitle:

The emphasis on making deals and showing quick results is coming at the cost of a long-term vision

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    need 2 tracks: 1. put out short term fires. 2. unspecified long range vision

    Long term vision has to decouple from US military empire. Any defense spending has to be to protect from US empire instead of being its usual colonial stooge for force amplification. Speaking of it makes more short term fires. Both short and long term pressure on foreign auto makers creates short term fires too. Assisting US’s demonic Latin America policy does not put out any short term fires.

    So track 1 appears to be “do nothing so we can die slowly”. All discussion of track 2 is led by CIA stooges that want us to continue being CIA stooges. Absurd arctic defense scare instead of welcoming any investment that we are not doing for Arctic development.

    Every speech permitted in track 2 discussions is traitorous speech. Failure to understand who our enemy is, and gaslighting that it is still the CIA enemies, puts track 2 firmly on the wrong track.

  • How about identify what the USA needs from us and stop shipping those items? Softwood, potash, steel, aluminum, water, to name a few. Maybe if we start, the rest of the world will join in and starve the USA into negotiating.

    Cut back on border security and military spending that was only done to keep Trumpet (he makes a lot of unpleasant noise) happy. Use that money to pay the workers and businesses affected by such a strategy.

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      We could destroy the White House again.

      Nah, that would mean crossing the border, and even that isn’t a good enough reason to go to the states.

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        To be perfectly fair, rocket-propelled explosive technologies have come a long, long way even in just the past 30 years.

        You could potentially get it done with a few kilos of C-4 and a DJI drone.

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    18 hours ago

    T’was the oddest thing. A nightmare literally just woke me up. Trump corrected me on something, it made sense and he was right. The notion was so profoundly absurd that it startled me awake.