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That's a good way to have foreign companies that are currently invested in the US to pull all of their investments and fire everyone working for them over here.
Everything he does is just making us more isolated from the world.
I'm increasingly seeing that as the point. I've believed since 2016 that he's either intentionally or being easily manipulated to serve Russia's interests and obviously I'm not alone here.
But at this point, dismantling US soft political power, military power, economic power - every action Trump is taking is directly damaging the US with no apparent self-interested payoff. Sure, it's plausibly deniable and just on the edge of conspiracy-sounding to the public and mainstream, but the theory that Trump acting to destroy the US on behalf of Russia is currently the best fit to the evidence.
100% agree. He's been a Russian agent from the start working towards the dismantling of the US in every way. Including, I think, trying to push the country so far that it splits up so the US is no more. Putin's revenge on the US "winning" the Cold war.
Make America Go Alone!
The flip side of that is that Putin deserves the Gaddafi treatment for having inflicted Trump on us (even without his aggression against Ukraine).
This is the lens through which I see his actions, too. I have one additional twist, which is if it doesn’t benefit him personally, it needs to go. Even if it’s replaced with something 10% the value, he now owns 100% of that 10%.
@Xanthobilly @ReallyActuallyFrankenstein partly this. Possibly also dementia + power-crazed wannabe dictator I suspect
That is why tariffs make sense. If you were preparing the US for WW3 then you would do exactly what Trump is doing.
He's stupid enough to believe that autarky is a desirable situation, without actually knowing what the word means.
It can be under certain circumstances, its generally desireable for a country to be able to feed itself for example, and being able to produce products yourself is useful when negotiating trade agreements. The problem is when autarky becomes conflated with isolationism.