Some economists think tariffs never make sense. Others, think that with strategy, thinking carefully about where to apply them, to which countries, on which items, what the different impacts will be, and informing and working with your allies…then tariffs could be a net good despite the costs. That’s not what we got from Trump.
With Trump, we got hectic tariffs that require a daily chart to manage them all. It doesn’t make sense to build a factory based on a short-term tariff that could change at any moment due to a variety of reasons.
Putting tariffs on every country cuts your leverage over any particular one country.
If the goal is to get specific industries back in the US, then you want highly targeted tariffs.
Liberation day tariffs were based on a simple formula and they were absurd on their face. The administration just didn’t do their homework when coming up with tariffs.
Trump ignored free trade agreements that the US had made with countries.
Trump enacts tariffs for a variety of personal reasons that don’t make sense, like tariffing Canada for fentanyl, even though US fentanyl mostly comes through Mexico. If I’m another country watching erratic tariffs, I don’t really know what to do to avoid tariffs, and I’m going to start planning with other countries how to counter this erratic country called the Untied States of America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO8b9CzyEdU
Many American military vets went to Ukraine to fight out of a sense of needing to put their skills to use defending freedom. 1/2
In the First Arab-Israeli War, Jews were forced from their homes and forcibly displaced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh3g2cSrcG8
Islam is the fastest growing religion, but mainly by Muslims having higher birth rates.
BREAKING: Trump Misreads Jobs Report, Threatens To Cut Off Trade
Europeans talk about, and are decoupling from, the US like how the US does China due to Trump’s erratic and threatening behavior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL_JZmdVzfg
Turkey is working hard to maintain and expand its influence in Africa, sometimes at the expense of France.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m-DUMEg-x4
Argentina raising their emphasis on the Falkland islands is caused primarily by two things: domestic politics where Melei wants to look tough compared to his political opponents, and Trump indicating that he may more support Argentina’s claim compared to America’s previous position. Trump makes such statements, seemingly not realizing the real world consequences they may have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9-28b9mNyI
Egypt is allowing China to test their planes against Western fighters. This makes China better able to defeat Western countries in war. Egypt is not a good friend to the United States even though the US gives $1.4 to $2 billion in foreign assistance to Egypt each year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjfZUmJu6eE
Are Political Influencers Secretly Paid? Sometimes, yeah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4S-emd5iK4
By making it extremely hard to gain standing, the Supreme Court has ruled that a president can blatantly act illegally and steal Congress’s power. The Court has deeply damaged a basic tenet of the Constitution by allowing a president to use governmental power in cases where he clearly has no such power. If the president wants to do something outside his core powers, he must have Congress authorize that power and spending. The Constitution is black and white on this, but most “Conservatives” on the Supreme Court don’t care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ixLz2CwbU