China managed to lock up people in their appartement for months during covid. Americans are ready to murder someone if their coffee isn’t ready in time. In a battle of will, who will last the longest?

If Trump causes the dollar to crash, paying back that amount will get a lot easier.

Probably provoke every neighbor until it’s a big active conflict in the entire region and then say they’re the only one capable of “maintaining peace” aka kill everybody so better start sending weapons.

The supermarket bread that looks and feels like a squeaky toy. Best to avoid that one.

Many flashbacks to 80s movies and many speeches including “to protect our way of life”.

In China his competitors are now too far ahead and in Europe they don’t want no swasticar anymore. That leaves only the US market.

And sell tickets for the life boats to the highest bidder

As fertilizer, Trump is more useful.

I see. So that’s how you run a country as a business.

Ah, no. The real tariffs come when the EU starts to charge them through the nose for using EU customer data. This is on the agenda for when some real retaliation is needed.

I guess it’s not that different from permanently living in a fallout shelter.

Ukraine can surrender to Russia without USA’s help. Trump deal is the same as surrendering, but where USA also gets a cut.

Also the belief the future will be better and more abundant. People need that as possible parents being scared of the future are not having (more) children.

And the society we live in tells us money, expensive status symbols and varying experiences you can brag about are the most important things. Having many children stands in the way of that

And make other countries see clean tech as the patriotic choice

Getting caught

The point is to give Russia the advantage and turn the countries of Europe all into vazal states to rule over them like an emperor. EU really doesn’t like that plan of course.

It used to be a bully you could reason and work with, and that at least understood give and take. Now it’s just a drunk bully, starting fights for whatever.

Big pal Putin didn’t hesitate to use gas and oil as a weapon. Trump tries to do the same with trade and the dollar. Run away fast is the only answer.

Oh yeah, that time the USA kept lying about weapons of mass destruction found there and Washington not liking being called out by almost everyone.