Good or bad, if the Trump tariff regime is instituted it will upend a lot of people who are comfortable in and with the present system. From Simplicius at simplicius.substack.com:
Caesar-like rebirth, chemotherapy for globalism, or just Perestroika for the End of History?
The establishment shrieks grow louder each day over Trump’s disassembling of the so-called ‘Post-War Order’. It is an order that served to benefit only the global finance elites, allowing them to create vast cartel enterprises which could bypass the sovereign laws of any nation to facilitate predatory arbitrage via scams like NAFTA, the WTO, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), et al, where the corporations could make a killing by exploiting their ability to simultaneously impoverish nations while bilking their poor workers.
Last month the Economist proclaimed that the “rupture” of this mythical order on which Western imperialism has balanced for 70 years is ‘gaining pace’:
Likening the Donald to a mafia don, the Rothschild-owned Economist rag served up a platter of fear-inducing threats from its globalist clientele, like Germany’s Merz, who warned that NATO may be dead by this June. Their opening stanza admonishes that we are only now entering a “might-is-right” world, where big powers bully small ones:
Fast approaching is a might-is-right world in which big powers cut deals and bully small ones. Team Trump claims that its dealmaking will bring peace and that, after 80 years of being taken for a ride, America will turn its superpower status into profit. Instead it will make the world more dangerous, and America weaker and poorer.
What a relief it is to know that our now waning ‘golden age’ existed totally in absence of strong powers like the US bullying other nations.
