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So like... Is no one going to declare war on the rapidly unhinging, crumbling fascist empire that has openly admitted to basically wanting to expand its military and fuck the world? (hexbear.net)

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No? We just gonna sit around and let Nazi Germany 2.0 happen? Maybe waggle your finger a bit at them? Cool. Yeah. Okay. I love our leaders, they're so commited to the freedom and wellbeing of their people.

God I wish the Red Army was here to save our asses like last time.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake. Anyone who could do such a thing will rather watch the US eat itself and only use whatever resources they have to prepare for a post US world and defend their people during this global transition.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (21 children)

yeah I feel like the #1 obvious strategy for any country seeking the weakening or destruction of the US right now is just sit-back-and-enjoy . They're shooting themselves in the foot again and again, why interrupt that when they're going to be far worse off in 20 years?

[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 week ago (19 children)

You just keep believing that...Trump is doing what the other politicians didn't have the courage to do because they knew the US would take hit in the short-term, but in the end, the US will be in a much better position. The way they've been doing things over the past 30 years just isn't sustainable. Something had to be done about it so I'm willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

Trump is not reviving economic planning or industrial policy with his tariffs. Just because the US needed to re-industrialise, and just because protectionism would have been part of any re-industrialisation policy does not mean that Trump's policy is not phenomenally short sighted.

The simple fact is that without imposition of

Maximum import quotas (differentiated by good)
Capital export controls
A strong welfare program
An expansionary fiscal budget
Nationalisation of key industries

It is practically impossible for the US to re-industrialise. And each of these policies is critical because

Import quotas can directly limit the quantity of goods coming in unlike tariffs which have huge distortions effects and have a difficult to predict outcome
Preventing the outflow of dollars prevents people from cheating Import quotas or tariffs. Preventing the outflow of machinery allows that to be invested in your country.
This is needed to create a workforce that is actually healthy and smart enough to fix the economy.
This is needed to run your economy to its physical limits rather than artificially created financial ones.
This is needed because re-industrialisation requires the bourgeois class yo give up on a lot of profits, so you need to take control of industries away from them.

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