As Trump is gonna put his insane tariffs in place, what do you guys think is the goal here? Because I fear that he is playing 4D chess but making it look like he is playing checkers, and if his tariffs are out into place it’ll undoubtedly anger and radicalise lots of Americans especially, and just cause a general shitshow for approval ratings and threaten the domestic safety of capital. Thoughts?
I think this is highly unlikely. Now maybe there are certain elements in the US, in and around the Trump administration, who in their most optimistic fantasies like to dream of something like that, but frankly i don’t see it happening. Not least of all because it is basically impossible for any US government to undertake such a sweeping nationalization of the military industrial complex as you describe and as would be necessary for such an ambitious undertaking. The MIC is too powerful, too influential, much like the banks, big pharma, big tech, etc. They are more powerful than the politicians, and that includes Trump. At this point i don’t think America is capable of ridding itself of its neoliberalism. They are too addicted to it, even as it is clear that it’s what’s dragging them down and destroying their empire.