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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan someone please seriously tell me why trump is starting trade wars with our allies?
Who benefits from this?
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,938 posts)your answer reflects a belief in the "Russian influence."
But that can't be true - IQ45 said that there is no such thing!
The CORRECT answer:
HE IS AN ASSHOLE!!!!!!!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)One assumes that Mueller is not diverted.
librechik
(30,676 posts)of any opportunities which arise from the sinking democratic ships.
OneBro
(1,159 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,902 posts)(and he's said as much) that trade wars are easy to win. He thinks the world economy is like the small part of NYC that he knows and abused for so many years.
ooky
(8,929 posts)About a month from now he'll be saying "who would have believed trade wars are so hard"?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)'loose lips, sinks ships'
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Russia benefits from creating chaos in America and separating America from our allies.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)He has kompromat on Trump, and he benefits from the U.S. losing its standing in the world. He couldn't have put a better agent of destruction in the Oval Office.
Everything Trump has done has served that purpose:
** Appointing people who don't believe in our government agencies to lead them. Why? To dismantle them.
** Offending our allies and supporting dictators
** Pulling the US out of successful, hard-won alliances
** Enacting polices that fly in the face of human rights and send the US stock market into tailspins
grantcart
(53,061 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,192 posts)Do you believe any of those countries will approve anything Trump from this day forward? Hotels, buildings, merchandise?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)what were importing now. For example
he doesnt think we should be enriching other countries by importing aluminum. We should br using our own.
He is doing his best to isolate us yet be self reliant on what we need.
On the other hand he wants to punish other countries for taking advantage of us and enriching themselves at our expense.
In actuality hes doing what all dictators do which is to isolate us by consolidating his control. Its the reason for the wall and the Muslim travel ban and the refusal to allow immigration.
First he will isolate the country then hell lock the doors to immigrants and then hell probably start purging non desirables. There might be a lot of trials against terrorists which will include people like us. He will demand total loyalty from everyone, including the citizens.
mahina
(17,701 posts)I hope we can recycle what we need to use. That mine was a devastation zone- in Canada.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)start a recycling program for their aluminum. But Trump doesnt care about the environment. He wants to open up our National parks to drilling for oil and mining anyway.
Then he can claim he created all those new jobs and he can triumphantly claim America Is Great Again.
KT2000
(20,588 posts)coalitions make all members stronger. Breaking them apart makes trump feel he is the strongest. Divide and conquer.
dawg
(10,624 posts)"Clowns break shit."
Trueblue Texan
(2,443 posts)applegrove
(118,793 posts)to provide the smelting power.
JHB
(37,162 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)No collusion, my ass.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)He wants a win. Any win. He doesn't care against whom he is winning or what he is winning, but he wants a win.
Because Trump is weak and needy and wants to be adored and celebrated at all cost.
and he surrounds himself with fringe "experts" - one throw around conspiracy theories and "what we ought to do" fringe solutions - of which I would guess this counterproductive plan is one.
Raine
(30,540 posts)Mike Niendorff
(3,463 posts)... this might be an easier question to answer.
(* in simple terms : no, I don't put it past him AT ALL to gin up these panics in order to profiteer from the resulting market swings)
MDN
mahina
(17,701 posts)In addition to playing for personal political gain, nothing would surprise me less than him shorting the USA.
I hope and pray that we can know, one day soon.
ProfessorGAC
(65,191 posts)You are assuming that the free flow of capital exists to execute a profiteering scheme.
That's an assumption i can't accept. He has nowhere close to the net worth claimed. Already far too much leverage.
He would need to borrow more money to profiteer, and anyone who had the capital to lend the money would just do the profiteering on their own.
Now, had you said that the foreign puppet masters are wanting this to execute THEIR profiteering schemes, i would probably buy in.
TimeSnowDemos
(476 posts)He doesn't understand how the economy works.
ProfessorGAC
(65,191 posts)Because none of them know how the economy works either!
TimeSnowDemos
(476 posts)Then again finding ANY politician who understands it as it relates to average folks is a big ask most years.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,197 posts)Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)Also, the moron doesn't think we have, or need, any 'allies'.
The moron thinks it's 'murika against the world.