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Might Imperial Collapse Be The Best Thing Ever To Happen To America?
Yes or no?
Trump isn’t taking an axe to the American economy; the man’s dropping nuclear weapons on it.
In announcing punitive tariffs on goods from the European Union, The United Kingdom, China, South Africa, Nigeria, Brazil, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Norway, Venezuela, Guyana and Cambodia, the President of the world’s largest economy kicked off a global trade war.
America’s poorly educated, who make up the majority of Trump’s political base, cheered their principal’s actions to the rafters, blissfully ignorant of the extraordinary ramifications which the tariff hike will have.
Already, China and South Korea have put aside their historical grievances with their former brutalizer and colonizer — Japan — to co-ordinate an equally powerful response to the inexplicably harmful decision from the commander-in-chief.
The United Kingdom, whose rupture from the European Union has left between a rock and a hard place is working how best to respond to Washington.
But this article isn’t necessarily about the rest of the world, but about those who were nescient enough to give their vote to the least qualified individual to occupy the White house.