Captain Chaos definitely does not have the cards – which as even South Pacific penguins know, are all made in China.
The key MAGA issue is not foreign policy, but how to structurally re-balance an economic paradigm in danger of an extinction event.
Even if Trump 2 is ephemeral, it seems that this will not take the Western world back to the crazy Biden years.
As America metaphorically turns its guns on China, Uncle Sam can be sure that any trouble emanating from Europe over Greenland or anything else can be easily dealt with.
Our only “crisis” is this: we’ve nurtured the monster of systemic inefficiency that now suffocates us.
In 1997, veteran U.S. diplomat George Kennan stated that ‘expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American foreign policy in the entire post-Cold War era’.
Although you may not have read Chang’s latest screed, if you have ever perused the offerings of any airport book store, you will be familiar with this genre that is full of scary and lurid headlines regarding world domination.
Trump’s actions were neither ‘spur of the moment’, nor whimsical. The ‘tariff solution’ had been pre-prepared by his team over years.