• The team discusses the mounting recessionary effects of Trump’s massively arrogant and ignorant tariff assault on the world’s economies. Although China’s resistance has already forced Trump to walk back many of his blustering, the damage has been done and neither the US nor other economies will recover any time soon.
• As Douglas Macgregor says today, Trump has subjected the entire globe to a “crisis of inconsistency.” And this will not end well. Least of all for the US.
Note that the US does not need any of what Ukraine has to offer, not least rare earths that under more normal circumstances would be more readily available from Russia and China. This is even more the case with respect to oil, gas and aluminum which Macgregor says is what the deal mainly appears to be about.
The most valuable resources, Smith argues below, such as shale gas reserves and lithium deposits, sit disproportionately in parts of Ukraine currently or predictably soon to be under Russian control.
• Trump just messed around with China and found out as Geopolitical Analyst Ben Norton reveals the brutal truth about tariffs and how they are already backfiring on all fronts. This must-watch video details why Trump’s biggest mistake was picking a fight with China he cannot win.
JUSTIN PODUR—This idea – that we’re supposed to think about the effects of our work and therefore focus on the crimes of Western imperialists, not the crimes of their enemies – is one Western tankies take seriously.
If you’re wondering why the small group of us on social media around my podcast (the Anti-Empire Project) and Sina’s (The East is a Podcast) affectionately call each other “tankies” and the politics behind it, read on.
PAUL EDWARDS—There have been so many crimes and stupidities executed by American Presidents, so many vicious, murderous, imbecile actions taken by the roster of hopeless mediocrities who have dwelt in our Castle Dracula, that volumes couldn’t tell them all.
Our diseased system—in which psychopathic billionaires recruit vile scumbags with bags of money to buy political office so they can provide their pimps all the wealth our braindead citizenry can generate—reliably elects ugly, destructive pricks as Presidents.
