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@ ScottyB
2025-03-01 00:48:14
The European countries in lockstep with the old guard of the U.S. State Department have expanded their influence through the vehicle of NATO merely by leveraging the export of the U.S. Dollar.
They’ve made a good deal for themselves even sweeter by failing to meet their own financial obligations to the organization.
In other words, through US inflationary activity the EU leaders have been able to artificially expand their influence and power in the region *while also deindustrializing*.
In the past power expansion required superior means of production and energy generation.
Russia pushed back against this bought-for influence and the west quickly learned no amount of money (and they’ve tried it all) can win without the productive capabilities to back it up. Too many dollars chasing too few munitions. At some point, no amount of dollar adjustment fixes the lack of production capabilities.
Trump tariffs are an attempt to reverse this and incentivize the growth of western production again. I think he also understands our dollar exports aren’t as poignant of a weapon as it once was, and continuing down this path not only doesn’t help the war (it prolongs death and destruction) but it also severely hampers American economic wellbeing. Enough is enough, that’s his stance.
The EU leaders have lived in their artificial power bubble for too long, they fail to see it has already been popped.
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