• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    A common running thread about fascists is being fantasists. Trump’s tariff threat to force companies to re-shore is one of those fantasies. His plan makes sense if we are still living in 19th century when gunboat diplomacy, economic warfare, colonialism, or the general mindset of “might makes right” still works. But such reality has long gone and the world now has to be mulitateral. What Trump is doing is regression.

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      18 minutes ago

      trump himself has uses these tactics all his life, when he was getting sued or trying to get free service out of people.

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        9 minutes ago

        That’s true. His impeachment proceedings got distracted with the assassination of Khassem Soleimani in January 2020, and then COVID happened.