You'd think for trade you'd start with negotiations, even if things go bad then you turn to targeted tariffs.
Rather we get scatterbrained tariffs, and we piss everyone around the world off so that we have no friends in this fight...
Honestly though I'm not even sure there is a strategy outside a sort of "government capture". Trump and is cronies break as much as possible regardless of ideology, and now if you want to legislate and fix it, you have to go through them and pay the bribe. Trade, etc, all through them.
I'm not in the US so watching this play out is like watching episodes of The Three Stooges. — one's not sure whether to burst out into hysterical laughter or cry.
Right, not only is most of the world pissed off but we're just gobsmacked in disbelief.
We keep pinching ourselves just to check it's not some mad dream.
Every dictarship has some incompetent nephew doing the mr.tenpercent on all imported goods. up next police checkpoints seezing money and demanding "favors" from beautiful woman . Oh and cant have a govoffice without the clueless spending a buisness day waiting for processing of some form, missing the "pay up for speed" signal .
It's like 90s Russia. Break the system, let whoever pays the right bribes privatize the pieces, long term stability and the good of the economy be damned
Rather we get scatterbrained tariffs, and we piss everyone around the world off so that we have no friends in this fight...
Honestly though I'm not even sure there is a strategy outside a sort of "government capture". Trump and is cronies break as much as possible regardless of ideology, and now if you want to legislate and fix it, you have to go through them and pay the bribe. Trade, etc, all through them.