RE: US 2nd wave of trade tariffs $200B11 Jul 2018 13:08
You can't begin to second guess at the reasons behind these geopolitical moves mp79. There's a whole other level above the nation state that holds no allegiances to any country. On a national level adding a 10% tariff on something you don't produce is of course stupid and suicidal, but as I said, the level above pulling the strings doesn't care about that. Mark my words, sooner or later the US (and the West in general) is going to fall from grace big time - to allow for the rise of the East - and it's all by design. Traitors within our midst - although they never had any allegiance to the states they are betraying in the first place, but it seems a reasonable way to describe what is going on.
Tiger, the US is not run by idiots because regardless of whether Trump is an idiot or not (I tend to think he is not an idiot but a willing puppet), he is not running the country.