A Machiavellian Playbook for Power: The Real Strategy Behind Trump’s Tariffs

 

 

 

Peter Middleton>>

"Welcome to the Machiavellian hypothesis: that the real intent of these tariffs wasn’t economic success. It was political control. It was economic destabilization for the sake of corporate consolidation. It was the calculated reshaping of both domestic power and global alliances.

 

Because if failure was obvious and predictable, then the real question becomes: What was the actual objective? Maybe economic chaos wasn’t a byproduct. Maybe it was the plan.

 

It was a perfect loop: government policies created crisis conditions, crisis conditions justified bailouts, bailouts enabled consolidation, and consolidation centralized power.

 

What emerged was a new hybrid power structure: government disengaged from protecting its citizens, and corporations more powerful than ever. A merger of influence where the only people left with power were those at the top."

 

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A Machiavellian Playbook for Power: The Real Strategy Behind Trump’s Tariffs