The Illusion of Strategy: Tariffs, Decline, and the Empire That Can’t Admit It’s Falling

 

 

"The United States is not leading a trade war, instead, it's staging a cover-up. Behind the bluster of tariffs, the performative raids, and the carefully constructed language of economic nationalism lies the deeper truth that Professor Richard Wolff has been warning us about: this is what imperial decline looks like when it’s camouflaged as strength. The economic tools being used, tariffs, interest rate hikes, labor market deregulation, and child labor rollbacks, aren’t signs of innovation or resilience. They are symptoms of 

panic, designed not to win anything, but to delay the reckoning that everyone in power knows is coming."

 

read analysis by MARY GEDDRY