THE British media are doing their usual sterling job of ‘understanding’ international economics and geopolitics. The Daily Mail was once a pretty nationalist, right-wing outlet. They opposed the EU, for instance. Like the rest of the media, they were captured, and now spend most of their time telling us that obvious men are stunningly gorgeous women.
Their understanding of the ‘tariff wars’ is on about the same level.
So for the benefit of those who might be tempted to agree with the Daily Mail and all the other legacy media outlets, here is the actual situation:
Huge tariffs exist on US goods.
Trump introduces reciprocal tariffs.
‘He’s a madman! Why is he doing tariffs! Trump is insane! The stock market is way down!’
Trump holds firm while 75 countries either back down and beg to negotiate or back down and scrap all tariffs on US goods. Trump has successfully isolated China and forced a major renegotiation of trade tariffs unfair to the US by other countries. At the same time US companies rush to bring jobs home. Investment in the US soars.
Trump pauses tariffs for negotiations. He is always ready to do a deal, on his terms. The stock market bounces back (we should note the important point too that the stock market is not the economy). And Trump has everyone ready to do a better deal while China is left with massive tariffs.
It’s a swift realignment of the entire global trade network, beneficial to the US.
‘Haha, Trump blinks! Trump has backed down! He’s weak!’
The level of understanding from 99 per cent of people, who are incapable of comprehending anything thanks to the mainstream media and the total stupidity of the economic consensus for the last 80 years . . . you might as well ask a toilet bowl to explain things to you.
Trump and many other MAGA figures operate on a completely different level from the mainstream NPCs with their programmed 80-year devotion to failed systems, failed institutions and the failed economic theories of an expert class who carefully managed their way to creating a Chinese monster ready to devour them while turning their own countries into increasingly backwards indebted sh*tholes.
The status quo is set up to ensure that China benefits from Western nations declining and failing, while a small number of Western globalist traitors profit from that. The vast majority of ordinary workers find they now live in countries which are falling apart but still claim to be rich. Their living standards and opportunities relentlessly diminish, their towns have no industries, and the best they can hope for is a welfare payment that keeps them in dependent poverty. At the same time people with no skills and backward attitudes are imported by the same economic genius consensus that shifted all manufacturing to China.
The tariffs are the other side of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It’s a massive attempt to reform the entire global system before it’s too late. DOGE identifies the waste and corruption within, which has a global effect funding madness and war elsewhere. That is all money which is being stolen from the US taxpayer and artificially tipping the world towards insane, non-productive, self-harming ideologies. The tariffs do the same thing with the global economic system, identifying the injustices that harm the US and seeking to stop massive waste and massive systemic disadvantage.
At the same time they address the elephant in the room: Chinese power, Chinese expansion and dependency on Chinese manufacturing.
In both economics and foreign policy it’s recognised that business as usual eventually, possibly quite soon, will reach a gigantic US crash when the debt just can’t be met any more, and that Chinese modern colonialism could reach to the US in those circumstances (some would say if you look at Canada or some US institutions it already has reached North America, but it would become much more obvious with a bankrupt US).
Trump has already got China-dependent nations to recognise that they are more dependent on the US. He’s already got China isolated in a way that is quicker and much more effective than the failed attempt to isolate a much weaker Russia was.
And mainstream media are all ‘He blinked!’ With many people, especially those on the right who still abide by the useless magical fetishes of the 1945 settlement, believing it.
Whether this Trump administration can pull it off and reform the entire global economic system while being opposed at every step by the Democrats, the still deluded Republican in Name Only class, the transnational institutions, the Chinese and the globalist leaders of nations such as Canada and Britain (and central banks which want an entirely different solution, the techno-feudal globalist one of copying Chinese oppression) remains to be seen.
But it is at least a serious attempt which recognises the actual situation and wants a way out beneficial to the majority of ordinary people.
This article appeared in Jupplandia on April 10, 2025, and is republished by kind permission.
