The Strategy of Economic Warfare: The Invisible Sword of Donald Trump
February 6, 2025โข248 words
The combat of WAR and an economic WAR have a lot of similarities. You do have to be skilled, aggressive, know your enemy and your strong attributes and limitations. Both skills are needed although one may be more natural. ~ Richard Marcinko
To me, the economic war with China is everything. And we have to be maniacally focused on that. If we continue to lose it, we're five years away, I think, ten years at the most, of hitting an inflection point from which we'll never be able to recover. ~ Stephen K. Bannon
Europe is war. Economic war. It is the increase of hostilities between the countries. Germans are denigrated as being cruel, the Greeks as fraudsters, the French as lazy. Ms. Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood. ~ Marine Le Pen
Trade is war, not cooperation. He threatens Canada, Mexico, Columbia, China, and the European Union with economic devastation, his tariff blade held aloft menacingly, until they buckle to his will.
Trade deficits are the evidence of weakness to him, the response always very simple: just make the opponent suffer until he gives in.
Canadian industries-automobiles, dairy products, lumber are unnecessary, Trump says. If they refuse to comply, they will face the full brunt of American economic might.