You don’t get what you want; you get what you deserve.

Look through a clear lens:

1. Billions in FDI flow into the United States as a headline number.

2. The reality - that tariffs make foreign-sourced goods more expensive.

3. The creation of a sovereign wealth fund.

If you didn’t know, this is how much of the world operates. People are acting like these are heinous and unprecedented acts, when in reality, anyone who has been around the world has seen these things before. BTW, China has tariffs, and the country remains highly deflationary following its draconian lockdowns, from which it never fully recovered.

If I buy something online and ship it to another country, I get hit with a big fat tax. Interestingly enough, if I had shipped something to the U.S. previously, I wouldn’t have paid anything. Now, people are acting like these executive orders will trigger the next Great Depression domestically when, in reality, the real impact will likely fall on trading partners that exploited trade and are now trying to play hardball.

80% Nationalism / 20% Enablers

Observe all of POTUS’s moves—most of what is mentioned above is largely domestic for the United States. Then there’s the matter of returning the favor to the 20% of enablers, simply by following the money—as is human nature. Remember, nobody is perfect. One should appreciate the perks of the 80%.

Because part of the 20% will involve things like a Russia-China-United States tri-bloc alliance of sorts. Executing such a shift will invert previous norms and relationships.

This is why DOGE is a slippery slope. It will strategically target certain elements of excess waste while turning a blind eye to others simply because of the enablers. This is more of a changing of the guard for the deep state, which will still shelter the enablers.

Such is life,