Why does Trump hate America?

This is what happens when you put someone with the emotional maturity of a middle school boy in charge of the world’s largest economy and the world’s most powerful military.

“What is striking about this picture, setting aside all these nitty-gritty details, is how much it mirrors Trump’s Iran debacle, another war not so much of choice but of whim. Both illustrate the difference between theoretical and de facto power. On paper, the U.S. could convincingly defeat Iran militarily. It could invade the country, dismantle its military and government, eliminate the threats to the Strait of Hormuz. But that would require vast sums of blood and treasure, in addition to huge domestic economic pain, something the U.S. simply has no appetite for. That lack of appetite became clear soon after the war started and it’s shaped everything since. There’s zero domestic support for that in the U.S. And the U.S. has no pressing strategic interest to do that, certainly not at the cost it would require. Meanwhile, the Iranian government is in a fight for its life. America’s capacity to inflict pain on Iran is immense. But Iran’s willingness to endure pain is far greater.

 

“This almost perfectly mirrors Canada’s current position vis a vis the U.S. The U.S. economy dwarfs Canada’s. The impact of an all-out trade war on Canada is vastly greater than the impact on the U.S. But Canada’s whole society and politics are consumed with this issue. That is even more the case when it emerged over the weekend that Trump is not only demanding unequal trade terms but attacking Canadian sovereignty in the form of demanding an end to domestic protections for the French language and a veto over Canadian trade deals with other countries. If anything, Prime Minister Mark Carney is trying to keep up with popular anger at the U.S. rather than getting the Canadian public will back up his hard line.”

I have a feeling that Trump won’t pull the trigger on these new tariffs. And I have a feeling that his new threats against nations that trade with Iran will backfire massively. But in the interim, unemployment will go up and inflation will increase. Not a good look for the Trump cult GOP for the midterms.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumps-wars-of-whim-and-how-he-loses-them/sharetoken/70000d60-ba16-477f-a563-2b9f835114b0 

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