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1. Ultimately the reason the global economies are stuck in the mud is because more of the US tax burden falls on US consumers. That depresses consumer demand. The GOP tax cuts that shifted the tax burden depress demand and prices follow. US does better mostly because our workers
2. do not share social safety nets that makes them more efficient for labor exploitation than EU/JP allowing US firms to remain competitive in overseas markets. As our consumers participate less in the global economy it impairs the demand for foreign partners goods and services
3. required to avoid deflation. If the Trump tariffs succeed in depressing US firms' overseas sales sufficiently to begin the global economic recession, it will lead to increased armed conflicts and the corresponding population dislocation that feeds the scapegoating and
4. resulting social stress that Russia uses to create political unrest. None of this is random. The GOP is a Kremlin front headed by a Kremlin puppet. And the end is near.
