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Trump Tariffs: a Great Reset Against Globalism
- A Radical Dispatch
1) A ‘great reset’ against globalism
President Trump has launched a ‘great reset’ against globalism. The MAGA leader imposed reciprocal tariffs on countries around the world (since subject to a 90-day ‘renegotiation pause’) declaring “I know what the hell I am doing”, and that “you know what I am doing too”.
The Times reports 9th April 2025:
Trump’s tariffs seek to return industry and jobs to the US in an attempt to halt America being steadily hollowed out as manufacturing was outsourced and domestic living standards collapsed.
The Chinese Communist Party is predictably furious, especially since Trump exempted them from his 90-day renegotiation pause.
The Times reports 9th April 2025:
“…Explaining his decision, Trump said: ‘I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy, you know, they were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid. You have to have flexibility’. Trump insisted that China wanted to do a deal with him. ‘Look, nothing’s over yet,’ he said at an event with Nascar drivers at the White House. ‘But we have a tremendous amount of spirit from other countries, including China. China wants to make a deal. They just don’t know how quite to go about it.’ Asked about reported comments from the Greek prime minister that the EU could do a deal with the US, Trump said: ‘A deal could be made with every one of them … There’ll be fair deals. I just want fair. There will be fair deals for everybody’.”
Since WW2, the US empire had non-reciprocal trade arrangements in place with the rest of the world. These provided prosperity to developing nations in return for security with the - many times physical - US troop presence on the ground.
It was a ‘we give you bread, you let us rule’ arrangement in order to secure US economic interests. These were the advantages of dictating the global currency standard in the form of the US petrodollar. But such an arrangement is now coming to an end.
The below table lists the nature of this uneven, non-reciprocal US trading arrangement with many of these countries. The figures include hidden barriers such as currency manipulation and other non-tariff barriers that effectively made even-keel trade for the US very difficult, if not impossible.
The Daily Mail reports 5th April 2025:
Such uneven arrangements were the tolerable cost of US empire. But that empire is no longer willing to govern. Despite looming economic pain as a consequence of Trump’s move, the old post-WW2 consensus is no longer functional, nor indeed desired by most of the world’s populace. It has been falling apart at its seams for many years.
Trump needed to rebalance the world stage, which means levelling out the trade terms in return for pulling back on military presence around the world, and allowing each country to take more responsibility for its own concerns. This was inevitable, the fourth turning in a great generational cycle. Better for the US to manage its decline on their own terms than to allow chaos to emerge in total collapse.
This heralds a tactical retreat from the American unipolar world that emerged after the initial collapse of the Soviet-era bipolar world. We are returning gradually to a multipolar world, the likes of which humanity has not experienced since pre-WW1.
Multi-polarisation is true multilateralism in world affairs, and is hence a step toward decentralisation. Decentralisation in our international relations is intended to bring about less war and more cooperation. By actively retreating from countries around the world, MAGA is steering the US away from that other great choice facing humanity at this generational crossroads: a centralised one world globalist military technocracy.
In aid of decentralisation then, trade needs to be returned to a more level playing field in exchange for physical US military presence to be slowly withdrawn. Hence, the recent reciprocal military withdrawals from both Afghanistan and Syria, by the US and Russia respectively. All part of a grand regional settlement for peace, as Radical Media has previously forecasted.
Radical Media reports 19th February 2025:
For these reasons, the net effect of Trump tariffs will be good for the world, but only after some initial pain is felt.
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Maajid Nawaz for WARRIOR CREED: “The net result of President Trump’s actions in initiating these tariffs against everyone will be a levelling of the playing field and an end to the money laundering and siphoning off of money from individuals, from private and small family businesses into the hands of multinationals, corporates and supranational institutions. The banks will lose money. The overinflated stock market will self correct. Over leveraged interests will be forced to course correct. Imaginary money and paper money printing or quantitative easing and all of the interests behind the imaginary money and the bubbles will all be severely diminished. But…the net result through this, as long as people understand what’s going on and do not retreat, but hold the line, the individual beyond this will find themselves slightly more empowered, slightly less impoverished, and they will find themselves, when they look around them, they will find the countries that they inhabit to be a lot more self-sufficient and manufacturing and production will return home. That will be the net effect of Trump’s tariffs. The playing field will be levelled. And ultimately, a free trade world order will emerge, but one that us fairer than the one that is currently in place, because it was about time that there was a rebalancing of the world order.”
Such decoupling from globalism, global finance and globalist permawar includes treating Israel no different to the other nations of the world, on a level playing field. It is in this context that Netanyahu rushed to DC pleading Trump personally to exempt Israel.
And it is for all the above stated reasons that Netanyahu returned empty handed.
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Journalist: “Do you plan to reduce the tariffs…on Israeli goods?”
President Trump: “Well, we're talking about a whole new trade. Maybe not. Maybe not. Don't forget, we help Israel a lot. You know, we give Israel $4 billion a year. That's a lot. Congratulations, by the way. But we give Israel billions of dollars a year.”
Israel is going to be treated just like everyone else. And US public opinion seems to be okay with that.
2) Ignore the usual suspects
The ‘experts’ responsible for destroying our economies by locking down our nations during Covid and advocating money printing are the same voices now claiming that Trump’s tariffs will ‘destroy the economy’. It is safe to completely ignore them. In fact, and at this stage, doing the exact opposite of what they counsel is more likely to bring better results.
ZeroHedge reports 7th April 2025:
Truth be told, they are not really Keynesian either. They are corporatist globalists. And as Covid amply demonstrated these globalist ‘experts’ do not work for the people. They work for Big Money. It is no surprise that they would actively seek to sabotage Trump’s attempted ‘great reset’ against globalism.
The Times reports 7th April 2025:
Trump’s tariffs would primarily affect tech billionaires, banks, hedge funds and other Big Money interests, all the factions that corporatist-media outrage is designed to defend.
Big Money has benefited all these years from ever increasing globalism while transferring wealth and industry to technocratic one-party states such as China for cheap labour and supplies, in search of never ending profit. All this while domestic markets collapse in a state of drug addicted, mental health-afflicted, atomised, anti-community, materialistic despair. It is no surprise that Big Money was unified in its disdain.
The Times reports 7th April 2025:
The Times reports 7th April 2025:
While nationwide protests were arranged (funded by billionaire interests) in an effort to portray Trump’s anti-globalism effort as itself a tool of billionaires.
The Times reports 6th April 2025:
But again, the opposite is true. Contrary to claims of a ‘billionaire takeover,’ most billionaires were riled, including the late-comer and nominal Trump supporter Elon Musk.
The Times reports 7th April 2025:
“Elon Musk, a key adviser to President Trump, has shared a video which extols the virtue of free market economics. The Tesla owner, who runs the Department of Government Efficiency, has already called for a ‘zero-tariff zone’ between Europe and the United States in a sign of tension within the US administration. Musk and Tesla have already suffered because of the tariff plan. His company ships several car parts over from China, which faces tariffs of 34 per cent.”
Billionaire Bill Ackman is another nominal Trump supporter who - like billionaire Elon Musk - also sniped at Trump.
The Times reports 7th April 2025:
Despite attempting a shameful retreat once he realised that he could not outdo MAGA.
The billionaires most affected by Trump’s looming tariffs will be the Big Tech leaders who are so instrumental to globalism’s desired technocracy. Any support they hitherto voiced for MAGA has always been late in the making, and nominal at best.
The Times reports 8th April 2025:
And Big Pharma too, will take a hit.
The Times reports 9th April 2025:
Not bad for a day’s work at MAGA, then.
3) Trump is defiant
Despite the predictable chorus of outrage from Big Money interests, Trump has refused to concede.
Instead doubling-down on the logic that such moves are necessary.
And so far, Trump has been rewarded by over 50 countries agreeing to seek a renegotiation of their non-reciprocal tariff arrangements with the US. This is precisely what Trump wanted, and why the 90 day pause has been agreed to.
The Times reports 6th April 2025:
Such news had caused the markets to expect a recovery.
ZeroHedge reports 8th April 2025:
No doubt, now boosted by Trump’s announcement of a 90-day ‘renegotiation pause’.
The Times reports 9th April 2025:
“Almost every American trading partner now has a 10 per cent baseline tariff on goods arriving in the US. Economists said this still carried the potential for a recession, although Trump’s U-turn stabilised markets after another rollercoaster day around the globe.
…The president’s tone had changed dramatically from the night before, when he told an audience of Republican senators that ‘countries are calling me up, kissing my ass … they are dying to make a deal’. On Wednesday he suggested he was rewarding those countries. ‘I did a 90-day pause for the people that didn’t retaliate because I told them, ‘If you retaliate, we’re going to double it.’ That’s what I did with China, because they did retaliate. So we’ll see how it all works out. I think it’s going to work out amazing’. Senior members of Trump’s team insisted that the pause to enable countries to negotiate better trade deals was part of his master plan all along…The S&P 500, considered the barometer of corporate America, was up 9.52 per cent, its best percentage rise since March 2020. The technology-heavy Nasdaq rose 12.16 per cent, the biggest percentage gain since January 2002.”
In addition, Trump is demanding interest rate cuts so that the cost of mortgages stays down.
The Times reports 8th April 2025:
The Bank of England appears to have paid heed.
The Times reports 7th April 2025:
The Times reports 7th April 2025:
“About 1.34 million homeowners are due to come off existing deals between April and December, according to the City regulator the Financial Conduct Authority. Many will be coming off five-year fixed rates taken out when borrowing costs were much lower, so any rate cut will would ease the pain of higher repayments.”
And as investors abandon stocks for a more stable sovereign debt, falling gilt yields lower the cost of government borrowing.
The Times reports 7th April 2025:
The Times reports 7th April 2025:
4) Child-labour embroiled net-zero policies and cheap-labour fashion suffer
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