I don’t disagree that Trump’s tarrif policies are crude, rude and chaotic. They are. However, the solution to the historical problem of geo-strategic instability and proneness to violence throughout human history, as Michael himself has excellently enumerated, lies elsewhere. That solution is for

1) ALL countries to awaken to the current and civilization long monetary paradigm concept that all new money must ONLY AND MONOPOLISTICALLY be created and distributed as debt thus, the concept of DEBT ONLY

2) and then also awaken to the new monetary paradigm of Strategic Monetary Gifting with

3) the primary policy of a 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale and also

4) a full policy program that stabilizes the new paradigm and enables many other individual benefits and socio-economic, ecological, energy and political problem resolutions.