For those few who take the Idiot King’s public pronouncements seriously, the trade wars are about economic nationalism. For most people that means protecting US industrial products. But as this article points out, the trade wars have nothing to do with producing goods, It is a desperate attempt by US capitalists to make those countries that are pulling away from the dollar – Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela – pay for it.
By F. William Engdahl in Global Research
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