This RU inside view is of course meaningless. What are you expecting them to say: „we’re exhausted, please give us a fair peace”?!? They will hide their weaknesses (economy crumbling due to the war effort) and showcase their strength (putting more and more soldiers to die on the battlefield).

Ah so much still to learn about good governance. Thankfully the world is there to share advice and good practices.

It’s super when our belief in the exceptional nature of our time is challenged by an academic work from many decades prior.

If this is the only polling information that Trump is exposed to, then that explains a lot.

I recommend to look back to this 2019 piece by Anthea Roberts

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

And Iran and Venezuela are of course well known economic powerhouses and good examples to follow.

What an incredibly misleading byline?!? Now why would politico want to put out something like that?

Uh huh: but the whole VAT thing does not add up. UK with a20% VAT is considered as having a 10% tariff levy. So VAT does not seem to be included. Of course trying to rationalise and dissect populist policies is a dead end.

But why would anyone actually want to invest in the US - supply chain stability impossible. Super costly to integrate operations.

I’m wondering at what point will these announcements actually stop mattering in that the US economy will have tanked to such a degree that no one will really be contemplating buying new cars? I guess we’ll find out soon enough.