Tariffs are just another step toward Absolute Zero and Great Reset. An increase in prices will reduce consumption and that was always the plan.
Covid proved that all governing entities move in lockstep and there is no separation. There is no tariff war. Only further reduction in your purchasing power.
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Americans think mostly in terms of kinetic warfare; however, there are other means of warfare: economic, cultural and informational. I personally think economic warfare is the most effective - it's though 'free trade' that China was turned from rice patties to a global superpower and NOW the US has to confront with kinetic warfare (simply because the US does not think in terms of economic warfare).
The avoidance of tariffs, and 'free trade' has gutted the united states of it's manufacturing base and thus reduced it to a service economy with tremendous economic disparity between the haves/haves not. Zoomers dont understand this because they live in a post-manufacturing US. They've never lived in a USA where you could get a family sustaining job manufacturing something.
Of all the knives that went into the back of America (unrestricted immigration, poisoning of the food supply, dumbing down of education) - I really believe that 'free trade' and lack of tariffs was probably the most significant knife in America's downfall.
Canadians aren't too happy about it either, ironically.
While we're able to sell natural resources abroad more easily, we also get our markets totally flooded with foreign goods to the point where we can't manufacture anything locally.
There are also a bunch of legalities that mess us up. Maybe 20 years ago, Ontario was going to pay for a program installing solar on personal properties and farms by manufacturing the panels locally and taxing them. They got sued by Japan because, under Free Trade, they aren't allowed to in any way favour locally made goods.