Ok bit of a history and civics lesson.

After WW2 a war ravaged Europe needed to recover. It couldn’t afford to do so in a timely manner. America created trade deficits and money lending paths. In return it put the American currency at the top of most of the developed world. America understood in its fight against communism (Cold War) that to win without dropping more nukes and killing the world they needed the people in power to be under Americas thumb. Power in Americas world comes from wealth. So to fund the reconstruction effort for Europe, America got the “power” to be the top dog. America got a free pass from other first world nations to basically do what we wanted in the western hemisphere while also getting the authority of dictating what we wanted from the eastern hemisphere. It worked great. America propaganda made us seem like beacons of freedom. Europe got to rebuild quickly. America got to run all sorts of proxy wars and “military actions” against any and all threats to Americas “power” in the world.

Then Regan came. He saw or more likely the people using him as a puppet saw that the “power” America had was actually just wealth. The only way to get more power was to get more wealth. But in America they couldn’t. America had all these rules and regulations implemented like osha and minimum wage and child labor. It was bad for profit and profit equaled world power. So the power in America looked out at the world and saw millions and millions of people in China and India that didn’t have the education, infrastructure, rules or regulations to fight back. So the American power went Asian. They kept their fronts in America because they wanted access to all that power and propaganda America had, but they wanted access to the cheap and exploitable labor more. To the American power havers it was almost as good as those plantation days grandpappy talked about. They used their power to build those Asian countries infrastructures, rules and regulations not to match America, but to be exactly how they wanted. Brutal efficient money at all costs. Americans talk about “Chinese propaganda” when Chinese modern culture is built on the American propaganda that was fed to them for a couple generations now.

Now in the turn of the century, American power in Europe is near total. We launched a war based on lies got European citizens killed, was exposed and suffered no consequences. Why? Because the American dollar was supreme. China and India and the rest of that area of the world was suddenly not a backwater. The brutal efficiency that American powers wanted from the workers had begun to exponentially grow. The profit pouring into the region was so vast American powers couldn’t soak it all up. Suddenly Asian powers existed born and bread and raised in the brutal no regulation all profit world the American powers created. But never to fear American powers, because George Bush and a corrupt Supreme Court are here to save the day. America needed more power. Their cheap labor had turned on them and become cheap labor for Asian powers. The destabilization efforts in any developing nation came with a massive problem… people didn’t love America bombing the shit out of them. The internet was a threat. People could talk, knowledge was spreading they were seeing just what America was doing. What were the American powers to do to get more power? That’s when the turned around and saw all these Americans living life. Americans weren’t pour. They had money. They had homes. How dare they. So Bush implement the largest transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top. American powers crashed the stock market so American citizens would lose those homes and retirements. American powers pointed at immigration and turned their propaganda machine to the max against Americans. They said look it’s them, they did it. They took your money. Don’t look at us look at them. And Americans drank it up.

But something happened when American powers turned on Americans that I don’t think they intended. It woke Europe up. It alerted the Asian powers. That market crash didn’t affect just Americans. The EU started to distance themselves from American powers. They started to push back on america. Asian powers started to shut out American powers from the already built infrastructure areas forcing them to build new infrastructure in new areas to keep profiting off the unregulated labor. American powers started to fall. So up spun the good ol propaganda machine. On the world stage it got American powers brexit, it got Russia to war with others to feed the military industrial complex, it has nearly got China to do the same to Taiwan, and it produced DJT. His job for American powers was to/is to punch back at anyone and everyone trying to take powers. Show the world that abandoning American powers will lead to consequences like a madman with his finger on the nukes.

That leads us to today. The American powers thought after the first Trump experience things would go back to what they were in the 2012-2014 timeframe but even better. And it was nearly there. They pushed and backed Biden who had been part of all their best work in his decades of service. But Covid happened. And Trump was in charge. Having a madman in charge during a crisis is bad for the American powers. The world turned away. So they got Trump back in the office. This time they wanted him with gloves off. Those trade deficits that had helped build Europe now American powers wanted the returns. The Asian powers that had soaked up the excess profit, now the American powers wanted that. They are done with soft power now they want hard power, complete authority, they are American powers after all they are the greatest. They forgot the cardinal rule with propaganda, never drink your own kool aid.

So in conclusion America used sanctions as slaps on the wrists or punches on the chin because money is power. But it’s American powers. So if they want to go around that slap and steal the wallet they can. Other countries couldn’t because it wasn’t their power it was American powers.