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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pullman Brown" data-source="post: 6096127" data-attributes="member: 73012">It would be easy to dismiss yesterday’s announcement as dry, economic arcana — tariffs, trade deficits, bilateral agreements, country-by-country charts, and economic reports. But don’t be fooled by all the paperwork. What Trump did wasn’t just a historic across-the-board trade action.It was a once-in-a-century power shift.To understand how truly historic it was, look back to Bretton Woods, 1944 — the postwar deal where America agreed to carry the world’s economic burdens in exchange for geopolitical dominance.After the devastation of WWII, the United States promised to help rebuild Europe and Japan, by opening our previously protected markets to foreign goods, keeping our tariffs low to nonexistent, providing the world’s reserve currency, and underwriting global security with American military power.In return, other countries were supposed to gradually liberalize their economies, buy American goods, and play by the rules. But they never did.Instead, they took our postwar deal —designed to help them— and ran with it. They piled up tariffs, non-tariff barriers, VAT taxes, and trade cheats while the U.S. kept its markets wide open.For decades, the American working class footed the bill while foreign economies fattened themselves, and American elites made billions facilitating and perpetuating the grift. That was globalism. It’s not an ideology— it is a business model. And Trump just crushed the model.He didn’t just slap tariffs on a few industries, as has always been done before. Instead, he: Imposed the first across-the-board tariff on all imports in modern U.S. history (with certain exceptions).Reversed the postwar deal by demanding reciprocity rather than charity.Linked trade to national security, manufacturing independence, and economic sovereignty.Gave himself a live, adjustable tariff dashboard to pressure every foreign government, one-on-one.In short, Trump didn’t “adjust policy” — he dismantled Bretton Woods.For the first time since 1945, the United States is no longer offering up its consumer market as a global welfare program. Trump’s not playing the age-old game of whack-a-mole, with its endless unproductive diplomacy, swanky secret summits in Alpine resorts, and backroom G7 handshakes.No, he’s negotiating right out in the open. Holding a sledgehammer of tariffs, leverage, and a crystal clear message: Open your markets to us, or pay dearly for access to ours.That is why foreign governments, corporate media, and the parasite class are howling. The postwar free ride is over. The host finally vomited up the parasite. And the Bretton Woods era is finally finished.Jeff Childers</blockquote>

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