Because it's like spending lots of money paying for gas to drive your car, and you don't like that, so you take a steaming hot dump in your gas tank, you know, "as a change in perspective".
Surprise, you won't save anything on gas, and your car runs like shit now too.
Trump’s plan involves using tariffs to pressure foreign central banks to lower interest rates, thereby depreciating their currencies relative to the dollar. This would offset the price increases caused by tariffs on U.S. consumers.
Nothing about this string of connections makes any sense. Why would they lower interest rates, why would their currency depreciate?
Other countries are just going to form trade partnerships with each other and avoid the US. There will be a new strengthening global economy that skips the US entirely.
It's Brexit all over again, but instead of the UK suffering from leaving the EU, it's the US suffering from leaving the global economy. At some point the US will have to come crawling back just for deals worse than it had in the first place.
Varoufakis' reasoning is fully consistent with the Trump/Musk world of drug-induced delusion.
I'm gonna take a wild guess that the "experts" have air-conditioned homes and workplaces.
Make them live without AC for the entire next summer and let's see if their "expert" opinion changes.
So, how is everyone enjoying this new age of peace and prosperity that only The Chosen One could bring us.
Yes, so I suppose to phrase it better, the US is abandoning it's vassals, so its vassals are declaring independence. And vassals becoming independent and leaving the empire is the best outcome for anti-Imperialists.
Big win for everyone who is anti-US Imperialism. Europe is abandoning the US, standing behind Ukraine. US is losing all its power abroad.
"Negotiating a peace deal"
Ukraine was not involved in the peace deal, it was Russia and the US alone behind closed doors.
That's not a normal peace deal.
And now Israel is voting in the UN in favor of Russia.
The US, Israel, and Russia are similar countries with similar leaders, similar goals, similar methods. Unless we actually see one of the three experience an internal revolution, an alliance is inevitable.
I can't argue against anything you said there.
The advantage of a Harris administration is that the US would continue to be unfriendly to Russia, so pro-Russia leftists could continue to believe that Ukraine was just a vassal ruled by US deep state plants, and not have to face the world-shattering reality of a US-Russia alliance against Ukraine.
If Putin came in as a liberator, sure. Instead it became a convenient excuse for the subjugation of Ukrainian people, demoralizing them and terrorizing them with war crimes, so he can annex their land and strip them of natural resources.
The US was heavily involved in overthrowing that government.
Slight reference here to a prominent Russian theory that Ukraine is under US deep state government control. Which is this was true, the US wouldn't looking to switch sides to Russia. And Ukraine wouldn't be so set on continuing to defend itself even if the US switches.
That's why I'm saying, pro-Russia leftists are going to mentally crumble if the US switches over, because their entire world view (the one they like to call their "nuanced geopolitical view") has been ripped apart.
I do understand the argument, and it lays all accountability for Russia's invasion at the feet of the US, NATO, and Ukraine.
It's the equivalent of blaming Iraq for the US invasion, or blaming Hamas for Israel destroying Gaza. Make sense?
The "nuanced view of the geopolitics and history around the war in Ukraine" is usually a lot of mental gymnastics for the sole purpose of defending Russia.
lemmy.ml has a huge pro-Russia bias, for example, my recent comment accusing Russia of being a Nazi country was removed for being "bigoted", another recent comment accusing Israel of being a Nazi country using identical phrasing remained untouched.
You can't have it both ways, saying you don't support Russia while putting in lots of effort to support Russia.
He's definitely not part of any fascist organizations, the oligarch throwing Nazi salutes can vouch for him.