So are you like…16 or 60?

This is the way ^

Furious learning about the subject at hand is how I cope with my losses. Make that anger work for you instead of blowing things up.

So you’re saying there’s a future where a wizard will cast mend buttcrack, and thus nobody will ever stuff things up their bums ever again?

Trump is an abuser. (He has a long history spanning decades of fucking people over.) If you look at human nature on a small scale, in domestic violence situations usually the abuser will first isolate the person they are abusing from any allies that may help them or go to their aid. On a small scale, this would be things like siblings, parents, friends, and such of the person the abuser is abusing. On a larger scale, it means breaking longstanding international alliances.

Since Putin wants to break America, he’s giving Trump instructions to isolate America from its allies, just like an abuser will drive away any friends or aid from the person they are abusing, because when someone is isolated (whether an individual or country), they are easier to control and abuse.

Trump probably gets PERSONAL benefit of staying out of jail/not being thrown out a window by Russians by complying, so he does what he’s told. Musk is likely a Russian asset too (I suspect he got into deep financial trouble when he was forced by US regulators to buy Twitter, and that’s when Russia swooped in, but he might have been compromised earlier too.) Musk, not suffering from the dementia that Trump currently seems to be having, is Trump’s handler. That’s why he’s always around now to make sure Trump doesn’t forget to stick to the script.

So from a “what benefit to tariffs” is there perspective, what’s happening is that geopolitically the US is under intense attacks from enemies to the US that are purposefully attacking things that make America strong and killing them so that it is easier to shove the final knife in. It’s the same pattern that happens in domestic violence situations, just written much larger.

Others smarter than me have pointed out Putin probably wants the USA to have a breakdown like the fall of the USSR, and is directing things so that this happens.