United States President Donald Trump’s tariff war against the rest of the world has sent stock markets into turmoil and prompted economists and governments to warn of impending global recession.

Trade wars can escalate into shooting wars. Trump’s naked gangsterism risks more military conflict, especially as he has raised tariffs on imports from China from 54% to 125%.

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The brutal genocidal war that the US-Israeli war machine is waging on the Palestinian people also serves to terrorise people all around the world into obeying the imperialist gangsters.

Since the Barack Obama administration, the US has been beefing up its military bases surrounding and targeting China, including those in Australia, and used military pacts such as AUKUS and the Quad alliance to push regional governments into a new arms race.

Trump’s “Liberation Day” escalation of its tariff war was justified to his supporters as an emergency response because the US had supposedly been “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike”.

This is a bizarre inversion of reality.

The US is the world’s most exploiting nation, has the world’s biggest military with the most foreign military bases and, historically, is the biggest contributor to global warming.

The world’s majority has nothing to gain from escalating tariffs and counter-tariffs.

Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs hit the Global South........

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