Donald Trump holds the world to ransom with his tariff threats that he is using to browbeat nations to further his political and economic agenda. However, in the long run it would be a self goal as his core votaries may cheer now but they would be the worst sufferers

Evidently, Donald Trump, as President of the USA, is performing a rather comical dance of tariff for the benefit of his American audience. In the very initial days of his second presidency, he did display flashes of social memory from the days of his German origin. Some history is instructive here.

Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany had taken over Czechoslovakia by calling its prime minister Emile Hacha to his chancellery in Berlin, and by threatening him and his country’s security, drove him to collapse. The old man, to save his country from destruction, surrendered to Germany. But no sooner than the stricken prime minister returned to Prague, he jumped out of the fourth floor to end his life. The shame of surrendering to the Nazis had been too much to bear.

Austria too was taken over without pulling a trigger. Its chancellor was most unhappy, but the majority of the people were rather pleased at this union called Anschluss. One also cannot forget the forcible incorporation of Sudetenland, the western part of Czechoslovakia. This happened with the blessings of the British and French........

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