Trump’s Threats Escalate in Unreasonableness

Trump’s latest scheme is for each country to pay $1 billion to join his Gaza Board of Peace. The president of France declined the invitation, and Trump suggested that he might impose a 200% tariff on French wine in retribution.

It appears that the so-called Board of Peace does not have peace as its function. Instead, the purpose seems to be to raise billions of dollars to finance Trump’s plan of turning Gaza into an upscale resort. In place of Palestine there will be the Gaza Board of Peace Resort chaired by Donald Trump.

Trump says that Denmark is incapable of defending Greenland, and even if it were capable, “we have to have it.”

One wonders if it will occur to governments that the way to stop Trump’s encroachments is to sell their holdings of US Treasuries and cease holding their central bank reserves in the form of US Treasury debt. It is possible that Trump could find that there is a limit after all to American hegemony.

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