I have a hunch about something I call ‘the art of the missile,’ and it makes me question if tariffs alone are a durable solution to our debt. It’s a feeling that we are underestimating how fragile our entire economic system is in the face of modern warfare tactics.
My concern is that the strength of tariffs depends entirely on a functioning economy with intact infrastructure like ports, power grids, and manufacturing hubs. What happens to the power of those tariffs when the Axis of Evil decides to use a few well placed Zircon cruise missiles or a swarm of advanced drones? They have these weapons stockpiled and ready to mobilize. If Putin or another adversary starts shooting, not necessarily at people, but at our critical economic infrastructure, the entire tariff structure could collapse overnight. Your solution to the debt would be gone in an instant.
Beyond that direct military threat, you cannot deny there seems to be a significant media cover up suggesting things are not what they seem on the world stage. How do we explain the reports where Ukrainians and their helpers conveniently evacuate a key area right before it gets hit, or when the Russians do the same thing before a major strike on one of their important targets? It points to a level of coordination or information control hidden from the public. It all feels managed, especially when you see players like JP Morgan lining up with Biden to talk about rebuilding everything afterward. It suggests the conflict itself is just a phase in a larger economic plan for the global elite.
This is why when people bring up other solutions, like AI and technological dominance saving us, that argument feels way too pie in the sky for me. So much of that future hinges on one single company in one of the most volatile places on earth, TSMC in Taiwan. That one company is both the crown jewel of the modern world and its most glaring Achilles’ heel. Any project or economic model that relies so heavily on that single point of failure is not a serious plan, it is a fantasy.