Source: Antiwar.com
by Daniel Larison
“The incoming Trump administration seems determined to wage as many economic wars as it can. The president-elect reportedly plans to pursue another ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Iran with the goal of ‘bankrupting’ the country. Now he is threatening new trade wars with Mexico, Canada, and China at the beginning of his second term. Trump has favored using broad sanctions and tariffs as weapons to try to force other states to give in to US demands, and coercion seems to be the only approach that he understands. As one Trump foreign policy adviser said to The Wall Street Journal, ‘His whole worldview is maximum pressure, it’s that simple.’ Economic wars can be just as devastating as armed conflicts in some respects, and sometimes they can be worse.” (12/02/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/daniel_larison/2024/12/01/trumps-senseless-economic-wars/