Tariffs are a good concept, but the United States needs to be careful with how they use them. The Fed has gone from around 9.4 four trillion dollars on their balance sheet, and they've dumped about two trillion dollars worth of treasuries over the last 3 years. They've got to get those bonds out of their holdings because they're not they're not effective. However, there’s still around 7.4 trillion left on the balance sheet. That’s literally hurting the GDP.
Why are we at war in Ukraine. It's always the same answer throughout human history - It's money and power. Every single time. There's trillions of dollars of rare earth minerals and resources in the uh Eurasian landmass, and a lot of that is in Ukraine. Then there were explicit oil deals in Crimea and the Donbas, ten billion dollars each. Those two territories on the eastern part of Ukraine decide to have referendums and they go independent and one goes pro-Russian, then we've made promises to rich elite billionaires around the world. You would find it absurd to have a communist country in Mexico or in Cuba. And yet we're going right up against the motherland of Russia on the Ukrainian border and now we're shooting medium-range missiles into Russia.
