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Dollar inflation is global taxation. If the ~$6T printed since 2020 was spread across just 330M Americans rather than 8B+ globally, you'd go from printing <$1k/head to almost $20k/head. And purchasing power would drop accordingly. https://t.co/0lw4tyGvf0 This is MAGA's fundamental error. They correctly observe that (say) Maui got $700 checks while Ukraine got $100B+, but then incorrectly conclude that all Americans are therefore being ripped off by the world. In reality, American Empire implements global taxation via dollar inflation. So the smarter route would be for MAGA to fix the empire piece-by-piece, by supporting conservatives and libertarians in Europe, by deregulating domestically, by making the minimum necessary enemies, and by redirecting that flow of printed money — rather than breaking up the whole empire in a negative-sum cloud of dust via tariffs and trade war. That just hands off the world to China, which is poised to pick up the pieces. After all, the American Empire is the greatest empire in human history, with 750 military bases across the globe, larger than even the British Empire at its peak. Shutting it down precipitously over the illusion that America is simply a "country" like any other will cause tremendous short- and medium-run damage to those in the seat of empire.