The Empire Strikes Itself:
Liberation Day or Desperation Day?
Trump just lit the fuse. “Liberation Day”, a universal tariff regime on all U.S. imports, isn’t much of a trade strategy. It’s a euphemism for controlled economic demolition. A last ditch rear guard action, made in panic by the Empire.
But it does have the unintended consequence of being a funeral pyre for neoliberalism, the final act of a rentier empire that offshored its manufacturing, hollowed out its working class, and sold its soul to Wall Street derivatives and Silicon Valley surveillance.
The U.S. can no longer outcompete. So it’s trying to out-tariff.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t about protecting domestic industry. America's industrial base was dismantled decades ago. There are no foundries, no machine-tool factories, no national industrial plan. This is like slapping a steel dome on a house that already burned down.
So why do it?
Because the elites are panicking.
Because the dollar is losing its supremacy,brick by BRICS.
Becausereal assets: energy, minerals, manufacturing—are migrating east. And because the Global South is no longer playing by the script.
Trump didn’t declare a trade war. He justdeclared war on globalization’s corpse. What Trump has done is expose the rot. Wall Street hates it. Silicon Valley hates it. Davos hates it.
And that’s the point or at least the unintended beauty of it. The chaotic circus ringmaster is bringing down the house, quite litterally.
The empire is no longer hiding its decline. So it may as well weaponizing it. From its point of view of course.
Universal tariffs won’t rebuild America, they’ll raise prices, slash margins, and speed up de-dollarization as the rest of the world builds supply chains that bypass U.S. control altogether.
And for all the panic on CNBC and in the Moody’s press releases, you know what? Good. Let them panic.
Let the algorithmic traders, overleveraged hedge funds, and globalist NGOs feel a fraction of the instability they exported to the Global South for 40 years.
Liberation Day isn't really about America. It’s about the system revealing its terminal fragility.
Trump, whether by instinct or ignorance, just set fire to the neoliberal scaffolding. Now comes the smoke, the price shocks, the screams from Wall Street, and underneath it all, the slow, painful rebirth of sovereignty for the Global Majority, so long as the world has the courage to grab it.
Not neat. Not elegant. But necessary.
it's an easy equation for me. You either build industrial capitalism or you decay into financial parasitism. And when the parasites start eating themselves, you know the system’s done.
So buckle up!
Liberation Day isn’t the beginning of greatness. It’s the beginning of the end of the empire’s economic illusion.
🔥 And we say, light the match.
- Gerry Nolan
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