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67 sats \ 7 replies \ @justin_shocknet 2h \ on: America-First Economics | MAGA Economics | James Rickards | Hillsdale College econ
The institutions that shape world's largest economy have effectively unlimited resources to put people in think tanks, gather intelligence via the IC, run psyops, and coerce industry.
Everything happening is part of decades of planning. The enemy gets a vote of course, and optics are important, so there's obviously friction. That's exactly what "war gaming" is for.
It's insanely naive to assume things at this level aren't planned with unfathomable precision, letting people think they're incompetent and just winging it is the most successful psyop ever pulled.
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I suppose you're not a fan of Hanlon's Razor
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Actually, that's very consistent with what has played out.
Stupid, high time preference people, within a poor incentive structure imperiled national security over decades, in many cases under foreign influence. Traitors everywhere, America for sale.
Occam's razor on the simplest explanation:
The government is not a monolith, the national security state's immune system kicked-in to fight the disease.
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Morons don't get a seat at the table unless they're put there by the not-morons who control them
Can debate the where/whom on provenance of decision making/planning, but it's an entity a lot smarter than you.
Any bias to the contrary is just cope.