Re: @financialtimes.com is not mincing words

On Sat, 5 Apr 2025, Retrograde wrote:

On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 21:42:03 +0200
D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

This is why it won't last. If Trump doesn't realize it, his billionaire
friends, or the republican millionaire politicians will one way or another
force him to retract.
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He will then claim that what ever comes out of it, in terms of
concessions, was what he planned all along, and will then quickly forget
all about it. Then move on to the next target.
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I wonder how long it will take though? 1 month, 3 or 12? I bet it will be
over in 3-4 months or so.

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Honestly I think I am in agreement with D on this one. But just to play
devil's advocate: the war in Ukraine has not gone the way Putin had
intended, but he found himself unable to back out without losing face
or having to admit the mistake.  Trump quite admires Putin and might
find himself obliged to soldier forward through the consequences of a
stupid decision, claiming all the while he is right.

This is a good point! But I'd say that this is not comparable to Putins situation in ukraine. Putin knows that if he loses, he will die. That's how russian politics works. If he shows weakness, the sharks will smell blood.
Trump will not die if he backs down on the tariffs. He will just blame europe and/or china, and as long as he can get some kind of symbolic "revenge" he'll be fine. At worst, he'll just pretend it never happened, and that he won, and ban anyone who says otherwise.

Meanwhile, the price of coffee is going to go up fast, and I'm not
happy about it.

This is highly troubling! Note that this is, however, not the first time in history when coffee prices reached this level. This tends to happen cyclically, and if you check the price of coffee that past 70 years, you'll see occasional spikes like the one we have. I bet that coffee prices will be lower 2 years from now.