> Stephen Miran, nominated to advise Trump, has suggested high tariffs could be the price allies pay for U.S.’s defense umbrella So the takeaway is that Stephe

> Stephen Miran, nominated to advise Trump, has suggested high tariffs could be the price allies pay for U.S.’s defense umbrella So the takeaway is that Stephen Miran is a brown-noser busy repeating his boss' delusional/evil nonsense. > “Retaliatory tariffs by other nations can nullify the welfare benefits of tariffs for the U.S.,” Miran acknowledged. > To deter retaliation, he wrote that the Trump administration could “declare that it views joint defense obligations and the American defense umbrella as less binding or reliable for nations which implement retaliatory tariffs.” Ah, so the US could come out ahead imposing tariffs... if everybody else sits back and just takes the hit without hitting back, and we could make that happen if we present our nation as not merely greedy but maliciously untrustworthy. We just extort them with the threat that we might violate treaties if we aren't in a good mood, and hope that it'll work forever.