With the 90-day tariff truce gasping its final breaths, the Manipulator-in-Chief—still busy exporting his signature brand of Trumperialism™—has now declared that any country daring to flirt with the “anti-American policies of #BRICS” will get slapped with a bonus 10% tariff. Because nothing says free trade like punishing sovereign nations for not playing cheerleader to Washington's economic agenda.

For anyone still clinging to the illusion that the Thailand-Cambodia border dispute—now a full-blown war—is just a local skirmish, this should be all the proof needed: it’s yet another proxy war, targeting another #BRICS-aligned nations daring to resist the Malthusian western agenda of managed decline and population control.

As these countries embrace mercantilism and self-reliance, it becomes increasingly clear who's pulling the strings—and why another conflict was conveniently ignited in #ASEAN.