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Trump has hinted at the end game. Fund government with tariffs and end the income tax. I also believe he wants Canada and Mexico to do the same in that government would be funded by tariffs. If the free world would follow this thinking I believe there be a stronger middle class created. And it will be stronger. When they start arresting the criminal politicians and confiscate their wealth to put into his national wealth account then we can start to compare what happened in Saudi Arabia to what Trump is doing. It’s going to get interesting.

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Doug is taking Trump literally. That is a mistake.

Trump is a real estate salesman. This is a negotiating tactic.

Trump is trying to get all sides to "think past the sale".

There is an implicit assumption/message built into Trump's Gaza plan - things won't go back to the way they were and neither side is going to get control of Gaza.

By arguing what happens to Gaza after the war, both sides have implicitly accepted the premise that the war has to end (otherwise there's nothing to argue about).

Trump has shifted their frame of reference to what happens AFTER the war, instead of arguing about who killed who and whether or not its justified.

This clip will make it clear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-pk-aVvVNs

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