Craig Duncan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thejapantimes</span></a></span> </p><p>The "trade" qualification will lose meaning as <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> loses patience. </p><p>In the current time, <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a> need to understand the real motives, the possible futures, when a person seems to be destroying their own country's (<a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a>) best parts. </p><p>The "better futures" promised by people indifferent to suffering, the ones they look forward to, are the ones where they get to say: now its even clearer I am in control. That's what <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> means, and if that's the goal, then <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> are just a means to an end for them, not a better world for the people.</p>