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Let’s not pretend this is just about trade.

The Trump administration announced sweeping new tariffs across the world. China, Canada, Mexico—even Norfolk Island is now on the list. Officially, it’s about protecting American workers and restoring “fairness.”

But here’s the question we all need to be asking:
What’s actually going on?

So let’s do something radical.
Let’s ask an AI what Trump’s real plan is.

Not the soundbites.
Not the spin.
But the strategy beneath the strategy.

And what it reveals isn’t just a trade war—it’s something far more calculated. Something designed by a machine that doesn’t sleep, doesn’t feel, and doesn’t care about who gets crushed—only that it wins.

What the AI Sees That We Don’t

When we feed the facts into a high-level geopolitical AI—tracking trade flows, power shifts, and political intent—it doesn’t talk about jobs.

It talks about leverage.

And it gives us a chilling breakdown of what these tariffs are actually designed to do:

1. Collapse the Old Global Order—Then Rebuild It Around the U.S.

Trump’s AI isn’t trying to fix the global economy.
It’s trying to replace it.

By disrupting supply chains, spooking markets, and destabilizing alliances, it forces countries and corporations to re-route their dependencies. To come home. Or at least, come closer.

It’s not “America First.”
It’s America as the Axis.

2. Weaponize Uncertainty

The AI knows this: stability favors cooperation.
But chaos makes people easier to control.

When nobody knows what the next tariff will hit—Canada? Mexico? A random island?—partners become cautious, fractured, reactive.

And in that confusion, America gains negotiating power.

Unpredictability becomes a tactic. Fear becomes currency.

3. Turn Economic Pain into Political Power

Here’s the genius—and danger—of the play:

The tariffs may raise prices, cause shortages, even hurt businesses. But to the AI, that’s useful. It creates discontent, which can be redirected.

“Things are tough,” the narrative goes, “because other countries cheated us. We’re just fighting back.”

It’s the classic problem → blame → loyalty loop.
Pain becomes loyalty.
And loyalty becomes power.

4. Make the U.S. the Global Operating System

This is where it gets futuristic.

The AI’s long game isn’t just about trade—it’s about infrastructure control.

Tariffs push foreign tech companies, manufacturers, and data firms to move inside U.S. borders to avoid penalties. Once inside? The U.S. controls the rules.

This isn’t just protectionism.
It’s data colonialism.
It’s economic gravity.
And it’s how you make yourself unignorable.

Why Even Heard Island and McDonald Islands Matter

You might laugh at the idea of targeting some tiny islands. But the AI doesn’t laugh.

It targets Heard Island and McDonald Islands,  to send a message:
No one is too small. No one is safe.

It’s not about economics.
It’s about psychological dominance.

If even such small islands gets hit, what’s to stop the AI from targeting your country, your sector, your company next?

So What’s the Endgame?

Let’s be clear: this isn’t about 2025.

The AI is playing a 20-year game, maybe longer.

Its goal? To make the U.S. so central, so critical, that the rest of the world has no choice but to plug in—to US markets, US tech, US terms.

It’s not about isolation.
It’s about designing a future where the U.S. is the hub of everything—from supply chains to silicon to sovereignty itself.

Here’s the Part That Matters Most

The AI machine doesn’t care about working families.
It doesn’t care about climate, democracy, or diplomacy.
It only cares about winning.

And if we let it run unchecked—if we keep treating tariffs like a headline instead of a warning—then we’re not in a trade war.

We’re in an era shift.
Where human values are traded for machine logic.
And where short-term pain is used to lock in long-term dominance.

So What Do We Do?

We pay attention, we come together!
We talk about what’s really happening—not just what’s trending.
And we remind ourselves: the future isn’t something we inherit.
It’s something we shape.

Even when the US machine thinks it has already won

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There’s a quiet fear no one wants to admit out loud.

It shows up in side-eyes during team meetings, in late-night doomscrolling, in that subtle question echoing through our generation’s collective anxiety:


What’s the point?
If artificial intelligence is going to write the next great novel, design the next viral campaign, launch the next billion-dollar business — faster, cheaper, and more efficiently than you or I ever could — then why try? Why put in the hours, the sweat, the effort?

Why bother getting better?

It’s a question that haunts not just creatives or coders or marketers. It’s haunting humanity. The unsettling idea that maybe we’ve reached the edge of usefulness. That the race we’ve been running — to be better, smarter, more skilled — is about to be won by a machine that doesn’t sleep, doesn’t feel, doesn’t forget.

But here’s what we forget in return:

We don’t grow because the world demands it.
We grow because something inside us refuses to stop.

AI might automate what we do. But it cannot automate why we do it.

The Fallacy of Replacement

Let’s be real. Yes, AI will disrupt industries. It already is. Whole workflows reduced to prompts. Creative outputs generated in seconds. Copy, code, concept — replicated, iterated, shipped. And it’s only just beginning.

But here’s a truth too many are missing:

Being better was never just about productivity.

You didn’t start painting to beat an algorithm. You didn’t learn to lead because you thought a robot couldn’t. You didn’t choose empathy, or poetry, or patience because it would get you ahead.

You chose those things because they made you more human.

Better was never the enemy of automation. Better was the quiet rebellion against stagnation. It’s what built pyramids, painted ceilings, fought injustice, and sent ships across oceans.

And now — we’re being called to define “better” again.

What AI Can’t Touch

Let’s get philosophical for a second.

AI can simulate kindness.
It can write poetry about grief.
It can mimic your voice, your humor, even your childhood trauma.

But it doesn’t know what any of it means.

It’s never held a dying parent’s hand.
It’s never wept at the sound of a song you haven’t heard since you were twelve.
It doesn’t get nervous before an interview.
It doesn’t get butterflies before a kiss.

It doesn’t hope.
It doesn’t dream.
It doesn’t choose.

And therein lies the point. You do.

The Point of Getting Better

The point isn’t to compete with the machine.
It’s to remember what the machine can never be.

Better isn’t about being faster. It’s about being braver.
It’s about choosing excellence in a world that rewards convenience.
It’s about creating not because we must — but because we can.

When we choose to become better — as professionals, as friends, as partners, as humans — we are declaring, in defiance and in hope:

“I still matter. My effort still matters. My growth still matters.”

History will remember those who embraced the tools, yes.
But it will honor those who never lost their soul while using them.

One Last Thing

Progress will automate the world.
But only purpose will save it.

So write the damn poem.
Learn the new skill.
Start the business.
Show up, even when it’s hard.
Love people when it’s inconvenient.
Be better — not because the machine is watching…

…but because someone who needed your humanity is.

And that, my friend, will always be the point.

Animated short film by Simon Biggs

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