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Wrought

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Incoherence, thy name is Trump.

Now, more than a year into his second term, Trump's aggressive trade moves have not fundamentally altered Beijing's trade or military actions. Instead, Washington's China policy appears adrift, causing confusion among officials and driving contradictory decisions.

"You have departments and agencies acting on their own accord, often with different objectives, and even at times in countervailing ways," said Ely Ratner, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs. "On any given day, it feels like the policy can zigzag in either direction," Ratner said.

"Their entire original strategy was centered around using tariffs to pressure China into major concessions. That effort quickly ran aground," said Scott Kennedy, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank. "There has been no coherent Plan B."
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An Ecuadorian fisherman named Jhonny Sebastian Palacios survived a US attack from March 26th, and gave a interview about the whole ordeal. He and his fellow fishermen were attacked by a US drone, then boarded by US military personal who looted their food and beer and blackbagged them to El Salvador.

The kicker is this direct quote:
"They knew we were fisherman. Even the Salvadorian authorities told us things had been handled very badly."
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Guardian also says at the end that Palacios was the only one willing to talk, because the others feared reprisal by officials.

For me personally the standout is US troops stole their food and beer. For those who missed it, The Independent had an article documenting US sailors fighting Iran where so underprepared, they're starting to run out of food and other basic provisions. Which begs a few questions:
  • Why would US sailors steal food that they can't verify the safety of?
  • Why would they even consider taking anything if the US is claiming the boats are smuggling Fentynal? Doubly so when the narrative is Fentynal will kill you on contact (it won't).
  • Why would they care about provisions at all if they didn't give the kidnapped men food and blew up their boats and equipment later?
The US Navy 4th Fleet's deployment was just as haphazard, and has been ongoing since August 2025. Pete Hegseth has also been leading a purge of the Pentagon, with a notable case being Joint Chief's Chairman (USAF) General Charles Q. "CQ" Brown who was a respected expert in military logitics.
I'm willing to bet the 4th Fleet is going to through a slow motion version of provision shortages. Troops can be stupid, but there's no reason for them to specifically steal food and beer off a random boat that they believe to be smuggling highly lethal narcotics.
 
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