Yanis Varoufakis

in the United States and of the centrists in Europe is they have dismissed Trump as a buffoon who has absolutely no strategic vision.

You know, he's haphazard.

He moves from one disaster to another.

He's a fool who somehow has managed to defeat them so handsomely.

I don't take that view.

I consider him to be a political adversary, a political, if you want, even aesthetically speaking, enemy of mine.

But I take very seriously his strategic plan.

And you know what?

He's put it on paper, not so much himself.

But, you know, before his inauguration, second inauguration, I studied very, very carefully the texts that have come out of his team.

Like, you know, things that Scott Besant had said and written.

You know, the Mar-a-Lago, famous Mar-a-Lago paper.

It's clear what the strategy is.

Trump looks at the last 60 years

And what he sees is a period that some people refer to it as the period of globalization.

Others refer to it as the neoliberal period or the globalist period.

It's a period that started in 1971 with Richard Nixon.

When Richard Nixon and his team, not himself personally, blew up the Bretton Woods system.

So why did that happen?

It happened because the United States ceased to be a surplus country.