Very good observation. A lot of shaping the battlefield before committing to battle.
“A lot of shaping the battlefield before committing to battle.”
absolutely. and trump did the same thing when he super-charged our economy BEFORE instituting tariffs to bring our greedy trading “partners” to heel; that is, he made sure our economy was so powerful and resilient that it could easily shrug off any minor perturbations from temporary tariffs before our “partners” caved ... which is why all of the doom and gloom predicted by the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia was complete hogwash that of course never came true ...