There are two engineering approaches to decoupling: easing off the system gradually (leaves danger from unpredictable geopolitical disruption during vulnerable transition period) or wrecking the system radically and rebuilding to desired endpoint (creates immediate market chaos but eliminates extended vulnerability period).

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George Friedman

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we have the imperative to reduce our exposure. How do we manage it? And there are two engineering ways. Uh a way to ease off the system. But that leaves the danger of time. What will happen to disrupt this? or to an extreme do what Trump did, wreck the system and then rebuild it

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George Friedman on How Geopolitics Drives Trump's TariffsGeopolitical Futures
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:48:46 AM

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