By Prince Kapone Weaponized Information (WI)
April 9, 2025
This report is not an obituary but a warning shot. The latest tremors in the U.S. economy—shaken by Trump’s spectacular tariff war and the ensuing bond market rout—are not isolated disruptions. They are signs of a collapsing imperial architecture. And as the scaffolding of U.S. supremacy rattles, the question is not whether the empire is falling—but how many it will take down with it.
Wall Street’s Canary Just Choked
On April 9, 2025, global investors did something unthinkable not long ago: they panicked over U.S. government debt. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note jumped to 4.516%, while the 30-year briefly tipped over 5%—the financial equivalent of a smoke alarm blaring in the engine room of the global economy.
The trigger? A 104% blanket tariff on Chinese imports, signed into effect by Donald Trump, presumably as part of his technofascist campaign to “restore American greatness” by burning down the house. But as any arsonist knows, fire spreads.
U.S. Treasury bonds—long treated as the safe haven of global capital—are now being dumped like toxic waste. This is not just a financial reaction. It’s a geopolitical vote of no confidence. A loss of faith in the American Empire’s ability to manage its contradictions. It turns out you can’t run an empire like a casino forever. Eventually the house loses.
From Tariffs to Technofascism: A Political Economy of Collapse
Let’s be clear. Trump’s tariffs are not economic policy—they are spectacle politics. They are designed not to repair the U.S. economy but to reassure a disoriented settler middle class that someone is still in charge. Like a magician yanking a tablecloth and hoping no one notices the table is already broken.
This is not a return to protectionism. It’s the consolidation of technofascism: a system where state power, digital surveillance, and monopoly capital fuse to manage imperial decline through repression and manipulation. Tariffs, in this context, are not protective—they are punitive. And the punishment is directed not at China, but at you.
The petty shop owner paying twice as much for imported parts. The retiree watching their bond-tied savings evaporate. The worker priced out of groceries. Welcome to the new American century.
The Ghost of Keynes Weeps
This is no longer an economy in crisis. It is a crisis posing as an economy. The dollar, long held together by debt-fueled supremacy and military muscle, is faltering. The speculative tech-finance complex—the so-called “innovation economy”—has revealed itself to be a deeply casinoized racket. Real production has long since fled. All that’s left is debt, branding, and surveillance.
And now, as the bond market convulses and global capital begins looking elsewhere, we find ourselves staring into the face of stagflation. High prices. Slowing growth. Rising interest rates. Political paralysis. Sound familiar? It should. This is what terminal decline looks like in the imperial core.
Europe, China, the South: Watching and Preparing
Meanwhile, the world watches. China’s SSE Index rose modestly—buoyed by state interventions. The EU has announced retaliatory tariffs. The Global South is quietly accelerating trade de-dollarization and regional economic agreements.
What we’re witnessing is the unraveling of the post-WWII order. The United States, once the self-proclaimed guardian of free markets, is now torching the rules it wrote. Allies are hedging. Rivals are organizing. And the BRICS bloc is beginning to look less like a symbolic gesture and more like a material alternative.
A Word to the Base: The Empire Is Not Your Friend
To those still clinging to the idea that Trump is leading a righteous revolt against the global elite: you’ve been conned. This is not populism. This is the ruling class tightening its grip by feeding you the spectacle of resistance.
You’re not at war with China. You’re at war with the system that offshored your job, foreclosed your home, surveilled your protests, and now wants you to believe that tariffs and walls will bring it all back.
They won’t.
This isn’t about national sovereignty. It’s about imperial triage. Trump’s economic nationalism is not a deviation—it’s the emergency procedure of a dying empire. And it’s turning its most loyal subjects into casualties.
The Path Forward Isn’t Red, White, and Blue
We are not witnessing the end of American power, but its mutation. The U.S. state is transforming into a fortress—not to protect its people, but to discipline them. To shield capital, not labor. To preserve global hegemony through militarism, misinformation, and economic siege.
But there is another path. It does not lie in electoral saviors or tariffs wrapped in flags. It lies in organizing. In defection from the logic of empire. In building movements that reject technofascism, reject monopoly finance, and reject the false promises of nationalist revival.
This is the moment. The mask is off. The empire is cannibalizing itself. And it’s offering you up as the main course.
You can go down with it.
Or you can join the struggle to build something beyond it.
Let the dead bury the dead.
The living have a world to win.
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