Trump II's Regulatory Pot Boils for Some, Cool Drink for Others

It's getting harder to know a number of things as the globe fractures into continental alliances.  The U.S. is backtracking on corporate ownership disclosures as it facilitates corporate hacking of global entities.  Trump II refers to such hackers as "cyber privateers" and they are to fight:

"any foreign group that conducts cyber-enabled crime against the United States Government, a United States person, or United States interests, and that is not an institutional part of a foreign government or wholly operated under a foreign government’s direction"

Additionally, the Pentagon plans to crack down on the transfer of technology and intellectual property theft.   Once again, this is not a domestic taking of intellectual property without permission, a foundational practice for most AI models.

The former Defense Department is focusing on foreign appropriators of U.S. technology/intellectual property.  Elected officials have long used the military as our global police force.  For the last few decades it took only the President to start or enter an international conflict.

Private equity underwriters' (PEU) political influence soared over that period as they flipped affiliates doing big business with Uncle Sam, hired former public servants in non-lobbying, lobbying roles and preserved their highly unpopular preferred "carried interest" taxation.

TechGods noted and copied the PEU playbook, albeit a bit more brashly.  

The Pentagon identified "suspect entities" in China, Russia and Iran and published a list.  

Pete Hegseth must have used a Ginshu knife when it came to Tsinghua University in Beijing.  Their Master of Global Affairs is OK while their Center for International Security and Strategy is verboten.

Might Blackstone co-founder Stephen Schwarzman have influenced Trump II's thinking?  Schwarzman is the Founding Trustee of Tsinghua University's Schwarzman Scholars.

Trump II disdains knowledge, thus his propensity to attack universities.  He disdains responsibility, accountability and consistency as they interfere with his ability to launch his signature "savage whims."

Trump II does things in each and every present moment that maximize his image and reflect his greatness.  He wants to protect his crony friends and loyal members of the Red Team.  This creates a Swiss Cheese framework to those paying attention.  It's cheese in this instance and a hole in another.

If he can break their minds then Trump II has them.  

To sum up:

Global affairs, supporter/friend/neighbor/PEU - OK  

International Security and Strategy, lacking political Red Team heavyweight - Not OK

And that's why so many tune him out.  This simply adds to the danger as politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one in a marriage of dark forces.