Nigeria, April 7 -- And so, President Donald Trump finally announced the "reciprocal tariffs" designed to lead to the liberation of the United States of America. Liberation? Yes. The way the 47th president of America understands it, the US has been "looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far" maybe since the Second World War ended or even way before that - perhaps since the repeal of the Smoot-Hawley tariffs in the 1930s. To cast this perception of America's putative existential challenge as would the head of an African Marxist revolutionary movement in the early sixties does, however, stretch the argument for credulity. America's "turn to prosper" is arguably the most presumptive phrase this century.

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