Tooze’s Imperialist-Cosplay VS. Stupid Imperialism

Adam Tooze put out a Chartbook today that suggested Trump’s imperialist war on Venezuela could be “imperialist cosplay”:

If I were to make a big noisy claim it would be that the entire exercise has less to do with actual resource imperialism than Trump’s feckless reality TV Cosplay resource imperialism. He likes demonstrative acts of violence. He likes t…