@Nick Kew
You're conflating stuff that happened with private companies (i.e. Nokia hiring a former Microsoft guy, then getting mostly bought out by Microsoft) and things that are only happening because of Trump (trade battles with Canada)
If you think there's a grand strategy behind all this, you must imagine quite a massive conspiracy - a conspiracy which includes Trump. The only conspiracies Trump is interested in are those that benefit him personally. He's a shitty president and I'd struggle to find anything good to say about him as a man, but I can't see him participating in the type of long term grand conspiracy you envision. There's nothing in it for him, and he switches positions at the drop of a hat so he could claim "he won" the trade war and drop all the tariffs tomorrow. And he will if he thinks it'll benefit him politically.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
