These include trying to boost domestic demand with higher wages and lower taxes for the less well-off, to bully the Bundesbank into cutting interest rates, and to set target zones to stabilise currencies.
That being said, criticisms of somebody finally taking off the gloves and smacking the neighborhood bully in the mouth ring hollow if and when the people making such criticisms focus only on the longtime victim while giving the serial bully a free pass.
As in the old Charles Atlas ads, the 97-pound weakling eventually gets tired of having sand kicked in his face, heads off to the gym and becomes just as muscled as the bully.