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Wouter's avatar

As much as I think Trump is needed for the USA, on a cultural. governmental and military level (if he like in his first term doesn’t start new wars), I think it’s impossible at this point to stop the American decline. He can slow it, but the crash is inevitable and needed too. I hope hat Europe decouples from the USA as soon as we can.

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charles leone's avatar

Targeting China is ‘Dumb and Dumbest’. China represents the last engine in the world for the Hamiltonian ‘Productive Powers of Labor' epitomized by their Space Program projects.

China stands tall in the face of ‘little rocket man’ Trump's taunts and spites about tariffs which will be the equalivent of sanctions against American consumers through higher prices for consumer goods.

More about this later. 😊

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Mullet Snyder, the Lying Poet's avatar

China imports food and fuel from the USA. If, as this author suggests, the USA imposes tariffs then the USA will face inflationary pressures.

But, if China stops importing food and fuel, the Chinese people will starve and freeze.

Since the American Revolution of 1776, America has never had a famine. China has had 17 famines. China is prone to famines. But, I would argue, China needs the USA more than the USA needs China.

But, neither country wants the scenario of massive Trump tariffs.

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Xiaoguang Yin's avatar

According to the latest news, the United States imposed a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada, and a 10% tariff on China, which once again confirms that the United States will not impose such high tariffs on China.

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Ttbub's avatar

Even Camilla Harris' couldn't save that place. The world has stopped going forward because of stuck companies.

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Andrew Laverdiere's avatar

While certain aspects are correct, it pays to remember how Trump handled foreign policy during his first administration (at least that that wasn't sabtotaged by disgusting traitors like Bolton and Pompeo) by bombastic verbiage, and then serious negotiations. Or his surprise diplomatic coup during his visit to North Korea. Since Trump is referencing President William McKinley who was famous at the time for his vast knowledge of tariff legislation (read his book) he's correct in saying that tariffs are necessary in order to bring manufacturing back, but he's ignoring the vast problem of 60 years of post-industrial destruction of the physical manufacturing capability of the country by the globalists in Wall Street and the mental destruction of the adult age workforce required to have a manufacturing base again, the destruction of the electricity system by deregulation, along with the federal credit policies that went along with it. The area of machine tools (the bottleneck of all economies) alone is frightening both in the lack of it and the advanced age of the remaining machinists It takes 10 years to create a master machinist. Trump litterally has very few cards to play in this game.

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