1/15/2025

Expansion of the evil American Empire. Americans are peace loving people?

Trump knows all his promises during his campaign is not going to work or even workable. Tariffs will cause inflation in the USA to spike for sure, even if it is going to discourage imports from China, Mexico among others, leading to USA consumers having to go for expensive substitutes made in the USA or EU. Not that the USA is now making anything worthwhile to speak of. Deportation of millions of immigrants is going to kill the agricultural sector, cripple the food and beverage sector and decimate the retail sector, all of which rely on cheap immigrant workers. If Trump fail to deliver on his promises, he is in trouble
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But Trump is a bullshitter, conman, multiple failure businessman, and he will probably be able to yet wriggle his way out. Did Mexico pay for the wall? Did he even managed to rain the swamp? How much did he win in the trade war so far? All duly forgotten by his voters in his first term, which Trump knew is what will happen this time around too.

That is why he is raising irrelevant issues to musk his imminent failure and incompetence, even before he takes office with all kinds of distractions. Just like his anti-China stance during his first term which led to an exodus of Chinese engineers, scientists and academics, which really pleased his support base but is creating big issues for the USA economy.

On a global basis, such a stance as trying to seize the Panama Canal, Mexico, Greenland and Canada will create much anxiety for those countries and others and is to distract them from the real issues inside the USA itself.

Trump is the kind of person with a narcissistic character that needs attention. And his threat of invasion of other sovereign countries is giving him all the attention that he loves.

How is Trump going to run his enlarged empire if it does happen, after seizing Greenland, Canada, Panama and Mexico, when right now he is unable to solve even basic domestic issues like homelessness, drug addiction, gun control issue and the debt issue. Mexico alone has an axe to grind with the USA, having lost much of its territory already to the USA in the past. Mexican Gringos are not as meek and cowardly as the USA thinks, and it is going back to the days of Mexican/Yankee rivalry if Trump's threat materialized.


Anonymous

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Trade wars are easy to win, but why is the USA's deficit hitting records after the trade war erupted since Trumps first term? When the USA cannot make the things that the people need, there is no alternative but to import them. And from who mostly? Still China of course.

So, going forward, are tariffs going to do the same thing over again? Unless the USA can begin to produce the same consumer goods as China, and as cheaply, all that the tariffs will do is forcing USA consumers to buy more expensive products from China with tariffs added or equally expensive alternatives from other sources like the EU. Does that solve the problem of erecting high tariffs against China? Sure, as an added tax it fattens the coffers of the USA Government but is punishing the voters. USA voters have bought into a scam that only Trump can sell to them. China still produces the same products at the same price for sale elsewhere.

The USA is trying to manufacture products in the USA itself, but will those products be cheaper or competitive enough to be sold outside the USA? If not, how are those factories going to survive just depending on a market of about 350 million? Chinese manufacturers of those products have a domestic market of 1.4 billion, with another 1.4 billion in Africa and several hundred million in South America, South-East Asia, Middle East and Central Asia and South Asia, even if India is excluded. USA manufacturers can sell to the Indian market of course, as they are buddy buddies. India is a market that the USA has been cultivating for decades, harping on its population growth, until recently when the reality struck.

Anonymous said...

The USA seems mighty proud of the homelessness in 'Skid Row', which many believe will expand with the wildfires in Los Angeles destroying homes. USA is going to be even greater under Trump. Joe Biden was right. China will never be able to catch up and overtake the USA. Keep repeating and it may come true.

Anonymous said...

Some Hollywood actors or actresses may join the Skid Row after losing their homes in the fire.