J. D. Vance already made the Vatican 'dark' with the death of the pope. Anything the USA touches is bound to be disastrous, and India is no exception. Two minus does not make a plus.
Trump's 24-hour settlement of the Ukraine War is going nowhere, with Zelensky wanting Crimea back, which Russia will never agree. That is another failure, even though Donald Duck is still saying agreement is close. He had been saying that even before getting elected. He does not know what he is talking about.
As I had been saying, Trump's gathering of clowns is breaking apart, with Musk now the first victim leaving his doggy activities that cost him a fortune. The damage has been done to Tesla, and it might be difficult to come back. Trump has done a big favor for Chinese EV makers, or should I say. 'Make China Greater Again'.
Trump is still touting his support for Pete Hegseth, but we know this is just posturing and is not going to last, with all the leaks happening. When the administration picks are all about cronyism, putting loyalty above merit, it is a disaster in the making. A Defense Secretary that takes National Security as a joke. Then there is the Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, destroying the education system, a portfolio that she is clearly unsuitable for. Really a square peg in a round hole as with all the others. She cannot even tell the difference between AI and A1, a brand of sauce.
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Trump is now trying to scare China, passing an order to mine rare earth in deep sea. That must be the mother of all rhetorics, without thinking about the cost of doing it. Rare earths raw materials can be found in abundance on the earth's surface - with substantial reserves in Vietnam, Brazil, Russia and India, besides China. China dominates in reserves and processing which no other country can touch.
Yes, rare earth is not rare at all, and some Western sources are trying to spin the narrative that it is unfortunate for China that there are alternatives for countries to mine them. The problem runs further than mining them, with logistics processing them to make it into useful metals is all controlled by China. Further, there are environmental, and radiation factors involved, which some countries are least able to set up mines without running into opposition.
So, what if the USA can mine them in the deep sea. Are there processing logistics set up in the USA already to process them, or are those ideas just plucked from thin air. When will such mining work start when the USA military industrial complex, semiconductor makers, EV makers are waiting anxiously for their supplies in the face of China's ban? As a non-technical person, can I assume that processing such raw rare earth mined from the bottom of the sea probably needs a different processing method, just like crude oil. It is not a case of one size fits all.
I believe this is another hot air being blown by Trump to fool the world and to distract attention to his other failures, but certainly not China. China has plenty of time to watch the clowning, while the USA continues to shoot its own foot.
China does not need huge responses to counter the USA. Just a tiny retaliation using rare earth causes massive pain. Such a calibrated retaliation costs China relatively little damage to its citizens but reaps massive benefits for China. China's retaliation is calibrated to induce massive harm to the USA.
China retaliated against the USA's agricultural sector during Trump's first term trade war, creating chaos for USA farmers and in this second Trump's term is going in for the kill by wiping out most USA farmers and their livelihood. These are also the MAGA base of Trump voters, besides manufacturing, and are turning them against the Trump administration.
Farmers in USA are unlikely to find ways to go back to business as usual with China ever again. Farmers in Brazil, Argentina and Russia are taking over their businesses with China forever. The Chinese market is gone for them, with no credible substitute for volume and size to match. This is what 'Make USA Great Again' is turning into and is making China even greater.
China does not ever been known to shout about 'Making China Great Again' and let the reality shout for itself. The USA can shout itself coarse but reaps little benefit. Empty vessels make the most noise.
Luxury brands are suing Chinese manufacturers for exposing their scam regarding their products made in China. Now, this action is going to consolidate the reality that they had been carrying out a scam for decades and screwing customers into paying an arm and a leg for their products. The suing is going to backfire badly, in reality just scooping up shit to cover their faces.
The other point to note is that by suing for exposure of the truth, it indicates that bags made in China for them are no longer what some in the West call 'junks'. Seriously, if even well-known luxury brands made their bags in China, can anyone say that China only makes junks?
I believe this is going to end up badly for luxury brands, just like one USA AI giant wanting to sue DeepSeek and having to backtrack later.
Pope had a heart attack after seeing Vance with all the makeup.
Trump lives in an alternative world where right is wrong and wrong is right.
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