Trump's Art of the Deal is all based on empty threats and when countries fight back with alternatives, he caves like a house of cards. Trump does not know that the cards he holds are now basically all printed by others and they know what kind of card he holds and what sort of player he is. Those that he can bully, he will swallow them whole, flesh, bones and hair, like Japan and South Korea. Now the Europeans have also seen through his Art of the Deal and are retaliating. Trump's latest threat of a 25% tariff on European cars instead of the 15% is going to start another tariff war that will push the Europeans towards Asia, just like Canada. Trump will TACO as usual. Just watch. But sometimes, TACO is too late.
As I said before, this is no longer the era of the twentieth century where countries have no alternatives but to succumb to USA threats, having to rely largely on the USA market. That is no longer the case. When one door closes another open for them.
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Trump is again saying that if Iran targets USA warships in the Middle East, he is going to blow Iran from the face of the earth. No more just blowing Iran to the stone age but eradicating more than 90 million Iranians from the face of the earth. That had been the same mantra chanted when Trump was trying to threaten Kim Jong Un to de-nuclearize years ago.
Now, Iran is a five-thousand-year civilization that has gone through annihilation before by the Romans partially and the Mongols totally among others. Not only did Iran survive, but the invaders were eventually absorbed and assimilated into the Iranian culture, behavior and system. Not only did the invaders not able to impose their culture and behavior on the conquered Iranians, but they were instead under the influence of their defeated enemy. That Iran could rise despite all those annihilation attempts says a lot about its tenacity and resilience.
Now, this is the same scenario that happened against China, another five-thousand-year civilization that withstood all the attempts to tear it apart. China had been under Mongol rule of Genghis Khan and history tells us that the Mongols, instead of imposing its culture on the Chinese during the Yuan Dynasty, were reported to discard their nomadic lifestyle and being assimilated and adopting the Chinese way of life and Governance of the country.
That is also the case with the Northern China nomadic Manchus that ruled China under the Qing Dynasty. The Manchus tried to impose its culture on the rest of China by force but failed. The Dynasty was to be the last to rule China. Each time China was humiliated but rose again and again.
Trump is now upping the ante by imposing sanctions on five Chinese oil refineries, possibly an attempt to faking the upper hand in his coming meeting with Xi. China responded by asking those Chinese refineries to just ignore the USA sanctions. This red line had never been crossed by China before and China is now doing it, telling the USA not to interfere in China's internal oil policy and legal import of Iranian oil that the UN had never sanctioned.
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