Trump is behaving strangely, mentally unsound?

 Now Trumps wants to rename the 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America".

Perhaps it is also time to start renaming him from 'Donald Trump' to 'Dotard Trump', a degrading insult given by Kim Jong Un. 'Dotard' means 'a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise'.

Trump is behaving strangely, mentally unsound and a danger to the world. Biden was thought to be mentally sick and unfit to lead, but now it seems Trump is even worse. From the frying pan into the fire, it seems.

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De dollarisation is hurting the Americans

De-dollarization is obviously not a sign of keeping mum. It is going to be a discreet, unrelenting, masterstroke in the making to mitigate the US$ hegemony. That is why Trump is rattled and using threats against those trying to use less of the US$. Trump threatens tariffs on countries distancing themselves from the use of the US$. That indicates that de-dollarization moves are hurting the US$ under the radar, deny as much as the USA likes. It looks like the USA is just making hay while the sun still shines today, by spending like no tomorrow over the last couple of years, using its money printing privilege to flood the world with US$.

The USA is terrified of the consequence of losing the US$ hegemony, which will make its sanctions totally ineffective and curtail its spending spree. Not that sanctions are still working like a charm in making countries collapse. In fact, countries are finding ways to overcome that and most have succeeded. How then could Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran and Russia still be standing despite all the sanctions that the USA and its allies imposed on them?

The biggest effect of overcapacity of US$ will hit USA citizens more than others with countries not investing much in US bonds and treasuries other than the Anglo-Saxon countries. They are going to pay more for imports with all the tariffs being touted, while the US$ itself continues to depreciate in buying power inside the USA.

Amidst all that is happening inside the USA, China is exporting 'deflation' by providing the rest of the world with cheaper and cheaper products, which the USA does not want and which China in time do not want to even export to. Since other countries in the Global South are going to open up their markets to China without using tariffs to curb such imports, who do we think where China's exports are going to move to?

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Trump invites Xi but uninvites Modi to his inauguration

 

Why Trump Didn’t Invite Modi to His Inauguration? Trump invited Xi personally in a phone call. The difference in treatment is stark. Modi even sent Jaishankar to beg for an invite but was turned down. No Modi invite but only the foreign minister needs to attend. After all the hugging and kissing, Trump has rejected Modi while calling Xi his good friend. Why?  6 min clip explaining why Modi was left out in the cold.

Xi is invited but not eager to attend. Modi eager to attend but not invited but still begging to be invited. This is first class act from unpredictable Trump. Modi thinks he is so clever to straddle on two boats at the same time and the Americans could not do anything to him, did not know how to deal with him.

Other than Xi, Trump invited many other leaders, including Zelensky and Milei. Poor Modi singled out to be left out of the invitation list. How can Trump not invite the self proclaimed leader of the Global South? This is like giving Modi a tight slap. Behave yourself and you will be treated better next time. And this is despite Modi not supporting de dollarisation, going against the interests of BRICS to support Trump.

Beware, the wrath of God. Stop playing with fire!

LA fire. Picture credit, bing.com

Gaza today. Picture credit, bing.com

Beware the fury of God. What the Americans and the Israelis have done to Gaza may go unpunished by the mortals as no one is in a position to punish the two most powerful terrorist states on earth. And they think they can keep on killing, bombing the Palestinians to Stone Age with impunity. They are untouchable. They are so powerful and committing Genocide is like a walk in the park. Do not be so sure.

God is watching from above. Do not play with fire. God is furious and returning fire with fire to teach the devils a painful lesson. No one can deceive God. God knows the American terrorists are behind the Gaza Genocide, the main actor in the massacre of the Palestinians. 

God's fury shalt not be taken lightly. Stop the massacre in Gaza, Palestine at once or face with more fury from God. God has spoken. The hapless Palestinians would not be massacred by the ruthless American and Israeli savages without any recourse.

Beware, the wrath of God! Amen.

China's idealist foreign policies need to change

  Ever since China regained its control of its land and people as an independent nation state, it has followed a foreign policy of wanting to win friends around the world. Every nation state is a friend or potential friend of China. China does not take the position that a country is an enemy. Not even the AngloSaxon anti China countries. This idealistic foreign policy has been pursued relentlessly without exceptions. Good, bad and ugly nation states are all welcomed and treated fairly, generously as equals, as friends.

After more than 70 years of diplomacy under this 'everyone is a friend or potential to be a friend', China must have had enough experience and wisdom gained from the ups and downs of winning friends in the world. China must know by now that there are real friends, genuine friends, fine weather friends, convenient friends and opportunistic friends. And they are also enemies, forever enemies that cannot be won by generosity and kindness. China cannot expect that all countries would want to be friends of China. China must expect some countries that would be permanent enemies of China.

China have wasted a lot of funds and resources courting potential friends and permanent enemies hoping that they would become friends but have been kicked in its asses real hard, betrayed, cheated, and treated as stupid by these ungrateful countries. It is time for China to wake up from its folly that it can win the whole world and be friends to the whole world.

China must be selective and discriminative in its cultivation of friends. Some would be permanent friends, some would be temporary friends, some would never be friends. China can be generous to friends, even temporary friends. But China must stop its silly policies to want to win over countries that would be permanent enemies. The notion that nations have permanent interests, but not permanent friends/enemies may not apply to some countries.

For countries that would be permanent enemies, China should cut losses and stay away from them. If China can have good friends with 70 or 80 per cent of the countries of the world, that would be good enough. The permanent enemies of China can be set aside, and China would not lose anything without them. Continuing to pursue these permanent incorrigible anti China countries would be futile and be seen as naivety, stupid and silly. Just keep them at arm's length. If they want to trade, just trade and nothing more. No need to bend backwards to be nice to them. They will never be friends of China.

By doing so, China also would signal to those temporary friends and temporary enemies that their relations with China depends on how they treat China. China would not be a fool to be taken advantage off, to beg these permanent enemies and temporary enemies to be friends and to throw money and aids to them. Just cut them off permanently for permanent enemies and treat the temporary friends and temporary enemies with caution, without indulging in them foolishly.

China must make a choice between friends and foes and treat them accordingly. The stupid and naive policies of the past must change to deal with the realities of the world. The world cannot be perfect, and goodness be reciprocated with goodness. Many of the permanent enemies should be left on the cold shelf for good.