Ukraine War - Conman Trump running out of ideas to coerce Putin

 Now we are seeing Trump being cornered with his boasting about settling the Ukraine War within 24 hours of him taking office. Today is his fourth day in office and Trump is having to crack his head to wriggle his way out. We know, and Trump knows that a 24-hour peace settlement is an impossibility and just a fantasy that only Trump can think of. But perhaps with his bullshitting and conman experience, having conned others to believe in his integrity after six bankruptcies, Trump still believes he has what it takes to carry out another massive con job.

Trump is not even aware what Putin wants in Ukraine and goes on to promote himself as if he is Almighty God and able to do a miracle, bringing an end to the three-year war.

Looking at Trump sitting at his table on Channel News American, with dozens of 'Executive Orders' covering his table, waiting for his signature, I would think he might be having a whale of a time signing them and gloating - 'Sign baby sign'. It is just ink and paper only, LOL.

Now it looks like Trump is cooking up another distraction to cover his earlier boast, which is trying to coerce Putin into allowing NATO troops to move closer to Moscow in Ukraine. That is precisely what Putin is against. By threatening more sanctions hoping to make Putin agree, the Russians are practically telling Trump to bring it on. What can the USA do about tariffs when Russia is not selling to the USA? Russia is already decoupled from the USA!

What other more harmful sanctions can Trump think of that have not already been used against Russia? What the USA and the West wanted to seize from Russia have already been seized. And the rest of the world have been given a valuable stark lesson in trusting the USA and the Europeans and the consequence thereof.

The USA and EU are practically scraping the bottom of the barrel to find any more meaningful sanctions left to use against Russia. They probably have now to resort to fabricating measure just like in Iraq to turn global opinion against Russia, which is no longer going to work. The rest of the world have learnt a bitter lesson - Once bitten, twice shy.

Anonymous

Who are the happiest people, European or Chinese?

 Currently, under the Global Happiness Index, the Europeans are the happiest people on the planet, with their higher per capita income and per capita GDP. That was supposed to be the way that the world was supposed to work and behave. And that was the ranking order for many years.

But, just last year we had a ranking survey that puts Chinese as the happiest people in the world, based on several parameters in a happiness survey. How could the Chinese, with their meagre income be happier than the Anglo-Saxon Whites in Europe? That was not supposed to happen, and that survey disappeared right away and have not seen the light of day ever since. The Europeans again took most of the top spots in the happiness index and everyone in the West are now very happy with the sleight of hand adjustment.

The reality has now hit them hard in the groin. USA citizens have discovered that the Chinese are indeed very happy people in their interaction with them on Rednote. This is not a lie after all. What does this lesson teach us? That you cannot live a lie long enough for it to be permanently kept secret.

So, are the Chinese not really the happiest people on the planet and deserve to be listed as the top country in the happiness index? Oh, I know they are going to say that a socialist country under a dictator cannot qualify to be the happiest country in the world. I rest my case.

Anonymous

PS. Allow me to add this clip to this post by Anonymous.

Watch this 45 minute clip of the Chinese celebrating the Chinese New Year. The full show was 4 hours as China has to many singers and performers that a one or two hour show would not do justice to the artistes, singers and dancers. 

The ask yourself, are they not the happiest people on earth? See their rich costumes, the stage, the number of performers, the AI generated visuals etc etc. It cost a lot of money to put up such a show. And the western media are saying the Chinese economy is collapsing and the people are having a hard time living.

When all the dollars return to America to roost

 The dedollarisation high speed train is running at full speed. Are the Americans afraid? Nay, Trump is challenging the BRICS' countries and threatening to impose more tariffs against them if they dare to try to dedollarise. Trump is playing brinkmanship or telling the BRICS countries not to go against the American Empire or else....

The possibility of BRICS countries and the rest of the world to stop dedollarisation is nil. More and more countries are reducing trade with the Americans out of necessity and self preservation. There is practically nothing to buy from the Americans that needs the American dollars. And more and more countries have nothing to sell to the Americans. Tariffs or no tariffs does not mean anything to them. The decoupling from the American economy is becoming a natural phenomenon. When trade with the Americans drops to an insignificant level, there will be less demand for the dollar, and less need to hold them. Who is still thinking of buying American legacy cars or Boeing aircraft or iPhones?

The second point is the vicious cycle of banks, institutions and nation states finding it riskier to hold the dollar as a reserve. They will start to downsize their dollar holdings, and a little drizzle could end up turning into a storm.

International trade would go on but without the need for the dollar. All trades would be using their own currencies or BRICS' currency, or new currency being developed. China, the biggest exporters would not be accepting the dollar for their goods and services. So would be the rest of the world.

What would happen to those holding the dollars? The only place they can spend it is to buy whatever they could from the Americans. They need to dispose of their dollars before they become worthless. Another way to dispose the dollars is to buy other currencies if they could in the exchange market. This would prove difficult by the day when no one is accepting the dollar. Maybe they could change into some European currencies as an intermediary.  The USA would be the dumping ground for the dollar with Europe as a secondary market.

What would happen when all the dollars printed return to the USA? Every country, every institution would be dumping the dollar into the American market, buy whatever they could lay their hands on, maybe properties and land. The years of reckless printing of the dollar will pay proportionally with the dollar coming home to roost. The Americans would be very rich with plenty of dollars flooding the streets of America, or maybe Europe.

Trump can raise all the tariffs by 100s or 1,000 times, who cares? No one is going to sell to the Americans. It would be a one way traffic, to dump the dollar quickly before it is too late. There will be no place for the dollar outside America and Europe. The two can trade among themselves.

This could be the scenario going forward when dedollarisation hits full steam. Would the Americans be pointing a gun at everyone to use or accept the dollar? It would be futile when there is nothing to buy from the Americans...while the dollar is not accepted by countries around the world.

Empire of Lies fabricating more silly lies

 Now the USA is floating the narrative that DeepSeek is following the model of OpenAI or something to that effect and they are investigating. What model are they talking about when the USA is so tight in controlling its technological model and so-called edge that China had no way to breathe? If DeepSeek had been following the model of OpenAI, how is it possible for DeepSeek to even better the performance of OpenAI in some parameters being tested?

If the USA had a Space Station to boast about, I think they will accuse the Chinese of using their model and try to prevent the Chinese from having their own Tiangong Space Station. If the USA had high-speed railways before China did, would they also be saying that China is following their model and using their patents, which should not be allowed? If the USA had real 5G mobile technology and infrastructures, they would undoubtedly claim that Huawei had used their 5G technology model and must be stopped, instead of using their 'National Security Reason' threat that cannot be proven.

Do we remember that the USA had wanted to target DJI by claiming it used a technology that had been used by the USA military drone maker and therefore is an infringement. DJI's drone technology had little to do with or correspond with the USA's drone technology, and is even more advanced, but they tried to make the accusation stick.

Now that China came out with its 6th generation fighter jet that is way more advance in design, without the usual tail flaps, but with wing tip flaps for control, is the USA going to come up with claims that it is their model that the Chinese have tried to copy? The USA might even claim that they are the first to talk and breathe and the Chinese are following their model, five thousand years before them.

The situation is now so ridiculous, atrocious and skewed with the USA even claiming that China has no right to have any influence anywhere in the world, with Marco Rubio now going around the world trying to counter Chinese influence by telling countries that China must not be allowed to have any influence anywhere in the world.

Why is the USA not accusing China that it is just following 'USA's model' of trying to gain more global influence?

Anonymous

PS. The American gangsters and liars are pulling out their playbook of lies and smear campaign and now accusing DeepSeek of intellectual properties. It is as good as alleging BYD of copying from American automobile companies because BYD cars have 4 wheels, stealing the idea from the Americans which also have 4 wheels cars. The shameful American losers would keep making a fool of themselves when someone comes out with a better product than them.

Americans in the RedNote are envious and jealous of the Chinese people's affordable lifestyle

 So many USA citizens on Rednote are jealous of the Chinese people being able to live comfortably and needing only one job, while they need two and sometimes three jobs. One job to put food on the table, the second job to pay rent for their shelter and needing a third job to have enough for kids schooling and medical treatment.

We honestly could not fathom the amount of money that the USA voters are paying for basic things like dental care, education costs for kids in college, groceries, with some chocking up debts that are unpayable. Same as the USA Government being unable to pay its debts of US$35 trillion and rising.

The USA voters are even more sore that most Chinese owned their homes, while in the USA the poor have to pay exorbitant rents to super rich property owners to have a roof over their heads. Ever wonder how the rich in USA gets richer, with blessings from the USA Government. It is a system of the 1%, by the 1% and for the 1%. 

Anonymous