Trump chased out all heavy industries and now only has weapons industries to go by

Trump has now changed his tune. He is not trying to bring back manufacturing of sneakers and T-shirts. USA workers are too fat and lazy to work in sweatshops as shown by those mocking memes on Tik Tok that the Chinese made. He is now luring manufacturers of military tanks and technology. What about keeping out technology companies like Huawei and BYD and chasing away companies like John Deere, Ford, Harley Davison and now forcing Nvidia to set up a R & D unit in China and Amazon and Walmart setting up headquarters for their operation outside the USA? The narrative does not fit the reality of Trump's actions.

For a start, does the USA really have the skilled workforce for bringing back such high skilled industries? The USA can do that if it changes its education system now to turn out more engineers and scientist, not otherwise. That is going to take years, or even decades. Putting the cart before the horse is not going to fool anybody. And if that was the reason for his tariffs, why try to erect high tariffs on everything besides weapons and technology, which the USA can ill afford to do without? Another con exposed?


Anonymous

Indians are good at taking over American and western corporations

Does not able to build anything include toilets I just wonder. Such basic thing as building toilets is already beyond them, so you cannot expect them to build things of a higher order, right?
Now India is furiously touting about building AI and already gloating about success on Channel News America. Only some success in India is seen so far, if true, not globally yet and they are already making a song and dance about it, Bollywood style. And India's AI development is going up against the USA, EU and China. DeepSeek did not gloat about success, but when it rolled out, the whole world was taken by surprise. That is the real meaning of success, not kampong style success.

Let us be honest. What has India achieved in terms of Global success in anything after years of gloating? Does India have apps like Tik Tok that are able to compete globally? Does India have a global standing in Mobile phone usage worldwide? Does India have a Huawei instilling fear in Western circles that they have to invent propagandas to demonize it because they could not compete against it?

Yes, India is good as raiders, eyeing companies that invested and succeed in India before passing laws to punish them and force them to sell to cronies of Indian leaders. Now, those investors are running away from India with just their pants on. Trump is even telling Apple not to invest in India. Funny that Trump has not warned Apple not to invest in China or pull out of China so far.

Apple is now caught in between the devil and the deep blue sea. Making iPhone outside the USA will result in a 25% tariff for the moment, not knowing what else more is to come. Making iPhones in USA is not feasible. with prohibitive costs and supply chain issues and still dependent on China and still subject to tariffs being negotiated. And rare earth materials are not going to be so readily available in USA with China stepping up investigation and tightening the noose against other countries like South Korea and UK, discreetly buying and reselling rare earth materials to the USA.


Anonymous

After Zelensky, now Ramaphosa. Any silly leader still wants to be embarrassed meeting Trump?

Trump tried to rattle South Africa's President, Cyril Ramaphosa, during the latter's visit to Washington, with the accusation that South Africa is conducting genocide against White farmers. This has already been investigated earlier and proven to be false and just lies, given that such deaths of farmers occurred among all races and not just White farmers alone. What about the genocides committed during Apartheid by the White regime against the blacks? Conveniently forgotten?

Trump, as usual, the dumb fxxk that he is, takes such propaganda at face value from people in his orbit like Elon Musk, all with agendas against South Africa. Cyril Ramaphosa was not cowed and exposed Trump's attempt to rattle him and put him in a bad light. And he had the support of other global leaders, putting Trump in a spot over his apparent ignorance about reality and recent history.

We all know that South Africa is a founder member of BRICS, a country that stands strongly behind the people in Gaza and had a pending case of genocide in Gaza against Israel at the International Court of Justice, a very brave stance to say the least. There were earlier attempts to demonize South Africa over accusations of sending military weapons to Russia. All these issues have put South Africa in the frontline of attacks by the USA, Israel and the West.

South Africa and now Burkina Faso have strong leaders that are brave enough to challenge the West, and the Western powers do not like it. There have been many attempts to assassinate Ibrahim Traore, the leader of Burkina Faso, even bribing his own bodyguards to do it. Such attempts will not stop until they succeed. Let us pray that God protects a good man.


Anonymous

Naughty French not allowed access to investigate Rafales in India

 While the whole world has quietly accepted India's lost of 3 Rafales, 1 SU30, 1 MiG29 and a Mirage2000 to Pakistan, India is celebrating its own victory, claiming to have shot down a Pakistani AWACS, 2 F16s, 1 JF17 and a C130. None of India's claims has been acknowledged by the rest of the world. But this did not bother the Indians. They are all delirious in their self claimed victory in their Operation Sindoor.

The French are still not sure how many Rafales had been shot down. They want to know the exact number. India has claimed that not a single Rafale has been shot down. The French try to find out by another way. They send a team of engineers to India as part of a post sale maintenance package to check on the Rafales.

India pointedly said no. No need post sale maintenance. India is capable of looking after the Rafales and all the Rafales are safe. The Indians see through the ploy of the French, making this visit to gain access to the Rafales to want to find out how many Rafales are left and how many were actually shot down.

The Indians have closed the door to the naughty French. Anyway, if all the Rafales are safe, there is no reason to stop the French from taking stock of the Rafales in IAF. The more the Indians try to keep the French away, try to hide their Rafales from the French, it is an indirect admission that some Rafales were shot down.

The big question, how many? 3 or more?

Indians are raiders, cannot build anything on their own, but raid on what others built

 As a country, India is anything but a success. It is still bragging about a 3 trillion plus economy, the fourth or fifth biggest in the world. Spread among 1.4b Indians, this is tiny. Its military weapons are based on what they can buy or pick up from the shelves. Its industry is still mainly agrarian and rustic, no real industrial base. Its automotive industry is only good at building tuk tuk level of transportation. Its missile or rocket technology or space technology is good to travel to the sun. No mobile phone technology, no communication technology to talk about.

India is proud of its IT but mainly in software, not hardware, not chips and not heavy engineering stuff. How good is Indian IT is best seen by the performance of Boeing aircraft and NASA. As a nation state, it has nothing to talk about in this field, nothing that stands out to call its own. Oops, maybe they can brag about call centres.

It is true that Indians have a lot of talented individuals. But these individuals too cannot grow on their own but need a big tree to attach to for them to grow and flourish, like those plants attaching themselves to big trees, sucking the nutrients from the trees to climb higher. They are very successful in this way to shine in many American and western countries, to become CEOs and top management. Other than a few native Indian companies, all the top Indian CEOs are riding on companies and corporations built by others outside India.

In the animal world, the closest specie that resembles the Indians is the cuckoo bird. They laid their eggs in nests built by other birds, kicked out the eggs laid by the other birds, and let the other birds to hatch their eggs, feed and grow to become cuckoo birds, without knowing that the chicks were not their own. Their own eggs already kicked out by the cuckoo birds and perished. In the end, the cuckoo birds own the nests and everything, calling everything their own, without the other birds knowing what had happened.

This is India's strength. The neighbours of India have known this for ages and are all breaking free from India's stranglehold and bullying. India now does not have a neighbour that it can call as friend. All of India's immediate neighbours have joined the Chinese economic train to leapfrog over India, to be free from Indian aggression and bullying.