Re: Re: US tariff retaliation
By: hollowone to paulie420 on Thu Mar 06 2025 12:34 am
> I'm far away, and your biggest "success" is that I stopped taking care or
> hoping America can be an international partner and I'm more about to support
> we all should eventually build counter-US alliance in the remaining part of
> the west.
Actually, it feels to me like Trump intends to become less linked economically t
o European powers. I think he believes the real threat to American hegemony is C
hina.
European population has been very anti-american since the Bush days. Also, Europ
e is falling into irrelevancy quite fast (traditionally powerful European countr
ies such as France and Germany are in deep political or economical crisis, and t
he growth of the Eurozone compared to pretty much everybody else in the last cou
ple of years has been laughable). So I guess Trump, being an isolationist, belie
ves he can play economical poker since Europe is in a visibly weakened position.
TBH it looks to me like Trump's strategy right now is to do what I do in life an
d keep a small bunch of real friends besides, rather than a large group of false
friends. This is why Trump was seen endorsing Morrocco when it comes to the sov
ereignity of Ceuta and Melilla against the interests of Spain. It might look lik
e a dick move until you realize Spain has been a mostly anti-american countryfor
, dunno, more than 20 years...? and our President has declared himself to be the
leader of the worldwide opposition to American policies... When you add that la
st time Spanish military did a coordinated operation with Americans, the Spanish
ran away when the fighting started, it is no wonder America would get rid of ou
r "support".
So, all in all, I don't think the tariff move is a fumble. I don't think it is g
ood either - commerce is the ultimate pacification phenomena, so it should not b
e impedded.
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