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China has purchased soybeans, just 1/3rd less with commitments to purchase the next few years at levels below the average over the past 10. Trump has made SOUTH America great again in the soybean world, while also causing damage to US corn and soy farming. Only he can break it.
"Trump and Trump alone is the principal, pressing problem. And Trump is a made-in-America monster. Itâs up to Americans to un-make him and set things straight â which they surely will, sooner or later."
*though that overweight narcissistic moron has a Supreme Court and a crew of fascistic weasels committing these crimes against our Nation.
I have a hypothesis that explains how Trump's head is working. Some seem to think he is smart and many seem to think he is hard to understand but he is not smart and has a simple mind.
Trump was born into wealth and has a history of doing business deals within real estate, as such he filed for bankruptcy 4 times and was involved in over 4000 legal cases. I think he has developed a philosophy where he has zero respect for authorities and laws and moral and he believes that if he reaches his goal (of e g acquiring some real estate) and the cost isn't too high, then it is a success, even if he broke some laws, offended people, made people not trust him anymore.
And now, as president, his goal is to create a monument after himself, and he uses the only tools he knows. End of hypothesis.
What he will achieve is a severe decline in US economy for decades to come, nations formerly partners in trade and security largely abandoning USA in favor of the rest of the world both in normal trade and purchase of military equipment, which has until now been a cash cow for USA, because they no longer trust USA and need to rely on other nations than USA as well as on themselves.
Gee we donât have to pay the billion dollar membership fee to be a part of a group to inflate Trumpâs sense of ego and importance that is bound to get little to nothing done?
No, more a sum of European public broadcasting, following multiple international defence analysts on a regular basis, studying history and majoring in US foreign policy back in the 80s, watching events unfold in Europe post 1989, living here, you know, that kind of bubble perspective thing you are struggling to shoehorn me into. It's a pretty big bubble.
It's also the failed logic of zero sum game. "Why are we 'letting' the rest of the world benefit from our largess?". When of course we are also benefitting greatly and wouldn't have so much largess without the rest of the world. They view anything that some one else 'gets' as something they lost. It's a stupidly naive view of the world that most people grow out of by the time they are 6 years old.
Because Trump wants his name on something for history's sake (silly to think it wouldn't get changed), and he seems intent on going as far as necessary to avoid whatever the hell is in the Epstein files.
He's going to get it. His name will be synonymous with the greatest re-alignment post WW 2. The re-alignment that moved the US out of the global top spot and handed control of world trade and influence to a toss up of BRICs nations. It will be the biggest unforced error ever, and he will be remembered for it.
A nation with a $38 Trillion debt, 30% of it owned by foreign nations, does not, in point of fact, hold all the cards.
A nation who imports 27% of consumer goods, 26% of capital goods, and 25% of its industrial supplies does not hold all the cards.
A nation that imports nearly every phone, every laptop, every server, every data storage device, every network communications device, outsources most of its software, and cannot function socially, militarily, or economically without those devices, does not hold all the cards.
A nation that imports over 90% of potash fertilizer without which its agricultural sector would fail within one growing season does not hold all the cards.
A nation that has to import eight to nine million barrels of oil DAILY in order to keep its refineries in efficient operation does not hold all the cards.
A nation that imports nearly 50% of its name brand prescription drugs and 90% of generics, and furthermore imports nearly 70% of active ingredients for domestic manufacture, does not hold all the cards.
A nation that depends on foreign allies, bases, airspace, sea lanes, supply, and assets to maintain a global military presence does not hold all the cards.
The only card Trump is holding at the moment is the Joker.
