If It Talks Like An Idiot, If It Walks Like An Idiot, It Most Likely Is An Idiot.
Trump sounds like all the past American diplomatic stupidity, all rapped up in one person.
President elect Donald Trump thinks he can stop gravity. The planet’s gravitational forces are pressing down so hard on American global dominance that US oligarchs, are attempting a tough front to scare the world and chosen Trump as their messiah. All falling empires pray for a messiah, who is then deified as the saviour. Hell, Rome painted itself in Christianity to maintain dominance but a messiah with a name like Donald, ain’t going very far. Donald, the man of miracles has none and will eat crow, every step, as he backs America up from the advancing world toward and then over the cliff.
Picking a fight with world to force US dollar dominance was what provoked de-dollarization in the first place. The US blew it’s entire treasure securing dollar dominance and then resorted to colonialism claiming other nation’s resources belonged to America. The assassinations, torture, blackmail and war, that the US used to secure global dollar dominance is why the world is dumping the US dollar. If the US cuts the world off from American markets, the world will simply sell into many other fast developing markets all around the world.
The trouble with Trump’s dollar dominance posture, is that there are two very large competing economies, China’s and Russia’s, that are speeding up the pace of increasing the buying power of all mother markets, other than America’s. It was really, military might that kept the US dollar dominant and Russia has just taken that away. Hell, even the Houthis had a working hypersonic missile before the US, who still doesn’t have, not one working model. America gave it’s manufacturing floor to China and other nations, setting up the world’s escape, out from under US dollar dominance. So, we can only take Trump’s Tarif threats as the bombastic blathering of an idiot.
Since the US moved it’s currency off of gold and dominated bulk oil and gas purchasing with a US dollar monopoly, the same move Rome made, switching to copper coins from silver and gold, the US oligarchy have saggressively turned to cannibalizing the America public for profits. It was an admittance that Rome did not have enough gold, in the treasury, to cover it’s debts. Now, the US can’t print any more money, if the market for US treasury bonds and the US dollar, are shrinking. Even Japan is dumping US treasury bonds, to save their own markets. No, the US must return to some sort of fiscal balance with the world but Trump blaming the world for America’s economic predicament, it is confronting, attempting to turn the BRICS into an enemy block, a new “Axis of Evil”, will be met with rolling eyes and abandonment of trade with the US but more importantly abandonment of the US dollar, in all trade.
The American oligarchy deliberately destroyed the buying power of the American worker, to kill worker descent. Trump’s class developed a hatred for the American worker and wanted to destroy the unions. First the bosses pushed through the Taft/Hartley Act which crippled union organizing, in 1947. Then Nixon came up with the idea of crushing all public decent by impoverishing American workers, by moving their union jobs to China. Nixon taking advantage of the diplomatic work of the Canadian and Chinese Friendship Association producing Canada’s first trade deal with China, since WWII and signifying, China was open for business. When Nixon and Henry Kissinger were at the Beijing Opera with Chairmen Moa. Moa didn’t honour Nixon with a standing ovation for opening China up to western trade. No, Moa honoured the officials from the Canadian and Chinese Friendship Association, who were in the audience and who actually did all the heavy lifting to open China up to trade. Moa did this deliberately, in front of Tricky Dick, to rub Nixon’s face in his own bullshit. Nixon did not open China up, to western trade, Canadians did. Regardless, the US is down to a paltry 13% union membership in the American work force. With the constantly shrinking buying power of the American worker, the American market looks less and less attractive and who wants to get paid in a devaluing US dollar? No one wants to get caught holding worthless paper money.
Trump and his art of the deal crap might think he is in a strong position with a threat to cut the world off from US markets but in reality, Trump, just being president is a sign of American weakness in the world. The bosses wanted a bull in the China shop, so, they picked Trump to be that bull. Trump is exactly the kind of person that will say anything to stay wealthy, do anything to keep the cash flow going. Trump’s Tarif threats to the world are not a sign of American strength but rather a sign of American weakness and the world’s number crunchers can see it in black and white. Trump can’t win his fight with BRICS as BRICS is already the world’s largest trading block, in terms of individual consumers. This is why Trump’s threat is so extreme, America’s position in the world is now seen as very weak and getting weaker, “At light speed!”
Now that the Russian Federation has revealed a weapon that makes nuclear missiles obsolete, the missile named Hassle, Trump has zero leverage to threaten the world with, except to threaten the world’s access to American markets. This is the equivalent of a ten year old kid picking up all his toys a storming off home because he could get his way with his friends. or in Trump’s case, vassals. This shows the world that President Donald Trump and the rest of the American oligarchy are in a very poor position to demand anything from the world. No, America will eventually cut military and intelligence spending to the bone, to save the central underpinnings of the US economy and I doubt that Trump will lead that policy shift but a likely worker revolt will.