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I keep forgetting that greed is a 21st century invention.
I want to see what will happen when governments lose control of currencies and any person with a desktop invents a new currency that then is only supported by the brief belief on it that some people will give it. And which will lose all value the moment people realize it is backed by nothing.
Oh, wait. Exactly what cryptos are.
Stupid of Milei, indeed. He should know better.
Meantime, in Argentina (where I am right now) the dollar has gone from 1,400/ 1,350 to the dollar (Oct 2023) to 1,090 to the dollar. And this ultra fascist bastard has stabilized the economy and lowered inflation to 2.2% monthly. Which is still shocking, but much better than the 20+% monthly they had a couple of years ago.
Credit where credit is due.
I want to see what will happen when governments lose control of currencies and any person with a desktop invents a new currency that then is only supported by the brief belief on it that some people will give it. And which will lose all value the moment people realize it is backed by nothing.
Oh, wait. Exactly what cryptos are.
Stupid of Milei, indeed. He should know better.
Meantime, in Argentina (where I am right now) the dollar has gone from 1,400/ 1,350 to the dollar (Oct 2023) to 1,090 to the dollar. And this ultra fascist bastard has stabilized the economy and lowered inflation to 2.2% monthly. Which is still shocking, but much better than the 20+% monthly they had a couple of years ago.
Credit where credit is due.
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U.S. and Russia Pursue Partnership in a Head-Spinning Shift in Relations
The two sides met in Saudi Arabia for their most extensive discussions in years. In addition to Ukraine, business ties are on the table.
The two sides discussed ways to end the war in Ukraine and restore relations between Washington and Moscow. The meeting came less than a week after President Trump’s lengthy phone call with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
Senior American and Russian officials agreed on Tuesday to establish teams to work toward ending the war in Ukraine and finding a path toward normalizing relations, in the most extensive negotiations between the two countries in more than three years.
After more than four hours of talks, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that both sides had agreed to work on a peace settlement for Ukraine as well as to explore “the incredible opportunities that exist to partner with the Russians,” both geopolitically and economically.
A senior Kremlin official, Yuri Ushakov, said that both sides had “a very serious discussion on all the issues that we wanted to touch on,” including preparations for a summit meeting between President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin.
The meeting was the latest striking swerve by the Trump administration in abandoning Western efforts to isolate Russia. Since Mr. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States and its Western allies had moved vigorously to punish Russia for causing Europe’s most destructive war in generations.
Instead, the talks on Tuesday showed that Mr. Trump was eager to work with Russia to end the war — an approach that would most likely fulfill many of Mr. Putin’s demands — and that he was prepared to cast aside the worries of American allies in Europe.
The comments suggested that apprehensions in Europe and Ukraine may only deepen that the United States and Russia could try to strike their own peace deal, sidelining Kyiv and American allies. And Russia appeared to have used Tuesday’s talks to cater to Mr. Trump’s interest in profits and natural resources, arguing that American oil companies and others stood to gain hundreds of billions of dollars by again doing business in Russia.
The meeting came less than a week after Mr. Trump’s lengthy phone call with Mr. Putin and took place at a palace in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, whose crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has been seeking to elevate his country’s role on the world stage.
Michael Waltz, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser; and Steve Witkoff, the Middle East envoy and a longtime friend of Mr. Trump, joined Mr. Rubio for the meeting.
The Russian delegation included Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister; Mr. Ushakov, Mr. Putin’s foreign policy adviser; and Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund.
“We weren’t just listening to each other, but we heard each other,” Mr. Lavrov said afterward. “I have reason to believe that the American side started to better understand our positions.”
Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, said he would seek to restart economic cooperation with the United States to “rebuild communication, rebuild trust, rebuild success.
Mr. Dmitriev, who worked with Mr. Witkoff to broker the release last week of an American schoolteacher jailed in Russia, said he would seek to restart economic cooperation with the United States to “rebuild communication, rebuild trust, rebuild success.”
“U.S. oil majors have had very successful business in Russia,” Mr. Dmitriev said in a brief interview on Tuesday before the talks began, offering an example of how the countries could rebuild business ties. “We believe at some point they will be coming back, because why would they forgo these opportunities that Russia gave them to have access to Russian natural resources?”
Leading Western oil companies, including Exxon Mobil, joined many other businesses in pulling out of Russia three years ago amid outrage over Mr. Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Energy and economic ties were among the topics of the call between Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump last week, according to Mr. Trump and the Kremlin. After Tuesday’s meeting, Mr. Rubio described a three-step plan for what the United States and Russia planned to do next.
First, he said, both countries would negotiate how to remove restrictions placed on each other’s embassies in Moscow and Washington, which are operating with skeleton staffs after years of tit-for-tat expulsions.
In addition, he said, the United States would engage with Russia about “parameters of what an end” to the Ukraine war would look like.
“There’s going to be engagement and consultation with Ukraine, with our partners in Europe and others,” Mr. Rubio told reporters. “But ultimately, the Russian side will be indispensable to this effort.”
And finally, he said, Russia and the United States would explore new partnerships, both in geopolitics and in business. He described them as “the extraordinary opportunities that exist should this conflict come to an acceptable end.”
Russian commentators have expressed the hope that talks with the Trump administration and a peace deal in Ukraine could pave the way for the United States to lift the severe sanctions imposed by the Biden administration against Moscow.
Mr. Dmitriev said he would present the American delegation with an estimate showing that American companies lost $300 billion by leaving Russia.
“We need to put all facts on the table and then have a discussion based on facts, and not just ideological dogmas,” Mr. Dmitriev said. “We saw that President Trump is focused on having success.”
Tuesday’s discussions were the first time after Mr. Putin’s invasion in early 2022 that broad delegations of senior American and Russian officials are known to have met in person.
But in Europe and Ukraine, the news of Tuesday’s planned talks had been met with confusion and concern. While Mr. Rubio characterized the talks as preliminary, there was widespread criticism in Europe that Mr. Trump’s approach to Russia had not been coordinated with allies of the United States. And Ukrainian officials insisted they would reject any agreement about their country that was negotiated without their involvement.
“We cannot recognize any agreements made about us without us,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said Monday.
Mr. Zelensky has also been in the Gulf region this week, where several countries have sought to use their relationships with Moscow, Kyiv and the West to play roles as mediators in the Ukraine war. On Monday, Mr. Zelensky was in the United Arab Emirates to discuss prisoner exchanges and the return of Ukrainian children from Russia.
On Tuesday, Mr. Zelensky was set to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in the Turkish capital, Ankara.
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Volodymyr Zelensky and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan walking through an honor guard.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi on Monday.Credit...Ukraine Presidency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Via Getty
Ukrainian officials have also said that Mr. Zelensky will be in Saudi Arabia this week, but that Ukraine was not invited to the U.S.-Russia talks. Mr. Ushakov, the Kremlin foreign policy adviser, said there were no plans for a three-way meeting with the Ukrainians.
“We came here to hold negotiations with American colleagues,” he said.
For Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed, hosting the talks has offered a major opportunity to solidify his status as a global leader with influence that extends beyond the Middle East.
The Saudis, in a Foreign Ministry statement, said they were welcoming the Russians and Americans “as part of the Kingdom’s efforts to enhance security and peace in the world.”
Like other countries in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has avoided taking sides in the Ukraine war.
It has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine while cultivating close ties with Russia. When a Ukraine peace conference was held in Switzerland last June that excluded Russia, Saudi Arabia and the neighboring United Arab Emirates refused to sign the final joint statement.
On Tuesday, two senior Saudi officials — Prince Faisal bin Farhan, the foreign minister; and Musaed al-Aiban, the national security adviser — were seated at the table with the American and Russian officials at the start of their meeting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/worl ... raine.html
So the new axis of evil is Russia, US, and Saudi Arabia?
The two sides met in Saudi Arabia for their most extensive discussions in years. In addition to Ukraine, business ties are on the table.
The two sides discussed ways to end the war in Ukraine and restore relations between Washington and Moscow. The meeting came less than a week after President Trump’s lengthy phone call with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
Senior American and Russian officials agreed on Tuesday to establish teams to work toward ending the war in Ukraine and finding a path toward normalizing relations, in the most extensive negotiations between the two countries in more than three years.
After more than four hours of talks, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that both sides had agreed to work on a peace settlement for Ukraine as well as to explore “the incredible opportunities that exist to partner with the Russians,” both geopolitically and economically.
A senior Kremlin official, Yuri Ushakov, said that both sides had “a very serious discussion on all the issues that we wanted to touch on,” including preparations for a summit meeting between President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin.
The meeting was the latest striking swerve by the Trump administration in abandoning Western efforts to isolate Russia. Since Mr. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States and its Western allies had moved vigorously to punish Russia for causing Europe’s most destructive war in generations.
Instead, the talks on Tuesday showed that Mr. Trump was eager to work with Russia to end the war — an approach that would most likely fulfill many of Mr. Putin’s demands — and that he was prepared to cast aside the worries of American allies in Europe.
The comments suggested that apprehensions in Europe and Ukraine may only deepen that the United States and Russia could try to strike their own peace deal, sidelining Kyiv and American allies. And Russia appeared to have used Tuesday’s talks to cater to Mr. Trump’s interest in profits and natural resources, arguing that American oil companies and others stood to gain hundreds of billions of dollars by again doing business in Russia.
The meeting came less than a week after Mr. Trump’s lengthy phone call with Mr. Putin and took place at a palace in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, whose crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has been seeking to elevate his country’s role on the world stage.
Michael Waltz, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser; and Steve Witkoff, the Middle East envoy and a longtime friend of Mr. Trump, joined Mr. Rubio for the meeting.
The Russian delegation included Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister; Mr. Ushakov, Mr. Putin’s foreign policy adviser; and Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund.
“We weren’t just listening to each other, but we heard each other,” Mr. Lavrov said afterward. “I have reason to believe that the American side started to better understand our positions.”
Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, said he would seek to restart economic cooperation with the United States to “rebuild communication, rebuild trust, rebuild success.
Mr. Dmitriev, who worked with Mr. Witkoff to broker the release last week of an American schoolteacher jailed in Russia, said he would seek to restart economic cooperation with the United States to “rebuild communication, rebuild trust, rebuild success.”
“U.S. oil majors have had very successful business in Russia,” Mr. Dmitriev said in a brief interview on Tuesday before the talks began, offering an example of how the countries could rebuild business ties. “We believe at some point they will be coming back, because why would they forgo these opportunities that Russia gave them to have access to Russian natural resources?”
Leading Western oil companies, including Exxon Mobil, joined many other businesses in pulling out of Russia three years ago amid outrage over Mr. Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Energy and economic ties were among the topics of the call between Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump last week, according to Mr. Trump and the Kremlin. After Tuesday’s meeting, Mr. Rubio described a three-step plan for what the United States and Russia planned to do next.
First, he said, both countries would negotiate how to remove restrictions placed on each other’s embassies in Moscow and Washington, which are operating with skeleton staffs after years of tit-for-tat expulsions.
In addition, he said, the United States would engage with Russia about “parameters of what an end” to the Ukraine war would look like.
“There’s going to be engagement and consultation with Ukraine, with our partners in Europe and others,” Mr. Rubio told reporters. “But ultimately, the Russian side will be indispensable to this effort.”
And finally, he said, Russia and the United States would explore new partnerships, both in geopolitics and in business. He described them as “the extraordinary opportunities that exist should this conflict come to an acceptable end.”
Russian commentators have expressed the hope that talks with the Trump administration and a peace deal in Ukraine could pave the way for the United States to lift the severe sanctions imposed by the Biden administration against Moscow.
Mr. Dmitriev said he would present the American delegation with an estimate showing that American companies lost $300 billion by leaving Russia.
“We need to put all facts on the table and then have a discussion based on facts, and not just ideological dogmas,” Mr. Dmitriev said. “We saw that President Trump is focused on having success.”
Tuesday’s discussions were the first time after Mr. Putin’s invasion in early 2022 that broad delegations of senior American and Russian officials are known to have met in person.
But in Europe and Ukraine, the news of Tuesday’s planned talks had been met with confusion and concern. While Mr. Rubio characterized the talks as preliminary, there was widespread criticism in Europe that Mr. Trump’s approach to Russia had not been coordinated with allies of the United States. And Ukrainian officials insisted they would reject any agreement about their country that was negotiated without their involvement.
“We cannot recognize any agreements made about us without us,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said Monday.
Mr. Zelensky has also been in the Gulf region this week, where several countries have sought to use their relationships with Moscow, Kyiv and the West to play roles as mediators in the Ukraine war. On Monday, Mr. Zelensky was in the United Arab Emirates to discuss prisoner exchanges and the return of Ukrainian children from Russia.
On Tuesday, Mr. Zelensky was set to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in the Turkish capital, Ankara.
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Volodymyr Zelensky and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan walking through an honor guard.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi on Monday.Credit...Ukraine Presidency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Via Getty
Ukrainian officials have also said that Mr. Zelensky will be in Saudi Arabia this week, but that Ukraine was not invited to the U.S.-Russia talks. Mr. Ushakov, the Kremlin foreign policy adviser, said there were no plans for a three-way meeting with the Ukrainians.
“We came here to hold negotiations with American colleagues,” he said.
For Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed, hosting the talks has offered a major opportunity to solidify his status as a global leader with influence that extends beyond the Middle East.
The Saudis, in a Foreign Ministry statement, said they were welcoming the Russians and Americans “as part of the Kingdom’s efforts to enhance security and peace in the world.”
Like other countries in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has avoided taking sides in the Ukraine war.
It has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine while cultivating close ties with Russia. When a Ukraine peace conference was held in Switzerland last June that excluded Russia, Saudi Arabia and the neighboring United Arab Emirates refused to sign the final joint statement.
On Tuesday, two senior Saudi officials — Prince Faisal bin Farhan, the foreign minister; and Musaed al-Aiban, the national security adviser — were seated at the table with the American and Russian officials at the start of their meeting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/worl ... raine.html
So the new axis of evil is Russia, US, and Saudi Arabia?
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Maybe the US is going to join BRICS?Owendonovan wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2025 4:34 pm So the new axis of evil is Russia, US, and Saudi Arabia?
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Pope Francis seems about to check out ..we have 20 million Catholics in India...wonder what changes to expect eith a new Pope ..
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Yes... Time to read again about who the favorites might be. A good chance him being from Americas again or perhaps Asia/Africa? In any case a younger and more vigorous Pope will be welcome.
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Anne ApplebaumAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Merz was a real transatlanticist, on the very pro-American end of the German political spectrum
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A month ago, the idea that the new German chancellor would talk about "independence from the US" would have been unbelievable
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“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.” Albert Einstein
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USTR proposes charging Chinese ships up to $1.5 million to enter US ports
By David Lawder
February 24, 20253:10 PM EST Updated a day ago
Summary
Steep US port fees to discourage use of Chinese vessels
USTR to hold March 24 hearing on fees, shipping restrictions
US shipbuilding has seen steep decline since 1970s
Trump trade team follows up on shipping probe started under Biden
WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Trade Representative's office has proposed charging up to $1.5 million for Chinese-built vessels entering U.S. ports as part of its investigation into China's growing domination of the global shipbuilding, maritime and logistics sectors.
USTR said in a January 16 report on a probe, opens new tab launched during the administration of former President Joe Biden that China increased its share of global shipbuilding tonnage from 5% in 1999 to over 50% in 2023 because of massive state subsidies and preferential treatment for state-owned enterprises that are squeezing out private-sector international competitors. The agency said that U.S. shipyards were building 70 ships in 1975, but just five annually today.
In a Federal Register notice published late on Friday, USTR detailed its proposed fees and other shipping restrictions. The agency scheduled a March 24 public hearing on the remedies.
The probe was launched in April 2024 at the request of the United Steelworkers and four other unions, and conducted under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, as a way to rebuild an industry that has been in deep decline since the 1970s, when Japan and South Korea dominated shipbuilding. The results of the probe were announced last month, just days before Donald Trump was sworn in as president.
The proposed remedies include port entrance fees of up to $1 million per vessel owned by Chinese maritime transport operators, such as the state-owned China Ocean Shipping Co Ltd. Alternatively, the U.S. would charge $1,000 per net ton of a vessel's cargo capacity.
Non-Chinese maritime transport operators operating Chinese-built ships would pay up to $1.5 million per port entry, according to the notice. Those with greater than 50% Chinese-built fleets would pay $1 million per vessel entry regardless of origin. The fee would fall to $750,000 if the Chinese fleet percentage was between 25% and 50% and to $500,000 if under 25%.
A second set of fees in similar amounts could apply to maritime operators with vessels on order from Chinese shipyards to be delivered over the next two years.
USTR said that under the proposal the fees could be refunded by up to $1 million per entry into a U.S. port by a U.S.-built vessel employed in international maritime services.
U.S. VESSEL REQUIREMENTS
The remedies also would require at least 1% of U.S. exports to be shipped on U.S. flagged-vessels for the first two years, including capital goods, consumer goods, agricultural products, and chemical petroleum and gas products.
The percentage would increase to 3% U.S. exports after two years, and 5% after three years. After three years, 3% of U.S. exports would have to be shipped on American-built ships.
After seven years, the restrictions would require at least 15% of U.S. goods to be transported on U.S.-flagged vessels, with 5% on American-built ships.
USTR also said that it recommends restricting access to U.S. shipping data for China's National Transportation and Logistics Public Information Platform or banning U.S. port terminals from using LOGINK software.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodi ... 025-02-24/
By David Lawder
February 24, 20253:10 PM EST Updated a day ago
Summary
Steep US port fees to discourage use of Chinese vessels
USTR to hold March 24 hearing on fees, shipping restrictions
US shipbuilding has seen steep decline since 1970s
Trump trade team follows up on shipping probe started under Biden
WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Trade Representative's office has proposed charging up to $1.5 million for Chinese-built vessels entering U.S. ports as part of its investigation into China's growing domination of the global shipbuilding, maritime and logistics sectors.
USTR said in a January 16 report on a probe, opens new tab launched during the administration of former President Joe Biden that China increased its share of global shipbuilding tonnage from 5% in 1999 to over 50% in 2023 because of massive state subsidies and preferential treatment for state-owned enterprises that are squeezing out private-sector international competitors. The agency said that U.S. shipyards were building 70 ships in 1975, but just five annually today.
In a Federal Register notice published late on Friday, USTR detailed its proposed fees and other shipping restrictions. The agency scheduled a March 24 public hearing on the remedies.
The probe was launched in April 2024 at the request of the United Steelworkers and four other unions, and conducted under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, as a way to rebuild an industry that has been in deep decline since the 1970s, when Japan and South Korea dominated shipbuilding. The results of the probe were announced last month, just days before Donald Trump was sworn in as president.
The proposed remedies include port entrance fees of up to $1 million per vessel owned by Chinese maritime transport operators, such as the state-owned China Ocean Shipping Co Ltd. Alternatively, the U.S. would charge $1,000 per net ton of a vessel's cargo capacity.
Non-Chinese maritime transport operators operating Chinese-built ships would pay up to $1.5 million per port entry, according to the notice. Those with greater than 50% Chinese-built fleets would pay $1 million per vessel entry regardless of origin. The fee would fall to $750,000 if the Chinese fleet percentage was between 25% and 50% and to $500,000 if under 25%.
A second set of fees in similar amounts could apply to maritime operators with vessels on order from Chinese shipyards to be delivered over the next two years.
USTR said that under the proposal the fees could be refunded by up to $1 million per entry into a U.S. port by a U.S.-built vessel employed in international maritime services.
U.S. VESSEL REQUIREMENTS
The remedies also would require at least 1% of U.S. exports to be shipped on U.S. flagged-vessels for the first two years, including capital goods, consumer goods, agricultural products, and chemical petroleum and gas products.
The percentage would increase to 3% U.S. exports after two years, and 5% after three years. After three years, 3% of U.S. exports would have to be shipped on American-built ships.
After seven years, the restrictions would require at least 15% of U.S. goods to be transported on U.S.-flagged vessels, with 5% on American-built ships.
USTR also said that it recommends restricting access to U.S. shipping data for China's National Transportation and Logistics Public Information Platform or banning U.S. port terminals from using LOGINK software.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodi ... 025-02-24/
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When will the USA learn?
YOU created this monster. You moved all your manufacturing to China, they learned how to be an industrial nation, and now, when they have competitive advantages you will never get (mainly, 1 BN people that are cheap labor) you are trying to stop them via legislation.
It's your own monster. Sole way of dealing with this is investing now on other countries. See if that affects China.
YOU created this monster. You moved all your manufacturing to China, they learned how to be an industrial nation, and now, when they have competitive advantages you will never get (mainly, 1 BN people that are cheap labor) you are trying to stop them via legislation.
It's your own monster. Sole way of dealing with this is investing now on other countries. See if that affects China.
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China being super cheap labor is not really true anymore. There are other places if labor cost is the only thing you care about.
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The big problem in the US is that people are looking at relatively cheap consumer goods, and asking why they aren't manufactured in the US, but they've forgotten, or don't remember that when these types of items were manufactured in the US there was a lot fewer choices, and they were much more expensive.
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It is still way cheaper than in the USA. So, for high tech industries that at the same time use a lot of man-power (building ships combines both things), the USA is at a clear disadvantage.
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Video at the link.
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On Trump, Germany and NATO: Trump doesnt know history, so he doesnt realize that there were three reasons why NATO was created - he only knows one (maybe)
1. which T knows - as a bulwark against Soviet (Russian, now) aggression
2. To keep Europe united
3. to prevent the rise of the German war machine - the two most feared in the world are the German and Japanese military machines. The US has worked very hard over the years to ensure that neither country rebuilds them - because once they are built, they are virtually impossible to defeat.
By insisting on Germany spending more on defence, Trump is undoing #3 - which was always an unspoken goal ...
1. which T knows - as a bulwark against Soviet (Russian, now) aggression
2. To keep Europe united
3. to prevent the rise of the German war machine - the two most feared in the world are the German and Japanese military machines. The US has worked very hard over the years to ensure that neither country rebuilds them - because once they are built, they are virtually impossible to defeat.
By insisting on Germany spending more on defence, Trump is undoing #3 - which was always an unspoken goal ...
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