What Trump is really doing to protect all the Americas financially and militarily. The dims don’t want you to understand. They support commie China
The current strategy is to show with facts why once Greenland is free of toothless Denmark and becomes deeply enmeshed with the US however that goal looks when it happens. It’s in Greenland’s best interest. We aren’t invading Panama, Mexica much less Canada Greenland. It’s all about common sense. Not being screwed financially and militarily re the canal we built and paid for and protected for decades. Undoing NAFTA and make safety work best for all the Americas staring with evicting China.
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@danielsnyder At the end of WWII our agreement was that we, the US would set up and man and maintain bases in Germany so that the Germans would have no need to militarize. NATO modified that agreement, but the principle – a less militarized Germany protected by numerous US bases – still exists.
And now Tяump is pretending that we never had any special responsibility towards Germany. That's the basis of his pretense that NATO isn't spending enough.
Tяump is WRONG. We undertook Germany's defense to minimize German militarization. If Tяump wants to renegotiate that, he needs to do so explicitly.
@danielsnyder And what really worries me is in 1928 the merrygoround stopped because everyone realised the US was rich but everyone else was poor and the US had no one to sell to anymore. And oh look - the US is rich and determied to get richer and everyone else is poor - watch out below !
@ElwoodBlues Aram Smith - The wealth of nations - if you want someone to run an ecnonmy ask a scot (oh yeah but Trump claims to be a scot - mind you I bet he doesnt know the words of "Flower of Scotland" so we can dismiss that idea immediately).
Now I see. You’re a foreigner enjoying the benefits of patriotic US citizen taxpayer monies. You’ve missed the problem. The US is importing and paying for more and the US receives in exports. Trade unbalance which caused the US deficit which will be fixed by correcting the trade unbalance. @Captain
@danielsnyder Ive heard that one before, well Im a Brit so less so than other European states but the point is while th ebig US corps are making money the US economy will not tank. A lot of that is because the P/E ratios are so high so spend is easy and its a vituous cycle. Th eproblem is as the US makes enemies and cuts off allies by price (tariffs) they will have ot go eslewherem and the big corps will lose market share. Th euS is still the biggest expoerter of oil etc etc it wont go bust, and the money thing is a bit artifical because the money finds its way back to the states one way or another. But when the corps crash and knock off far eastern firms take ther emarket share - because Trump has actually forced that to happen - the music will stop and neither Europe nor the US will find a seat to sit on. So yes and no, watch the big corps, they will fall first.
@ElwoodBlues No IM saying the more efficient producer has been China, will be India and is currently Vietnam, and what trump is doing with his traiffs is trying to fight that economic truth, and what Adam Smith said you had to do was exploit it instead. Now that means that everybody has to have a more equal propotion of the wealth, and the supe rich, and the rich nations, will not like that one bit, but that is what it means, and it was the way things were going.
Indeed not. The US is its own biggest market and when the US fully supplies itself is when patriotic US citizen taxpayers will thrive. Counties like your pipsqueak islands will import more US products. Oh and please take Harry and. Markle back. @Captain
@Captain And lets take Adam Smiths point even further because this is the only way things can work. What AS was saying was use the chepest labour for example - which is not going to be European due to welfare states and not going to be America because of the super rich, but the far east, latin America, Africa etc And that is what gloablisation was doing. Trump won poer because the US society is the most polarised and unequal society in the world. The problme is that in a world of specialoist there has to be a social tax and spend policy to protect the living standards of the poorest, and I realise that is massively Un- American, but "American" its built on the idea of infinite resouce giving infifinite opportunity for growth - which isnt possible - infact its opposite to the idea of a sustainable future. I believe equality of opportunity is the ideal and best for the collective whole - the best people doing the best jobs for the best money - Un Amnerican again - the rich spending their resources on making their own sons and daughters rich at the deteriment to others is a bad system. Yiou would and no doubt will rile against me for saying that but you know, you all recognise even thiough you don't wan to say ot that this will give the best outcime for the collective humanity. Likewise will keeping all th emoney the irh=ch tie up and hide away moving though society. It is the velocity of money - not the amount 0 that is the measure of ecomic growth and therefore material wealth creation. But non of you guys across the pond - not one of you - believes in a socialist society with equality of opportunity and redistribution of wealth. That is why the west will lose out. Im not sayin gthe other systems dont create oligarchs of course they do - but their systems are less imbalanced than ours. Right - now you cam all have a go at me for being a communist which I am not.
@swirlie I know I was thinking that but the abc doesn't really keep us informed - my guess is there may be some tit for tat tariffs but Canada must trade with the US the same as anyone else. You all have to hang around with the bullies gang if you can.
@swirlie In 2018, tRump negotiated the replacement of NAFTA with USMCA. It allows Canada to protect some domestic dairy operations; I don't know the details. But, whatever they are, they are the terms tRump agreed in 2018 to and signed into law in Jan 2020.
proclaims 'new dawn' for US workers https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-touts-nafta-replacement-deal-with-canada-and-mexico-proclaims-new-dawn-for-us-workers
Donald Trump Accidentally Insults Himself: ‘Who Would Ever Sign A Thing Like This?’ President Donald Trump is outraged that Americans are footing an unfair financial burden, citing a 2020 trade deal called the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement that he signed. https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-accidentally-insults-himself-142955248.html
..but Canada must trade with the US the same as anyone else.
Really? Who told you that?
Trading with the USA is definitely not where Canada is focusing it's future trade relations, I can assure you of that. Canada like every other country out here, takes note of what Trump spews, but no country in the world other than the USA, takes direction from Trump.
@swirlie Yes but every country must trade with them because they have so many market place virtual monoplies and Canada has no other land borders. Canada is more commited to their future than anyone.
@swirlie We all have to unless we chose a new economic and therefore political bed partner. trump knows he has us for th etime being an dhe's gong to milk it - but a third term - alrams should be sounding loud(ly) and clear(ly - they are adverbs) across Amreica and the world right now.
@Captain @danielsnyder What you dont think he means it - he always means it. Never raise a threat unless you can go through with it. Trump knows that - although I am now beating him 3-0 in the race to build walls...(around my garden beds - I started the same time he did and finished 3 years ago)
