Yay for those "Trade wars are good, and easy to win", or so you think if you haven't a clue how tariffs work.
https://www.investors.com/news/economy/what-is-a-tariff/
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-trade-war-us-china-tariffs-lost-no-meaning-2019-11
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-says-trade-war-could-drag-on-stokes-france-spat-11575374711
I recall people having to explain to him a few times how tariffs hurt consumers, yet Trump keeps saying his administration is making billions on the tariffs, but a large chunk of that is coming from American consumers who get the cost of higher-priced goods passed to them from the companies.
Yes..............you "recall how tariffs hurt consumers"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But neglect to consider how BEING UNEMPLOYED can also be bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And you neglect to consider that Red China is using the revenue from selling crap to the West.........................
to build up its own military............................................
and to arm its friends and allies.........................................
all of whom happen to HATE THE WEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trade war is bad..........................................
REAL WAR IS WORSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an article illustrating the deteriorating world security system!! With some comments of my own in brackets):
In Tense Exchange, Trump and Macron Put Forth Dueling Visions for NATO
Katie Rogers and Annie Karni - from The New York Times
Published December 3, 2019
LONDON — A once-cordial relationship between President Trump and President Emmanuel Macron of France devolved in a dramatic fashion Tuesday, as the two leaders publicly sparred over their approach to containing the threat of terrorism and a shared vision for the future of NATO, a 70-year-old alliance facing existential threats on multiple fronts.
(Macron is under MAJOR PRESSURE to put more cash into social spending!! The French civil service union HOGS are in the same boat as their Cdn counterparts and THEY DEMAND MORE GRAVY in exchange for their votes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(The Yellow Vest Movement forced the French govt to back away from new carbon tax SCAM/Gravy grabbing price increases last year - and now the cash strapped govt is making changes to HOG pensions - but also cutting pensions to ordinary people as well and this has triggered a new round of public demonstrations!! And of course France HAS HIT THE DEBT WALL and thus cannot simply BORROW their way out of the problem - and this credit problem is an unpleasant fact of life that is beginning to haunt Cdn LIE-berals as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
In a lengthy appearance before reporters, the president met a cool reception from Mr. Macron, who earlier in the day Mr. Trump derided as “very insulting” for his recent remarks on the “brain death” of the alliance. When asked to address his earlier comments on the French leader, Mr. Trump, a leader averse to face-to-face confrontation, initially demurred, but Mr. Macron was direct.
(We are watching a replay of the 1920`s and 1930`s in which Fascist govts slowly and steadily built up their military forces while western govts sat watching in paralysed horror!! In this case it is Russia. China and Iran that mobilizing for an eventual expected showdown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Even worse is the literal invasion of western society by radical Muslims and by poverty stricken and ill-educated people from third world countries who too often represent a LONG TERM security risk - as multiple terror attacks in Europe and United States and even several attacks in Canada have proven!! In addition these unskilled people represent a very difficult to assimilate social underclass that will require LONG TERM govt aid to survive here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(And given the number of gang bangers killing each other on our streets - who are children of Pierre Trudeau selected immigrants - we see how POORLY LIE-beral candidates usually integrate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(This combination of moral rot and fiscal bankruptcy from within and overt military force on the international stage should be a GREAT WORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
“My statement created some reactions,” Mr. Macron said. “I do stand by it.”
What followed was an extended, terse back-and-forth over trade, immigration, and Mr. Trump’s relationship with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.
(Turkey has long struggled with its place in the world as it is a roughly secular Muslim nation with multiple ties to Europe!! Unfortunately Erdogan is an aspiring dictator and apparently believes he will do better if he is more aligned with Putin and moves away from the West!! Turkey has a long history of sending its young people to work in the west but Turks are now caught up in the general Muslim backlash due to terror attacks and allegations re Muslim rapists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(European LIE-berals have done a VERY POOR JOB of addressing legitimate citizen fears of Muslim crime and violence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Mr. Trump’s interactions with the Turkish president are also sure to be closely watched. Mr. Erdogan, who has already upset NATO allies by purchasing a sophisticated Russian antiaircraft missile system, the S-400, is now threatening to oppose NATO’s plans to update the defense of Poland and the Baltic countries if the alliance does not join him in labeling some Kurdish groups as terrorists.
(As I have speculated before - one has to ask if many problems would be ended simply by giving the Kurds the homeland they have fought for so hard?? North- western Iraq is a “semi autonomous zone” under Kurdish govt anyway -so why not make it fully independent -and why not tack on some Syrian territory as well - since Kurds also live in Syria and who cares if dictator Assad does not like that?????????)
(And since Kurdish and Yankee troops already hold those territories - surely there is no real room for Putin or others to interfere???????????????)
”Who is the enemy today?” Mr. Macron asked. “And let’s be clear and work together on that.”
(Yes- Muslims are the terrorist enemy of the west - but they can be handled by REJECTING LIE-beral open border multi cult CRAP - and by recognizing that there are factions within the Muslim community we can work with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(But the LARGER ENEMY is formed by the state players - Russia, Iran and China! It is they who are engaged in the arms race that Trump is warning against!! And it looks dangerously foolish of people like Macron to assume that Yankees will always be there to pick up the pieces if things go SOUR!! Yankees have their own troubles to tend to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The meeting continued to devolve as the two discussed the containment of ISIS fighters in Syria. Hunched forward, Mr. Trump tried to jokingly offer captive fighters to the French.
“Would you like some nice ISIS fighters?” Mr. Trump said.
“Let’s be serious,” a stone-faced Mr. Macron replied. Mr. Macron said that he and Mr. Trump “don’t have the same definition of terrorism around the table.”
“When I look at Turkey, they are fighting against those who fight with us,” he added, referring to Kurdish fighters.
(True enough- Kurds are CURRENTLY ALIGNED with the West - but that CAN CHANGE -just as easily as Turkish loyalty!! And the issue of what to do with Isis fighters and their odious families is a LONG TERM PROBLEM!! Kurds are holding a pile of “western citizens” - also known as TRAITORS - who travelled to join Isis and their mere existence underscores the FAILURES of LIE-beral immigration policy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(LI-berals have opened our borders to a pack of people with POISONED VALUES hostile to the west - these people came here FOR MONEY - and NOT because they have any respect for our values!! Some of them went to join ISIS to torture and maim and kill and to own sex slaves who were from “infidel” tribes that radical Muslims believe may be abused on a whim!! Radical Muslims view CANADIANS in the same fashion they view Yazidi sex slaves - AS INFERIOR and not entitled to the protection or consideration of a decent kindly GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The contentious tone was baked into the day’s proceedings. Hours earlier, in a meeting with Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary general of NATO, Mr. Trump said President Emmanuel Macron of France had been “very insulting” to the alliance.
Mr. Macron had suggested that Europe could no longer assume unwavering support from the United States. “I think nobody needs it more than France,” Mr. Trump said of the alliance, “and that’s why I think when France makes a statement like they made about NATO, that’s a very dangerous statement for them to make.”
(Trump DOES MAKE a good point - why should Yankee tax payers be bankrupted to pay for European defence?? Bankrupt European govts supply levels of health care and pensions to their citizens that would make the average Yankee green with envy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(And why should Yankees die to defend Europeans who are so often lackadaisical about their own military preparedness?? And the same questions apply to Canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Mr. Trump’s visit comes as leaders across Europe struggle to balance the shared goal of combating the rising influence of global adversaries — China will be a focus — and containing other unpredictable members, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.
On Tuesday, Mr. Trump said that he was considering delaying reaching a deal in his protracted and economically damaging trade war with China until after the 2020 election.
“In some ways I like the idea of waiting until after the election for the China deal,” Mr. Trump said, adding that he had “no deadline” for reaching an accord.
(China very much wants a return to the fiscal status quo so they can resume BUYING WEAPONS and modernizing their military to enhance their threat potential!! Chinese annexation of disputed islands in the South China Sea and ongoing harassment of ships in international waters indicate clearly the Chinese political mind set!! Chinese hostility is so strong that it was likely only the threat of an expanded trade war that enabled Hong Kong protestors to avoid being MASSACRED by Beijing Butchers!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Mr. Trump’s defense of NATO against Mr. Macron’s comments was something of a role reversal for the two leaders. In the past, Mr. Trump has been so disruptive at NATO meetings that he triggered an emergency session. He has accused other member countries of shortchanging the United States on military spending, and he has questioned whether the alliance still served a purpose.
(As we KNOW - one of the terms on which NATO was formed - was an agreement to spend 2% of GDP on military preparedness and most countries are FAILING that - with Canada being the stellar military cheapskate under LIE-beral govt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(The UGLY REALITY is that Our idiot Boy and his loser LIE-berals intend to stick Washington FOR ALL our defence and security needs!! LIE-berals are happy that FBI agents are protecting us from Muslim terrorists and LIE-berals seriously expect that if North Korea fires missiles at North America - that Yankees will deal with that as well - and if military action is required to cut off Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and destroying the world then Yankees can tend to THAT AS WELL - while at the same time Our idiot Boy dances around the issue of sending Huawei chief Meng to Washington for trial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(LIE-berals have decided that Yankees should solve all the problems of the world - AT YANKEE EXPENSE - and TO OUR SATISFACTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)