Showing posts with label trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trade. Show all posts

03 September 2025

Trump Continues Biden-Graham Approach to Global Trade Isolation via the Ukraine War

 When the leaders of China, Russia, India and 17 other nations met in Beijing recently to discuss a new world order with themselves as the core alternative to the U.S. led world order that has prevailed during the post World War Two era, it was prompted as a response to sanctions President Trump has placed upon nations helping Russia break sanctions from the west. Sanctions to redress compiled U.S. trade imbalance and stimulate domestic American production were a synthetic combination of basic trade realignment and sanctions created on Russia and its numerous allies for asserting historical rights in Ukraine militarily.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/02/xi-china-sco-military-parade-russia-putin-kim-jong-un-north-korea/

President Trump failed to reverse the Biden-Lindsay Graham approach to complete support for West Ukraine and war on Russian Eastern Ukraine and that policy is predictably bearing fruit. In the history of the world and the United States following the second world war the emerging nations of the world have long aspired to rise to a standard of living equal to the west, while American led western business sought global markets to invest in. After the end of the Cold War a new world of markets for sales and production arose with the west investing in emerging economies heavily.

Russia for a time received much U.S. and western investment and was on track to become a full member of the western led global economy even while India and China were developing to such an advanced stage as to aspire to be rivals for world leadership in economics. Russia China and India developed or redeveloped nuclear military capabilities, and when Russia invaded Eastern Ukraine in response to the west reneging on promises not to expand N.A.T.O. apparently in an effort to created economic and military hegemony over Russia- possibly with the idea that Ukraine could be a lever not only for military purposes, but to help with continuing domination of the world economy by militarily degrading Russia and intimidating China into compliance with Western trade criteria forced upon it, a crucible was made that brought BRIC nations to support Russia and finally seek economic independence from the West.

The maladroit U.S. leadership in regard to the Ukraine war that followed the Clinton administration’s carpet bagging approach to taking all of Ukraine for the west and not sharing it with its historical owner-Russia prompted the military reconquista effort by Russia and aggressively promoted the unification of BRIC nations, North Korea and Iran and many others in a compact both formal and informal to stand against the power of the west. Compelling a major world political and economic schism in order to try to assert Western hegemony over the Ukraine and the globe was a stupid policy approach. With cooperation with Russia and China instead of belligerency the United States and Europe would have enjoyed decades of prosperity and stability. As it stands the West faces major economic challenges; the U.S. has vast left and right wing generated public debt and a global trading production and competition with the younger, more populous and very hard working, intelligent Eastern and BRIC nations as adversaries rather than partners. Even as that occurs the Trump administration has taken up the Biden-Graham militarism policy of supplying weapons to Ukraine in order to continue the conflict in Ukraine.

Continuing support for the Ukraine war will continue to stimulate the East and BRICs to build an economic house of self-reliance apart from the west. And of course with the vast scale of the India and China production and trade markets it is inevitable that the west will continue to defect to trade with the Eat and BRICs and not cohere within sanctions on Eastern allied nations in trade. 

President Trump’s betrayal of his own campaign promises to swiftly end the Ukraine war was his own worst betrayal of his own policies that might have rectified global trade to a natural free flowing status normalizing relations with Russia without forcing Russia Eastward in very tight new economic, military and trade agreements. A future U.S. president will need to try to rectify the failed Trump isolationist policies, yet in the interim there may be additional economic disadvantages that compile and present new additional challenges to repair.

26 July 2025

Make Canada a Tax Free, Free Work and Property Exchange Partner

 President Trump should designate Canada a tax-free trade zone with reciprocal policy BT Canada. As our closest neighbor along with Mexico the advantages gained by a close relationship are more than revenue increased tariffs. Canadian and American citizens should be free to work without visas or permits in each other's nation as well. A closer integration toward normalcy would be an upgrade over present policies,

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dgdwl609xo

Canadians should be free to buy U.S. properties, and Americans free to buy real estate and business in Canada. This is a more practical measure to create direct investment than a strong border defended by drones shaped like California Condors to patrol the border with ubiquitous  Fruitfarm robot sentries version 4.9- the ones with teeth like sharks.

https://suno.com/s/VPbZXmOlPk0HwYnv

09 April 2025

Ukraine is Source of Evil and Division for the West

 Western Europe hasn’t any vital interests in Ukraine. Their false belief they have a security need to stop Russia at the 1991 boundary or Russia will invade all the way to the English Channel is entirely delusional. Fundamentally European leaders are convincing themselves Russia is a threat to the west in order to sublimate their attempt to bully Russia into relinquishing its historical right to some if not all of Ukraine. European leaders want to swell the European Union and to make N.A.T.O. into their personal military tool.

European leaders probably believe that tactically they can defeat Russia in a war of attrition. They also know that Russia won’t attack N.A.T.O. countries supplying Ukraine with military support because that would obligate the U.S.A. as a N.A.T.O. member to get involved to defend them and that is the short route to nuclear war. the duplicity is another reason why Western Europe is not actually facing a Russian invasion threat- who wants nuclear war even in Russia?

Europe is the primary power block protracting the Ukraine War presently. That wrong choice will damage the European economy as it has that of the United States; the conflict is one more problem exacerbating global trade issues and warping the obsolete criterion of neo-liberalism Europe flourished with.

Someone in Ukraine was exchanging emails with the last attempted assassin of President Trump at a golf course in Florida. The suspect asked for a rocket propelled grenade and to have it delivered to the U.S.A. Ukraine is a nexus of problems for the world- a wrench in the economic works of the United States, Europe and even China and Japan. Ending the war directly and making permanent new boundaries more or less, approximately with East Ukraine beyond the Dnpro Russian and West Ukraine a state without N.A.T.O. membership, although individual European states could still sign treaties with West Ukraine is in the economic and existential interests of Europe and the United States.

American Democrats have chosen a bizarre allegiance to Ukraine in recent years that is not well founded. Europeans should not take that fact blow smoke in their eyes through which they see a vast left-wing diamond of wealth in Ukraine within their grasp. It would profitable to all and save many live if the war were wrapped up and filed in history as a waste of life and good sense directly.

26 March 2025

Pres Trump Gets Phase 1 of Containing the Ukraine Conflict Signed

President Trump has accomplished getting Ukraine and Russia to agree to terms that reduce the scale of the war somewhat. It is called a partial cease fire. That is comparable to a partial silence; an oxymoron yet meaningful in comparison to a reduction of noise level from a higher level.

Ukraine and Russia agree to keep their ships in neutral corners east and west of the Black Sea although Russia will have access to the Mediterranean via the middle and southern parts of that body of water through Turkey. Russia needs merchant ship access to the world to trade food commodities since the U.S.A. is lifting several sanctions on Russian agriculture and food related trade. Ukraine agreed not to use ships to bring weapons to Odessa and the south shore of Ukraine.

Each side won't attack energy facilities for thirty days, although since Russia began its cease fire on Ukraine energy sites a few days earlier the 30 days for each art occur on a slightly different schedule/

This is all good news. Maybe hungry Africans will get some food relief and American farmers may have better export markets indirectly lowering the cost of bread in the U.S.A. if farmers won't under-plant worried about poor export markets for surplus grain (a theory of mine).

https://suno.com/song/376fb6f0-d4c0-4011-ab97-b194e982e9e5?sh=BbnVld1rke5ws2ie

19 March 2025

Make America Competitive Again with High Speed Rail Coverage of Western Hemisphere

 China's Belt and Road initiative is developing rail service all over Central Asia among other developments in order to provide direct access routes for trade from Iran to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia, Holland and many, many more locations. China's economy will have raw materials including oil that can travel by land rather than by sea. The U.S.A. has no comparable rail network linking Alaska, Canada and South America directly with high speed rail for passengers and freight.

The Chinese economy already is the largest in the world and has the most international trade. To make America competitive in the future, much less great, the entire Western Hemisphere continental land masses need to be brought into a unified high speed rail transportation system, possibly using electro-magnetic powered lines above and below ground (for instance tunneling under the Panama canal).

Presently the United States cannot get even a basic high speed rail line built between Los Angeles and California. President Trump has cut back funding of fast land transportation ventures supported by government; failing to unify North and South America in a very fast high speed land rail system probably will harm the U.S. economy down the road. If water is the best way between several regions of North and South America then it is just as practical to send trade to Europe and China by water.

Rambo could drive a burning arrow through a bullet hole through and through his gut to cauterize it without suffering; he enjoyed being tough. Others emulate that (until it hurts). As a sign in an employers place read; "The beatings will stop when morale improves".

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