The whole world is just jumping through hoops and biding their time until Emperor Moneyman is gone.
Perhaps, but if everyone is correct and he’s a symptom of much bigger issues, then holding out might be a huge waste of time.
Meh, I used to say the same. But keep in mind, Trump is a cult leader, no one can fill his shoes. One commenter on here speculated that the MAGA backlash about the Epstein files was giving some supporters a valid excuse to jump ship.
In any case, no one is stepping into Trump’s shoes. Can you imagine someone like Vance commanding the type of blind obedience Trump gets?
2 issues with that:
1). Trump is the figurehead, but not the one actually designing the agenda. That’s the Republican cabal that is effectively dismantling the US federal government and setting the scene for an authoritarian government. They don’t need it to be a cult anymore. They have grabbed on to enough power. The Epstein list debacle shows that Trump voters (over half of the electoral race) are now malleable enough to be spun any narrative. When Trump dies, there is a replacement in line. I don’t know who it is, but the major investment in fascist propaganda here in the US shows that the party as a whole is getting ready to install itself for the long term. Blind obedience is not to Trump, he’s just the symbol. The obedience is to a right wing Christo-nationalism that the symbol represents.
2). Even if the Democrats win, they tend to stay the course with previous Republican administration’s policies. Obama kept the war in Iraq and Afghanistan for his entire 8 years and even expanded on the Patriot Act. Biden maintained a lot of Trump’s policies in place as well, especially regarding immigration and environmental regulation. Democrats try to “scalp” Republican voters from the GOP to win elections, and with the majority of Republican voters getting more entrenched into Trumpism, The Democrat party getting into power is not a guarantee of reversion to “normal”.
What happens when the inevitable failure is realised? Perhaps the EU is hoping for the same outcome as China did with the first trade war with Trump in 2019.
Can somebody brief me what happened in 2019, and what was the deal with China?
It’s mentioned earlier in the article. China promised/agreed 200$ bn, but never came close, and didn’t reach import levels from before the trade war.
Got it. But China did it one year before the end of the term, much smarter…
Some more points are delusional imho. I raised in another thread on this topic that the EU-US deal includes $600bn of EU investments in the US. Trump made a similar deal with Japan. But the point is that neither Japan nor the EU will invest, but rather private companies there are expected to do so. It is to be seen whether they really do it. They can decide to invest or not. There is either another agenda I don’t see or the clause is just ink on paper.
I’m sure some company will build an empty frame somewhere in Wyoming, promising that it’ll be some kind of megafactory, and it’ll just sit there, full of empty promises, just like similar “investments”.
Why “pledge”? Call it memorandum. At least Ukrainians might chuckle a bit…
It’s a “pledge”, so basically totally meaningless.
Shhh… don’t make the Trump administration realize how worthless the investment or energy deal is. Meanwhile, me and pretty much all friends and family around me already boycott products from the US.
It’s only a delusion if they believe it.
