I would take this seriously. CCP has played a zero-sum, parasitic trade game with USA for well over two decades. Trump is calling their bluff. CCP is thus pushed (in their own minds and by their own negative momentum) into Kill-Or-Be-Killed strategic territory. CCP leadership cannot survive domestic economic meltdown unless it takes the world down with it or creates a major light show to distract its people. It does appear that Trump’s tariffs have been designed to confront CCP, among others. The leaders of CCP and USA (and Russia) are trapped in KOBK options. ABN
President Donald J Trump announcing the end of the 80-year-old Marshall Plan (aka The European Recovery Program) of one-way tariffs against American imports has triggered a very predictable response from the European Union.
While saying the EU is prepared to enter negations toward a zero-tariff trade reciprocity, Comrade Ursula von der Leyen simultaneously announced that Brussels is prepared to launch countermeasures against The United States, in an effort to retain economic control and access to a U.S. consumer market they must exploit for their economic survival.
Speaking in very deliberate terms, the EU Komisar states the U.S. decision to demand reciprocity, and fairness will deliver “immense” and “dire consequences” for the New World Order and “global trading system.” von der Leyen proclaims that global citizens will be impacted with higher grocery bills, shortages of medication and increased costs for transportation.
The leader of the world’s largest bureaucracy stunningly proclaims President Trump’s tariffs will increase the “burdens of bureaucracy.” The one-sided benefits and “interests of the European Union” will be protected at all costs. WATCH:
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Regarding “countermeasures.” Again, we repeat the predicable response. Together with their unelected ally in Canada controlling the North American response, watch for the EU to target Big USA Tech companies and financial service sectors.
The goal of the EU will be to assemble a tariff countermeasure response that will deliver political pain, not economic consequences. That’s just how they roll. The EU will leverage disgruntled Wall Street, banking and Technocracy sectors in order to put political pressure on Donald Trump to back down.
Optically this is the worst possible type of pontificating EU spokesperson to generate internal American opposition. Frankly comrade Ursula, MAGA don’t give a damn. [Pinky Finger Salute]
In a week that saw French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen banned from running for office, the South Korean Constitutional Court’s ouster of President Yoon Suk Yeol from office on Friday has critics looking towards Beijing’s hand in efforts to remove the leader from power.
“Yoon’s foreign and security policies stand in stark contrast to the pro-China figures long supported and controlled by the [Chinese Communist Party (CCP)],” Anna Mahjar-Barducci, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) project director, told Fox News Digital. She explained that those policies “posed a threat to Beijing’s long-term strategy of cultivating a pro-China faction in South Korea,”
Mahjar-Barducci claimed the CCP has used “overt economic cooperation, political donations, covert benefit transfers and even illegal sexual bribery” to cultivate “certain South Korean political figures over time, aiming to undermine the U.S.-South Korea alliance, weaken South Korea’s strategic independence and expand its regional influence at the expense of the U.S.”
Never been a fan of Rubio, but if he keeps this up, does not stab Trump in the back and really believes 85% or more of what he is saying, he is presidential material. I am above all a pragmatist. If Rubio stands by his words and continues the pragmatic game in play today, I will support him in 2028, among other possibilities. Politics should be without emotion. It’s fundamentally based on action and, often, dark and hidden exigencies it is impossible for us to know; that’s the realism part of pragmatics. Even political leaders do not and can not know everything. We the people can generally figure out about 80% of what is going on, as has been demonstrated over the years by conspiracy theorists. Rubio has an unsavory past, imo, but if he can change his actions, we can change and support him. ABN
The United States needs Greenland, whatever the cost.
US Vice President J.D. Vance reiterated this in an interview on Thursday evening local time on the Newsmax magazine program ‘Rob Schmitt Tonight’.
J.D. Vance emphasized the importance of the United States gaining control of Greenland with the phrase “come hell or high water”, which speaks of the importance of being able to control the Arctic region for the sake of American security.
The Vice President began by defending Donald Trump’s original statement about using military force, if necessary, to turn Greenland into an American resort.
Of course, the media is attacking what the president said, but there is a lot of common sense in it. This matters for our security, it matters for our missile defense, and we will protect the interests of the United States, no matter what.
American Buddhist Net 