- 13 Jul 2018 07:32
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The US has been running a trade deficit with these countries. They cannot afford to tell the US to fuck off. That's just the point. Now, they may have presumed that Trump would be no different from Obama, Bush, Clinton, et. al. China has found out that this is not the case. If Germany starts finding that out, they will be in trouble as I've already elucidated given that they export 50% of their nation's GDP.
If Trump doesn't ask questions, you characterize him as a dullard devoid of curiosity. If he asks questions, you presume he's stupid. Either way he ends up stupid in your book, which doesn't make Trump stupid but rather makes you pathological.
Trump believes in bi-lateral rather than multilateral agreements. So it's obvious that he's going to undermine a multilateral system if he can.
Undermining a relationship between Germany and Russia does not serve Russia's interest. As I have already explained, I'm not afraid of Russia. It has a GDP the size of Germany's annual exports.
The damage to whom or what?
:/ Weird. Nixon opened up diplomatic relations with China. It wasn't the other way around. Xi Jinping isn't bribing Trump. In fact, Trump has imposed billions of dollars of tariffs on China.
jimjam wrote:Be real! I suspect it means a lot if the rest of the world tells you to go fuck yourself and you experience economic degradation.
The US has been running a trade deficit with these countries. They cannot afford to tell the US to fuck off. That's just the point. Now, they may have presumed that Trump would be no different from Obama, Bush, Clinton, et. al. China has found out that this is not the case. If Germany starts finding that out, they will be in trouble as I've already elucidated given that they export 50% of their nation's GDP.
jimjam wrote:Bill Gates says that Donald Trump asked him not once, but twice, what the difference between HIV and HPV is.
If Trump doesn't ask questions, you characterize him as a dullard devoid of curiosity. If he asks questions, you presume he's stupid. Either way he ends up stupid in your book, which doesn't make Trump stupid but rather makes you pathological.
jimjam wrote:And what Trump is trying to do is undermine that system, making bullying great again.
Trump believes in bi-lateral rather than multilateral agreements. So it's obvious that he's going to undermine a multilateral system if he can.
jimjam wrote:What’s his motivation? Part of the answer is that anything that weakens the Western alliance helps Vladimir Putin; if Trump isn’t literally a Russian agent, he certainly behaves like one on every possible occasion
Undermining a relationship between Germany and Russia does not serve Russia's interest. As I have already explained, I'm not afraid of Russia. It has a GDP the size of Germany's annual exports.
jimjam wrote:Trump won’t take yes for an answer. He doesn’t want negotiations with our allies and trading partners to succeed; he wants them to fail. And by the time everyone realizes this, the damage may be irreversible.
The damage to whom or what?
Beren wrote:However, in the good old days no one could have imagined Mao bribing Nixon into summiting with Kim Il-sung, praising him and giving him concessions for nothing.
:/ Weird. Nixon opened up diplomatic relations with China. It wasn't the other way around. Xi Jinping isn't bribing Trump. In fact, Trump has imposed billions of dollars of tariffs on China.
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