What is Trump doing to the world?
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Marco Rubio, who I never really thought was a great Senator, is doing a good job representing the USA at the NATO conference in Europe. Telling it like it is. Dose of reality as Europe & Canada have woefully UNDER paid into NATO and need to step up against the world threats. EU & Canada don't like hearing the truth, but they need to hear it. They need to understand it.
It is NOT the USA pulling out of NATO it is the USA saying that we cannot do this alone.
From the Daily Wire, follow the link for full article:
www.dailywire.com
It is NOT the USA pulling out of NATO it is the USA saying that we cannot do this alone.
From the Daily Wire, follow the link for full article:
Rubio Urges NATO Members To Increase Their Own Defense Spending To 5% Of GDP
Speaking at a NATO event in Brussels, Secretary of State Marco Rubio reassured NATO nations that the United States would not leave the alliance, but also warned that European nations would have to increase their own defense spending as a deterrent to outside forces. “We want NATO to be stronger...
Rubio Urges NATO Members To Increase Their Own Defense Spending To 5% Of GDP
"Hard power is still necessary as a deterrent."
By Hank Berrien
•Apr 3, 2025 DailyWire.com
Speaking at a NATO event in Brussels, Secretary of State Marco Rubio reassured NATO nations that the United States would not leave the alliance, but also warned that European nations would have to increase their own defense spending as a deterrent to outside forces.
“We want NATO to be stronger; we want NATO to be more visible, and the only way NATO can get stronger, more visible is if our partners, the nation states that comprise this important alliance, have more capability,” he said.
“I understand there’s domestic politics, after decades of building up vast social safety nets that maybe don’t want to take away from that and invest more in national security,” Rubio added. “But the events of the last few years … full-scale ground war in the heart of Europe as a reminder that hard power is still necessary as a deterrent. We do want to leave here with an understanding that we are on a pathway, a realistic pathway to every single one of the members committee, and fulfilling a promise to reach up to 5% of spending.”
Rubio stated the United States would also spend 5% of its GDP on defense as well.
“The majority of the 32 NATO members currently spend 2% of their nation’s GDP per previous NATO commitments, eight nations – Croatia, Portugal, Italy, Canada, Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovenia and Spain – have yet to meet their defense spending pledges,” . . . .
Trump levies reciprocal tariffs against nations.
The media panics.
Some nations panic.
Israel & Taiwan both respond to Trump by saying how about we just have ZERO tariffs and free trade.
More nations panic.
Canada says we are no longer friends.
Mexico actually celebrates because the US/Canada/Mexico trade pact remains and there are no tariffs on the goods covered by that trade pact.
So why did Canada react differently than Mexico? Because Canada has protectionist tariffs on specific categories of goods in addition to the trade pact. Mexico sees this as an opportunity to increase trade. Canada sees that their protectionist system will hurt their economy. Israel and Taiwan both view this as an opportunity, just like Mexico.
And this weekend what happened?
FULL STORY & VIDEO at the link ^^^
The media panics.
Some nations panic.
Israel & Taiwan both respond to Trump by saying how about we just have ZERO tariffs and free trade.
More nations panic.
Canada says we are no longer friends.
Mexico actually celebrates because the US/Canada/Mexico trade pact remains and there are no tariffs on the goods covered by that trade pact.
So why did Canada react differently than Mexico? Because Canada has protectionist tariffs on specific categories of goods in addition to the trade pact. Mexico sees this as an opportunity to increase trade. Canada sees that their protectionist system will hurt their economy. Israel and Taiwan both view this as an opportunity, just like Mexico.
And this weekend what happened?
FULL STORY & VIDEO at the link ^^^
President Trump's top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, told ABC's "This Week" what's going on with the new tariff strategy.
"More than 50 countries have reached out to the president to begin a negotiation," Hassett said. "But they're doing that because they understand that they bear a lot of the tariff."
"I don't think that you're going to see a big effect on the consumer in the U.S. because I do think that the reason why we have a persistent, long-run trade deficit these people have very inelastic supply. They've been dumping goods into the country in order to create jobs," he said.
Boom!
ZERO for ZERO . . . but my guess is Trump will say "not good enough" or something like that. Much of the problem with trade between the US and the EU is regulatory. So he will probably suggest they back down some of the regulations.
www.breitbart.com
ZERO for ZERO . . . but my guess is Trump will say "not good enough" or something like that. Much of the problem with trade between the US and the EU is regulatory. So he will probably suggest they back down some of the regulations.
EU Offers Trump 'Zero-for-Zero Tariffs' on Industrial Goods with U.S.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the bloc has offered a zero tariff trade deal on industrial goods with the United States.
www.breitbart.com
FrancSevin
Proudly Deplorable
And, the anti Trump prognosticators lose, ,,,,;AGAIN!
He's driving the left over the edge.
I see reels every single time I log in Facebook.
Gays, freaks, etc.. posting their anti-Trump crap, usually from behind the wheel while sitting in their cars, bawling, sobbing and not making any sense.
I must say, it's great entertainment lol
I see reels every single time I log in Facebook.
Gays, freaks, etc.. posting their anti-Trump crap, usually from behind the wheel while sitting in their cars, bawling, sobbing and not making any sense.
I must say, it's great entertainment lol
So we had LIBERATION day.
The world freaked out.
A bunch of nations panicked about the tariffs. A bunch, 70+ by my count, came to Trump asking to negotiate. China chose a different path and retaliated with their own tariffs.
So today Trump announced that he is pausing the big tariffs for 90 days, but left on a 10% base tariff for all the nations EXCEPT China, China gets big tariffs!
And nobody complained about the 10% that remained. Nobody. So he got a 10% tariff, which brings in some income.
And he also got the entire world to align against China.
Do you think his plan all along was to get the world to unite against China? I believe that was probably his plan.
Honestly, THE ART OF THE DEAL should be required reading (2 times) for every diplomat and world leader.
This was predictable.
The world freaked out.
A bunch of nations panicked about the tariffs. A bunch, 70+ by my count, came to Trump asking to negotiate. China chose a different path and retaliated with their own tariffs.
So today Trump announced that he is pausing the big tariffs for 90 days, but left on a 10% base tariff for all the nations EXCEPT China, China gets big tariffs!
And nobody complained about the 10% that remained. Nobody. So he got a 10% tariff, which brings in some income.
And he also got the entire world to align against China.
Do you think his plan all along was to get the world to unite against China? I believe that was probably his plan.
Honestly, THE ART OF THE DEAL should be required reading (2 times) for every diplomat and world leader.
This was predictable.
And after crying and screaming that the stock market went down.
The Democrats today are screaming and crying that the market recovered.
And shifty Adam Schiff want to open an investigation on insider traders??? But Trump "tweeted" on Truth Social several hours before he announced that he was suspending the tariffs, that this is the time to BUY. Who wants to bet that professional stock traders will now be "following" President Trump on social media???
The Democrats today are screaming and crying that the market recovered.
And shifty Adam Schiff want to open an investigation on insider traders??? But Trump "tweeted" on Truth Social several hours before he announced that he was suspending the tariffs, that this is the time to BUY. Who wants to bet that professional stock traders will now be "following" President Trump on social media???
"Reorienting international trading policy" and also providing national security for the United States.
We can't build our own ships. Most ships are made in China. How can we have a navy without shipbuilding?
We can't make most of our prescription drugs. Antibiotics are not made here. Many generic class drugs not made here. Many critical drugs and not made here. We also don't make many of our medical machines, supplies, masks, tubes, etc.
We have deindustrialize the nation, hollowed out the middle class of the society, and shifted wealth to the upper 1% leaving the middle class slouching toward the bottom. Our energy production can't support a re-industrialization of the economy, so the two factors are inter-twined and crumbling (often due to self-imposed regulation. New technologies like AI will require even more power but energy production is falling behind our basic needs and combine the re-industrialization policy to on-shore more production, then add that to demand for power from AI campuses, and you can see that we have inter-twined industries.
Consequently we need to have access to our OWN resources from timber and coal, but also to nickel, copper, uranium, lithium, silver and more base materials like iron ore.
We also need to roll back our regulations and increase permitting speed, cutting through red tape.
Trump is DOING ALL OF THIS at the same time.
If successful, it will strengthen our core nation by making us less dependent upon foreign powers. And our allies will also be stronger.
We can't build our own ships. Most ships are made in China. How can we have a navy without shipbuilding?
We can't make most of our prescription drugs. Antibiotics are not made here. Many generic class drugs not made here. Many critical drugs and not made here. We also don't make many of our medical machines, supplies, masks, tubes, etc.
We have deindustrialize the nation, hollowed out the middle class of the society, and shifted wealth to the upper 1% leaving the middle class slouching toward the bottom. Our energy production can't support a re-industrialization of the economy, so the two factors are inter-twined and crumbling (often due to self-imposed regulation. New technologies like AI will require even more power but energy production is falling behind our basic needs and combine the re-industrialization policy to on-shore more production, then add that to demand for power from AI campuses, and you can see that we have inter-twined industries.
Consequently we need to have access to our OWN resources from timber and coal, but also to nickel, copper, uranium, lithium, silver and more base materials like iron ore.
We also need to roll back our regulations and increase permitting speed, cutting through red tape.
Trump is DOING ALL OF THIS at the same time.
If successful, it will strengthen our core nation by making us less dependent upon foreign powers. And our allies will also be stronger.
Patriot
Well-known member
I agree, but would just add on the energy front that in addition to maximizing our domestic resources, we also need to build more, many more, nuclear power plants. Nuclear power is the future of energy production.