Which part of the “do nothing, win” meme do you not understand?
China is literally going to do nothing, and win.
Remember, China is playing the long game that is likely beyond your comprehension.
Everyone here has been saying it for the past few years.
This is what makes Trump so dangerous.
With Biden, there was a consistency in the foreign policy. Even Putin admitted that during the interview with Tucker Carlson.
With Trump, we can go from “I’m gonna stop the war within 24 hours” to “let’s nuke Tehran” in a single day. And this unpredictability further exacerbates instability in the world.
Not trying to pull a “told you so”, this is not the time and place, but I did warn of exactly this happening during the election (that Trump is going to end up 10 times worse than Biden/Harris) when the entire site gave me shit and accused me of “voting for Harris means supporting fascist genocide” as if strategic voting isn’t a thing.
My reading is that the neocons already gained a firm control over the Trump administration. Elon Musk and the other MAGA clowns were allowed to have their fun for a bit, until they fumbled, and now the “adults in the room” are back in charge.
Technology acquisition (stealing technology like they accuse China of doing lol), reshaping of the global supply chain by killing off businesses and buying them out, pressure foreign countries into providing a favorable deal to the US, etc.
The US does not have the capacity to re-industrialize! It simply cannot compete with China or even with Europe. This is their only play, and if they do it right, they can maybe even force the Europeans to purchase American goods to offset some of the trade deficit and Trump gets to announce a win for his MAGA base.
Chinese cars and factories flooding EU market, and blows up protectionist tariff system Substack
In the US, the tariff schedules on Chinese EV's were 100%. In Europe, the tariff rates varied, from 17% to 38%.
The EU tariffs, it was believed, were too high for Chinese companies to profitably sell cars in the EU markets, and analysts expected Chinese brands to pivot to more friendly countries.
But China's carmakers doubled down in Europe instead, and exported record volumes of hybrid vehicles, which were exempted from the tariff systems. They also broke ground on major factory projects, which will come online beginning next year. At that time, all that production will be tariff-exempt.
Regulators in Europe face two major problems: they need mass-market adoption of new-energy vehicles if they hope to meet their strict emissions standards, and it is only Chinese cars that build at price points that will attract millions of new buyers.
But they will do so at the expense of European and American and other Asian automakers, who cannot compete with Chinese brands on price.
Good read. This is what I have been saying all along: the US is unleashing the Chinese industrial capacity to start a mercantilist warfare to kill off European industries. Expect to see US finance capital harvesting Europe like they did the USSR.
This is because exports have to go somewhere if a portion of demand is suddenly curbed, and all the exporters now find themselves embroiled in a dog-eat-dog competition to lower their costs to capture an ever thinning slice of the market.
The only way out of this is for China to expand its consumer base and create an alternative source of demand, otherwise most exporters will get killed simply for not being able to compete with Chinese products in both quality and price.
It’s going to turn out that someone close to Trump made a bet on the stock market and needs the line to go one way or the other.
The world’s just a playground for the rich elites who are betting on their favorite scenarios and see who gets to make the most money out of it. What’s a few million people dying mean to them anyway?
Trump rebuffs Putin’s offer to help mediate Israel-Iran conflict
The US president urged his Russian counterpart to resolve Russia’s war in Ukraine before stepping in elsewhere.
“He actually offered to help mediate, I said, ‘do me a favour, mediate your own. Let’s mediate Russia first, OK?'” Trump told reporters at the White House.
Sad breakup between the two. It also signals that war is now imminent.
The people just aren’t up for it. And when you don’t have the people behind you, you’ll get couped if not straight up murdered trying to do something like that.
It’s easy to get a warped view from the comforts of Western internet left that fetishizes the DPRK and Cuba, but let me tell you that very very few people even in poor Global South countries want to live like that. They’d rather believe that working hard to sell cheap goods to foreigners can at least earn them some treats in return, than to completely upend their entire lives and being confined to material poverty like in Cuba or the DPRK. You need people to be ideologically committed to your program and willing to endure the economic hardships that come with it.
This is why people took the risk to cross borders illegally because they believe that the such risks and the hardships that accompanied the arduous journey are worth more than staying where they are with little hope to offer in economic and material terms.
People there just don’t like fun I guess lol. To be clear, there are night clubs and stuff but the streets are already quiet around 9-10pm. Nightlife is just not their vibe.
In places like Wuhan, you can easily hang out at hotpot shops that open until 7am lol.
Putin confirms Russia ready to mediate Middle East conflict — Kremlin TASS
MOSCOW, June 18. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed Russia's readiness to mediate a dialogue between Iran and Israel in a phone call with President of the United Arab Emirates Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Kremlin said.
"Vladimir Putin confirmed Russia's readiness to provide mediation assistance in promoting dialogue between the parties to the conflict, informing about contacts with a number of foreign leaders in this regard," it said in a statement.
Ryabkov reported on Russia's contacts with the United States on the conflict in the Middle East. Interfax
Moscow. June 18. INTERFAX.RU - Moscow is in contact with Washington on the topic of the Iran-Israeli conflict, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov told Interfax.
"Yes, we are in contact," Ryabkov said when asked whether Russia is in contact with the United States on the conflict in the Middle East.
Maybe there is still a slim chance of preventing a disaster from happening.
Look there is no point getting angry about this at this moment. We literally have Trump on the brink of pulling the trigger. The nightmare scenario that has haunted me since before the election is already happening.