The US/China Syndrome continues to be a focus of the West. Decoupling from China is like quitting your job in a down market without having secured a new job. The US continues to play good cop-bad cop as though China is completely void of comprehension. The reason the US cannot decouple is simply built in TRADE: Imports: electronics, machinery, Plastics and chemicals. What are America’s major exports? Petroleum, cars, circuits and farm commodities.
Food and Gas. The same source crisis of US inflation. The US exports cattle, calves, dairy/milk, chickens, eggs, wheat, hay, etc… Mexico, China and Canada have become the major force of US exports and imports – all representing a negative trade balance. This continued trade imbalance is a source cause for stagflation. It also reflects Americas inability to manufacture competitively which creates unemployment.
This inability to compete weakens the economy internally. Exporting creates shortages at home. It is a cycle of currency. Add to the trade failure – sanctions, and you have a perfect storm. A White Squall. Sailing teaches you many life lessons: you can’t run from the wind, you can’t beat into the squall, never underestimate the power of the wind, and always over anticipate. As we always said growing up – Mother Nature always wins.
I taught all my boys to sail and we watched White Squall together. Life lessons to apply to running a country.
Unfortunately, our country is run by lawyers. Lawyer Psyche: They are right even when they are wrong. Always argue. Infinitely egocentric. Controlling. Attack mode is on 24/7. There is no right and wrong there is only winning. These are the personality traits of the people running America into the ground. They don’t know how to sail.
There are 30,000 statutes and 75,000 pages of IRS code. Bills presented to Congress are rarely read before a vote because they tend to defy the word length of comprehension. Summaries are thus required leaving the actual interpretation of the Bill up for grabs in a court wherein not even the judge has time or wherewithal to read what he will rule on.
That’s what lawyers do.
America is obsessed with China. A love/hate relationship wherein the Deep State admires the communist context and the ability to churn out manufacturing, while hating China’s rise to power. Art of War, “Keep your enemies closer’, would seem to prevail. But what exactly makes China an enemy?
“Beijing has refused to reform its economic model and to reduce global trade imbalances.” ~ Hinrich Foundation. Translation: China didn’t submit to the rule of order of the Deep State Cartel. Power and rivalry – as in behavioral psychosis is at play. And the purpose is simply a grandeur obsession. To FEEL superior. A classic point within the Jewish Kabbalah. The problem arises when the feeling of superiority doesn’t match the actual intellect or knowledge quotient. Which is why the Jewish Cartel had to create Biblical reference to support their allegation. Retranslating the Bible. Using the Bible as a Tool despite the vast majority of Jews being secular Ashkenazi.
Congress uses their appointment as a tool to create superiority even when their appointment was fraudulently acquired. That tool is then applied to relations across the globe. Bush, in all his ignorance, declared that the US needed a ‘Common Enemy’ to unite after 9-11. United via enemies. That enemy concept is why America inducts coups, sanctions, punishment, assassinations, collateral damage and destruction. ALL forms of Chaos.
But this represents the psyche of the American Government. A trajectory of mediocrity within an ego of chaos.
Israel’s psychosis of superiority is on full Display! It is manifested not in eliminating Hamas, but in the “joy” they receive in murdering an entire ethnicity. They find JOY in creating death, torture, and pain. Today, Israel celebrates as the pagers sold to Lebanon were infected with a remote bomb device that has so far caused nearly 3000 casualties. Netanyahu is joyful.
>>>>>>Unfortunately, our country is run by lawyers.<<<<<<
Our country is being run >>>>>>into the ground<<<<<<<by the Military Industrial Complex
"CIA director calls China biggest ‘threat’, says Ukraine war benefits US geopolitically and economically
CIA Director William J. Burns published an article demonizing China as the “bigge[st] long-term threat”, boasting that the spy agency has doubled its budget for anti-China ops. He also said the Ukraine war helps the US economically and geopolitically, and warned Taiwan could be next."
The cretin doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground but here he is calling the shots
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/02/07/cia-director-china-threat-russia-ukraine-war/
The MARKETPLACE not the jackass directing the CIA should be directing the economy's direction !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!