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Being on friendlier terms with Uncle Sam when translates from late empire sophistry to 'do as I say or I blow your fucking civilisation back to the stone ages'.
Trump is desperately mimicking Chinas state capitalism in areas like rare earths, micro chips, steel, oil, industrial policy. But his belated attempts are far too isolated and limited to adequately restore any semblance of competitive advantage to the antiquated US military industrial complex.
China has won the trade war and The Hormuz Crisis looks like being USAs Suez Crisis equivalent- where the once great empire is shown to no longer be capable of enforcing its will upon all others.
Take your time in dealing with reality...you clearly need it.
Actually, no, he isn't mimicking anything; he is doing what the US has done historically. When you flip the trade game on its head with dumping like China has this is the only way for any company to get off the ground. This is also why with certain deals that have been struck part of the agreements include the US divesting its stake once they are operational, profitable, and stable.
Trump is applying state capitalism in order to respond to Chinas state capitalism.
The 'free markets' do not have sufficient incentive to invest in certain strategically important sectors and USAs neoliberal free market rules policies have left it woefully exposed in terms of strategic supply chains and productive capacity.
USA cannot build ships competitively because most of its heavy industrial base has been outsourced to China.
Private for profit companies do not give a fuck about the nation state and its mercantile integrity and security- unless the nation state provides incentives and subsidies- this is what Trump is now belatedly doing in a clear mimicry of Chinas State Capitalism.
What do you think the New Deal was? Your understanding of US history is wildly lacking. TVA, FDIC, Import-Export Bank, and many, many more were created. Again. This isn't new. This is just the next evolution.
Maybe just maybe learn some US history before you act like we copied China
Being on friendlier terms with Uncle Sam when translates from late empire sophistry to 'do as I say or I blow your fucking civilisation back to the stone ages'.
This is what communists and the IRGC say to their civilians every day anyway. What's the problem with us doing it to you?
The concept of national sovereignty and the right to self determination, perhaps?
The vast majority of Iranians support their governments defense of their sovereignty and rights while most Americans do not support Trumps invasion of Iran.
Trumps brutal, chaotic, failed and unlawful invasion and serial war crimes have hardened the resolve of Iranians to not be slaves to US imperialism and its dictates.
Most westerners are more concerned about the price of filling up their tank than the right to dignity and peaceful development in the developing nations we have subjugated for decades if not centuries.
The vast majority of Iranians support their governments defense of their sovereignty and rights while most Americans do not support Trumps invasion of Iran.
There's plenty of Iranians who dislike the IRGC. The government kills them. But when we kill the IRGC it's a war crime? I don't get it.
Persian Americans requested this. It's really more of an internal affair than a US invasion. Not sure why the PRC feels entitled to give an opinion on it.
Ya gotta love the brain cells you lose talking to someone who is the perfect Russian, China, Iran puppet.
He just dials in on a single point within a topic and will never look around to see what else is going on. Country kills 30k of their own civilians, and the leadership gets bombed, and what happens? He defends the civilian killers.
'As my father said, governments come and go, but what endures is Iran itself – its civilisational greatness rooted in reverence for spirituality and wisdom rather than materialism and greed. Trump can destroy bridges and factories, but he cannot erase the will and know-how of a great nation.'
Yeah. The IRGC has to go. We're not at war with the nation of Iran. Do you think the US objective is to genocide Iranians? We want to cut off the PRC's oil supply and if the regime is ousted in the chaos that would be a nice bonus for literally everyone. The IRGC offers absolutely nothing to humanity. They can't even defend Iran from American missiles, which was their whole use case.
If we wanted to kill everyone we already have that option and we haven't taken it.
OK clanker
Yes, we should do likewise. Freedom ain't free.
The PRC is everything that good Bitcoiners would desire their own societies to not become. And it has proven itself desirous and semi-capable of exporting that tyranny. They cannot be permitted to obtain an ounce more of clay.
If war is an inevitable component of human existence, let this be the regime to bear the full brunt of it, lest the world devolve into the petty atheistic passive-agressive totalitarianism of @Solomonsatoshi and his "mixed" (unfree) economy.