Yes America will, he just hasn’t been told how the US economy would collapse without Taiwanese semiconductors yet. Taiwan will not let China take the fabs intact, it’s their insurance forcing the west to help them.
He’s perfectly okay collapsing the economy as long as he and a few rich friends make it out with more in the short term.
Just depends on if Taiwan or China gives him the bigger kickback.
Kickback sound nefarious and non-official. Call it a reward for official services. That’d make it completely legal per the SCOTUS ruling
Exactly then it’s all very cool and very legal thanks to the US supreme court. Honestly it’s my official duty to collect unnamed sums of cash for favours, how else can a poor President of the most powerful nation on Earth ever survive?
Nah, Russia is Trump’s true love. He doesn’t care if China benefits, as long as it weakens the US, because that is what benefits Russia.
He doesn’t need to make a decision or get a kickback. Russia has already provided for his every need; a massive publicity campaign that is ongoing, unlimited money in the form of crooked bank lending and sweetheart real estate deals. He gets Russian intelligence on whatever might threaten him or enrich him.
He saw the Russian oligarchy in which a handful of cutthroat dogs control everything and can do whatever they want, and fell in love.
The United States will lose its super power status with Donald Trump as president
and it will be transferred to China with Russia as their lapdog. A new age of authoritarianism which will be extremely costly and deadly to quell ala wwii
I don’t even know who would be able to fight the trio from hell. At that point it’s only a matter of time before the whole planet is fascist.
Not only that, I guarantee they will push us out of being the world’s reserve currency.
Once that happens, we no longer can enforce our will around the globe via soft power (threat of tariffs, sanctions, ect.). Goodbye to normal prices of any kind and hello hyperinflation.
That would explain his sudden love for crypto after bashing Bitcoin during his first term.
Goodbye to normal prices of any kind
Toooo late
You think 9% inflation is bad?
My sweet summer child wait until it hits 20, 30, 120%.
it will effectively hand trillions of dollars of business investments directly to china.
It needs to, the US needs to mind it’s own business
The US needs to act like a global citizen, not the global police.
Saying that they have been a significant stabilizing pwer post ww2, and the changing world order would create significant upset.
(Hate the term world order as it makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist - I mean the actual international relations definition)
Well for now the US remains the only global super power.
People say China is a superpower now, and maybe they will be, and perhaps they edge America out in certain, specific economic or military measures, but they don’t have the high power, strategic alliances that America has.
NATO, Five Eyes, NORAD, ANZUS, US France, US Japan, South Pacific Treaty, US Canada (most? of the arctic), US Brazil, US Australia. UK. South Korea. Mexico.
Even in Africa, we have a string of alliances right through the middle (the part that isn’t just desert), and still lesser, but still significant alliances in south and north Africa. Check the receipts on mutual defense agreements, cooperation agreements, joint military exercises, to say nothing of the many energy, space, and naval alliances, strategic military bases and territory; Alaska and Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Gaum, Samoa.
Wow, China has more people.
Trump is an idiot and a coward. He doesn’t give a shit about global security, he doesn’t get that abandoning allies only makes us look weak and unreliable, and he has no principles which could compel him to take a stand. He will decide things based on his own emotions and ego, doing whatever he thinks makes him look good. And his idea of looking good is less about being a leader or statesman and more about pretending to be a tough guy that gets respect by rewarding friends and punishing enemies.
Remember, this is the guy who, when faced with a choice between showing leadership in the face of a pandemic or downplaying the disease so that it wouldn’t be associated with him, went with downplaying the disease. If he can’t be trusted to make the right choice in a conflict between a virus and humanity, why would we ever expect him to make the tough call to defend an ally in a difficult conflict.
Honestly, I think if Trump had been president in 1941, he would have downplayed the significance of Pearl Harbor and would have used it as an excuse to stop aid to our allies. But I’m sure he’d still be all for internment, it’s very much his style.
pretending to be a tough guy that gets respect by rewarding friends and punishing enemies.
Or vice-versa, when it comes to the US’ relationship with the countries themselves (as opposed to his personal fawning sycophancy towards dictators).
Right, it’s not about whether they are America’s friend or foe, it’s only about their relationship with Trump. And unfortunately, Trump seems to be better at relating to dictators.
And it probably doesn’t help that democratically elected leaders from countries that have longstanding relationships with the US tend to expect America to live up to it’s obligations. They aren’t coming in and kissing the ring in exchange for favors, they’re putting the burden on the president to, you know, do his fucking job. “What’s that, Ukraine wants the defense funding that congress allocated for them? Well what will they do for me?”
And unfortunately, Trump seems to be better at relating to dictators.
I know you’re not intentionally mincing words, but I prefer to be as explicit about it as possible: Trump idolizes dictators and wants to be just like them. He is a fanboi of Putin, Xi, et al.
trump would never stand up for the smallest in a fight. That is cowardice.
Russia, China - hell, North Korea - take whatcha want.
No wonder the idiot commies are for him.
They are not really commies. But I’d guess you know that.
Edit: In case it’s not clear, I strenuously object to the use of “commie” as a pejorative, particularly when it makes no sense whatsoever.
I honestly don’t know what they are. I doubt they do.
I think they are a new definition to be honest. Is authoritarian one?
No idea. They’re very unhappy about everything. So - maybe?
Have you ever tried asking?
The term you’re looking for is Marxist-Leninist. It is by far the largest communist ideology in the world.
Then why would you say “idiot commies”?
They mask at leftist, but if you connect the dots they exclusively pipe up for trump and authoritarian countries like Russia, Iran or China
If everything is shared under communism, that would include political power. That makes communism (IMO) a direct democracy. Does that sounds like those countries to you?
What the fuck does it matter what I think? I never forwarded my opinion on the matter and simy made observations
They claim to be communist in some cases. Socialist is also a sort of blanket term which “means something” which - is somehow different from what others know it as. And “liberal” is an insult, so. They’re very confident they’re “left” of all creation, and any real-world effort to help people through existing national political structures is obviously corrupt and unworthy of examination.
Does that help?
No.
Ok then, thank you drive through.
Chinese check cleared
Nationalism taking over globalism…
It’s so incredibly short sighted. It’s like your neighbor asking to borrow your hose because his garage is on fire, and saying no because it costs water and doesn’t directly help you. Not only is that going to mean your neighbor is never, ever going to help you with anything, but if that garage fire turns into a raging house fire, your house might go down too.
“The globalist oligarchs are taking over!” - locally grown free range organic oligarchs probably
Fat greasey bearded red neck squeals intensify
“Trump’s comments still fall broadly within the ambit of the longstanding U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity regarding any action in the event of a Taiwan contingency.”
Ah yes, the strategic ambiguity that strategist Trump is known to utilize.
Good thing the ambit is so broad as to hold all of his strategies.
I legitimately have no idea what this comment means.
Yeah…we know…
Of course he merely “suggests” because he has no idea what he would actually do. He probably thinks Taiwan is a K-pop band.
China takes over Taiwan and starts restricting AI training chips to USA 😂
Because the entire world, including the US recognizes Taiwan is part of China
Only officially. Which sounds like a smart ass response but it’s not.
If US recognized Taiwan as its own country it would lose a major trading partner, affect global stability and trade… and do not much else. We know why warships are there, military bases in close proximity, bilateral exercises take place - but officially sure, you own them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Relations_Act
This whole post reads like China Astroturfing the subject on social media.
anticolonialist
Unless the “good colonialist” does it!🤣
