Political Editorial Opinion
The European Union is finally waking up to its possibilities and potential. Germany, France and the other EU countries, except for Hungary, which isn’t sure it even wants to be a democracy, have become actively seeking the expansion of their economies and are now building to ensure that the EU can stand against Russian aggression.
It has also awakened to the reality that the U.S. is no longer an ally, and should actually considered to be the enemy of democracies in the west.
The population of the EU is now 450 million with a combined GDP of 22.5 trillion currently for its 27 member states. Adding Canada, the U.K. and Norway’s GDP to that figure increases the GDP of these partners to 28.5 trillion, compared to the U.S. of 29.5, (seeing as over a trillion dollars of AI investments in 2025 actually do not count as GDP growth).
When one adds in those ASEAN, MERCOSUR and TPP Nations that are either aligned with BRICS or that are intent on creating a new Global Trade Organization, they will account for 66% of global trade compared to the U.S. total global trade at 10-12%.
Norway and of course the U.K. are not members of the EU. However, in light of how the current administration in the United States has become both completely unhinged and predatory in relation to its its former allies, partners and neighbours, ignoring the rule of law, International Law and its foreign policy agreements and treaties, it is obvious that trusting the U.S. would be irrational. Such is the current situation vis-a-vis the U.S. that the EU has decided to abandon much of its internal conflict and focus on asserting the strength of the EU and NATO. Now, there is a focus on not relying whatsoever on the United States, as it is obvious that the U.S. under the current administration will likely leave NATO should Russia attack Europe itself and once again return to the isolationist history of America that prevailed from 1898 to 1941 and the attack on Pearl Harbour.
Now that Russia has developed Imperialist aims, and the fact that America seems to be on the same path, (at least for the moment hemispherically) the middle powers and the democracies of the world are banding together to counter three opposing forces. America, in a protectionist and increasingly isolationist retreat from being a superpower, to an expansionist Russia and a China that now has more global trade and commerce influence by far than the United States.
The US accounts for between 10-12% of global trade, while the EU accounts for 13.4% of global trade. China accounts for between 12-16% of global trade. The fact is that America no longer has much leverage. Especially if all the nations that make up approximately 66% of global trade create a new Global Trade Organization, and as a ‘union’ work together cohesively to mitigate America’s perceived influence. Based on US economic power, which is also waning, and its liabilities, which are many, irrespective of the lies made by the current American administration, it’s time to end the relationship with the United States.
Until 2025, America, which makes up 4-5% of the world’s population, consumed 25% of the world’s resources. It now uses access to its consumptive market as a coerce tool to essentially threaten nations through the application of ‘tariffs’ as a bludgeoning tool in its trade relations, and by using simple transactional trade ‘one-offs’ made between the so-called leader of the United States and individual nations, who alone do not have sufficient size or economic strength to withstand what has simply become U.S. extortion.
However, as Mark Carney, Canada’s Prime Minister called for at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland three weeks ago, it is now time for the middle and lesser powers to join together in the formation of a new economic and trade organization in order to remove American leverage and to act as an integrated group in favour of a rules based order once again.
The difference this time, will be that the United States will not be a member of this Global Trade Organization. A new GTO will be of sufficient size and economic strength that it can withstand American economic, and even the military threats of the U.S., as it recently did in relation to Greenland’s sovereignty decisions and in Greenland’s right to self-determination.
America’s Weakness
While America wields a massive military, and along with China and Russia maintains a large nuclear arsenal, it is finding that the risks of military intervention, such as occurred in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq have costs that far exceed simply blood and treasure.
America’s stature in the world today has not been worse in more than 80 years. No longer respected, no longer considered a full democracy, no longer a country with the rule of law, America as seen by its former allies, partners and friends is nothing but a bully that borders on a rogue state. Project 2025, the textbook for the current administration, is simply a blueprint for a kleptocratic and plutocratic America to threaten its hemispheric neighbours and to steal resources from those foreign nations.
For many, America is now considered a fascist state. Similar to America’s aims at the turn of the 19th Century under McKinley and then Roosevelt’s forays into American Imperialism. The current U.S. President is a precedent that the rest of the world’s democracies wish would act more like a rational, responsible democracy. However, it would seem that democracies ship of state in the U.S. was torpedoed in 2025, and has a year later, now sunk below the waves.
The United States economy now sits on a knife’s edge.
While on paper, there appears to be growth, in reality it is a paper tiger and an outright lie. Similar to the litany of lies that the U.S. regurgitates daily in the world’s media, Americas real growth last year was actually .1%. The remainder of its growth was simply fancy accounting by America’s largest tech companies, as investments were counted as growth, nearly 1 trillion dollars of which was simply pumped into artificial intelligence and in the building of data centres, to support what America’s plutocrats believe AI will create. However, AI is so heavily leveraged that if there is any downturn in the economy, it will cause the U.S. economy to collapse by itself, under its sheer weight of speculative investment, without returns.
But the news gets worse.
The U.S. now has a massive debt problem. With 38.59 trillion dollars of debt, at this moment, and interest on that amount being greater than the U.S. entire Military Budget, America is heavily leveraged. But by the time the Precedent setting President in the U.S. leaves office, or is dragged out by the maddened crowd and lynched, America will owe approximately 42 to 43 Trillion in debt. And while it pretends this isn’t an issue, it truly is, as foreign holders of American treasuries amount to approximately 8.8 trillion dollars, which may well be dumped back as debt to the U.S.of A. At 50 plus trillion U.S. of debt, it’s highly likely that the wheels of the American economy will simply, fall off.
Meanwhile America continues its actions in relation to threats on its neighbours combined with its rogue military actions that have destroyed any trust that its former allies, friends and neighbours ever had in the U.S.
And, as may well have already started, interest rates rise, and the world’s owners of American debt, sell their debt in fear that America may default on it, then, America will be at extreme risk economically and societally.
As for America’s vapour-ware of rationalizations for why they have attacked Venezuela, threatened and tariffed Canada, threatened Greenland, Columbia and now Cuba, these actions have led quickly to America having lost almost all of its influence in Europe, Canada, the BRICS nations, Republic of Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Norway and of course entirely within BRICS.
As the following photo illustrates, BRICS is rapidly expanding and in the near future will account for 53 nations representing 55% of the world’s total population.
China, meanwhile has built and is building trust among its trading partners, (not just those within BRICS) who, while paying close attention to China’s intentions, are willing to overlook ideology in favour of rationality and trade that respects the rule of international law.
America has become like a bull in a China shop, who in concert with a group of plutocratic and kleptocratic carpet baggers are running around the shop scooping whatever they can grab, while the bull that is the U.S. military watches over the shop keeper and his workers to ensure no one brandishes a weapon.
The facts are now simple.
America is seen not just as unreliable, but a threat that borders on being the enemy to the rest of the democracies of the world.
We don’t envy America. We eschew it.
Our plan, and the western world’s plan, is to as quickly as possible build walls that surround America, and in turn stop America from threatening the rest of us.
Simply put, the old world order is dead, and with it, America in our eyes.
And who created this global shit storm?
The biggest shit himself.
Donald J. Trump.
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