As if Trump hasn’t been a complete fiasco for democracy and America, now people postulate that a singularly delusional evangelical idiot will possibly run for President of the United States in 2028.
Seriously, could it really get any worse?
For those of us outside the United States, the answer is unlikely, as we, collectively, the EU, Canada, Australia, Japan, the ROK, NZ and the UK are intent on ensuring that America has as little influence on us as possible.
By 2030, the actual democracies of the world will have created a completely new financial framework for commerce amongst us that will not include the United States or any of its current financial instruments, including the U.S. dollar.
From Master Card to Visa, American Express to to SWIFT, the western nations will reconstruct, trade, sell and buy financial securities, stocks, bonds and treasury bills in their own currencies, not the American greenback.
And the loss of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency, already under attack due to BRIC’s and ever-growing debt and GDP to Debt ratio of the United States, will only feed the move by international investors to move away from America.
America’s Pending Implosion
The current administration’s acts of lunacy have clearly illuminated to its former allies and trade partners, that America cannot be trusted.
We have no need of a sociopath who will without provocation or rational thought act to extort his trade partners, discarding the rule of law and international trade law.
Worse, for the United States, investment flees instability and insecurity. America today is the poster child for both.
Its actions vis-a-vis its former allies, former partners, former investors, former friends is such that America will soon, no longer have a choice in relation to its actions.
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The aforementioned western democracies will tell the U.S. to get out of NATO, and will bar it entry into new trade organizations like the future Global Trade Organization.
America’s economy is not nearly as secure and robust as this administration would have one believe. Fully 76.4% of U.S. GDP is dependent on ‘services’. This puts the U.S. significantly at risk for any downturn in the economy as it depends on domestic consumption. America produces very little in the way of anything other than services.
And while the dependence by the ‘other western nations’ on the U.S. is significant, the abrupt shift that is occurring as the EU, UK, Canada, Australia, and to a lesser degree, the ROK and Japan, makes obvious that diversification and a new ‘unitary western trade group’ and its policies that includes all of these former allies, ensures that in the future all will collectively hedge against America.
Building defence, critical technologies, energy infrastructure and industrial capacity, in addition to moving away from U.S. data, AI and computer technologies to either internally manufacture, develop and utilize European, Japanese, Canadian and Korean options is steadily improving.
Failing that, consideration is now being given to China and its rapid growth in AI and digital services.
Decoupling from the U.S. has, as of yet, not occurred, but what the world wants the U.S. to clearly understand is that if America continues on its path of extortion and threats, then the EU, Canada, Australia, NZ, Japan, Korea and the U.K. will then decouple in order to not be held hostage by a criminal sociopath and his sycophants in the United States government and kleptocracy.
A Permanent Shift
The west cannot trust the U.S., and it has turned a corner in terms of how the EU and Canada see the United States. Change is not simply a subject for the future, it is today’s reality.
This change is, and will remain, permanent, as the forcing of change by the former allies and trade partner means that the disruption and rupture has imposed great cost and inconvenience to trade and to manufacturing as whole production and distribution, including the supply chains for almost all products and in the future, services are being reconstructed.
Billions upon billions of dollars has been lost due to Trump’s tariffs and his disregard for agreements and International Trade Law continues.
We neither accept this or will forget this.
America is simply a transactional player, as Canada and the EU will be to the U.S.
Only when it serves our interests will trade continue with America.
If Canada chooses to sell all its products, critical minerals, aluminum, fertilizer, gas and oil to those we trust, then that is the price of being stabbed in the back by the United States of America.
May America reap what it has sown.
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