Elon Musk, Trump’s madman, mocked Volodymyr Zelensky’s former Twitter account for claiming that no one could force Ukraine to the negotiating table.
Musk’s mockery, while indicative of the contempt with which he and other billionaires around Donald Trump view most people, misses the fundamental problem of the war in Ukraine.
For Trump, the war in Ukraine, like the wars waged by Israel, is of secondary importance in American foreign policy.
The real problem is restoring the United States to its former strength. However, the first obstacle to this reconstruction is China.
Between 1880 and 2015, the United States was the largest economic power in the world, in purchasing power parity. China is now worth about 20% of the global economy, while the United States comes second, with 15% of that value.
It took China 135 years to regain first place in the world.
Fight against China
In Trump’s view, fighting China to regain world first place is the priority.
According to Trump, when the United States regains this first place, all the country’s problems will magically disappear.
Unfortunately for Trump, the demotion of the United States to second economic rank in the world does not come so much from a weakening of the American economy as from a strengthening of a few countries like China, Japan, Brazil and India. .
These countries are not going to stop developing economically to please Trump. With 15% of the global economy, the United States will also not be able to force them to adopt pro-American trade policies.
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The decline in U.S. economic power is real. But Trump will never admit that his country has slipped to second place in the world. He will also never accept the corollary of this observation, which is that the United States will take many, many years to regain its lost power, if it ever succeeds.
In this sense, Trump is lying to the Americans.
But no matter, for Trump and his acolytes, China has replaced the USSR as the main enemy of the United States. Except of course for the king’s fool, who because of Tesla and other interests located in China, calls himself pro-Chinese.
Contrary to what Trump believes, the worst enemy of the United States in the years to come will not be China, but rather the destructive policies desired by him.
Thus, Trump’s appointments, both in his cabinet and in public service, could generate a lot of corruption.
The cuts he wants to make in government services risk bringing Americans into the streets. Nothing to help rebuild American greatness.
But China could be an excellent scapegoat in response to Trump’s failures.
