For me it looks like Trump is begging Putin not threatening him. You can't wack somebody who carry a bigger stick than you...lol especially the one delivering that message is Tiny hand Marco Rubio
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So a flat import tax for everything then in other words?
Means speadrunning poverty. People cant afford goods, slowing local innovation rate. All money is spent on rent and groceries, leaving nothing left for science/infrastructure/education, thus when education lags, the next generation does not get the tools to stay competitive, so even more money needs to be paid for the same or comparable results. This eventually causes widespread poverty and uncompetitiveness.
BUT BUT we can import a lot of Indians and repopulate the Native Americans.
Trump is looking to speed run 1000% tariff on China. +25% for trading with Iran, +25% for trading with Venezuela, +50% for trading with Russia, etc. It is all an excuses to impose more tariff on China while demanding China to capitulate and sell all valuable Chinese companies to the US Empire.
Aircraft carrier are less important as technology advanced. An Aircraft Carrier is large slow elevated structure that will not be able to outrun FPV drones let alone under sea drones.
now comes that AI loitering drones and missiles with global ranges that can hit Aircraft carrier at ports.
Satellite tech is advanced that practically can see all the static SAMs instantly. thats why the new Pantsir have offroad version and they are putting smaller size of it on top of buildings.
than there is limitation on size of and weight of Aircraft carrier airwing. Everything on Carrier from AWACS to Drones will have far less ability. there is no resilience and flexibilty in large ammunitions.
fast large high altitude bombers make Carrier further redundant. who knows Carrier operations better than Gulf Arabs?
F-18 is decade younger in design and thoroughly outclass in capabilities by F-15.
He can cut off his country from all international trade whenever he wants, after all he's an unchecked authoritarian.
Why would anyone sell him companies if he can't even buy goods? How many companies did the west sell to Brezhnev when the USSR tried the same trick?
If (a rapidly shrinking) US market is so valuable to China that they should prioritise negotiating for it, what sense does it make to negotiate for it by selling companies??? How does this increase China's leverage and force an open door with US market? The knee jerk response to begin negotiation would be cutting off resources US needs, which to some extent is what China is doing already against US military tied companies.
In reality Trump has a laughable strategy of trying to both eat and have his cake. He wants to create monopolies at home to prop up uncompetitive state owned businesses owned by his oligarch friends. At the same time, he dares not actually break the economy by pursuing trade conflicts, so he limits his action to verbal and then always roll back before the deadline. In this way, he shows his "patriotism" to the likes or Alex Karp and Musk, while at the same time not instantly tanking US economy into the ground. Everything is about domestic control.
The problem is that China is not interested in being Trump's boogeyman that he can roll out to keep control at home, very painful retaliations have hit US economy/stock market and will continue to hit as long as Trump thinks he can flip flop internationally to maintain domestic control. Unless Trump can offer something else of real value.
I mean, I've seen a lot of kangings by many group of people around the world, whether than be Americans, British, French, Russians, Vietnamese, Indonesians, Iranian etc - But man, Jai Hinds truly are on a whole different level of kanging.
lol . do you think Gulf Arabs dont know how much important Land bases and Land based aircraft are for US operations?
Arabs set the direction of Aviation. whether its 777-300ER/777X or A380 or this Su-34M.