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Lol, he even said the "when China comes we get a hospital, when the West comes we get a lecture" thing.

I still have hope he won't actually be that mean to China. At least he hasn't been obsessively ranting about it in the past like most other Republicunts. Hopefully there isn't too much radical Hindutva BJP genocide influence from the wife.
 

sndef888

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He is a malignant narcissist. They react with rage when they suffer what are called "narcissistic injuries", in other words when they suffer an ego injury.

Remember, people (including some within the Chinese government) thought he was just posturing originally and didn't think that he would actually start a trade war with China, but he did. He does things out of ignorance and stupidity because he does not know where the red lines are that should not be crossed.

The other thing to bear in mind are the people he surrounds himself with and his supporters. These are the racist evangelicals for whom a nuclear apocalypse is to be welcomed because it brings their end of the world and rapture into heaven. Even for those that are not religious cultists, there is the underlying racist assumption that the Chinese cannot keep up, won't slap back, or are militarily incompetent. Their estimations of risk therefore are inaccurate and they might well escalate matters thinking that they can get away with it.
I believe Trump truly doesn't want war with China and wants a cooperative economic relationship, but the issue is that he was dragged down the wrong path by his appointees the last term.

The problem with American politics is that ALL the high up career politicians and advisors like Mike Pompeo are militaristic bastards hellbent on pursuing American imperialism using war and subversion.

Trump can't find a single person that wants peace. Think about it, there's a reason he was the only President in recent history that didn't preside over a war. The entire American political system is built on creating war and imperialism, Trump is an outsider to this system. If everyone around you tells you to go for a trade war with China, you eventually give in and end up doing it even if you didn't want to.
 

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I believe Trump truly doesn't want war with China and wants a cooperative economic relationship, but the issue is that he was dragged down the wrong path by his appointees the last term.

The problem with American politics is that ALL the high up career politicians and advisors like Mike Pompeo are militaristic bastards hellbent on pursuing American imperialism using war and subversion.

Trump can't find a single person that wants peace. Think about it, there's a reason he was the only President in recent history that didn't preside over a war. The entire American political system is built on creating war and imperialism, Trump is an outsider to this system. If everyone around you tells you to go for a trade war with China, you eventually give in and end up doing it even if you didn't want to.

Oh he wanted a trade war. The Chinese were like the Mexicans in being the convenient non-white scapegoats to be blamed for anything and everything, especially to those xenophobic rural whites.

The only thing is he didn't anticipate the Chinese would slap back, whereas the Mexicans mostly just stayed silent aside from a few ineffectual verbal protests.

Even now, he has been talking about Trade War 2.0 with him slapping even more tariffs on China, again claiming he is punishing China and making them pay. This is despite the fact that it has been explained for years now that that is not how tariffs work. He is either willfully stupid and still doesn't understand, or he is willfully lying to his supporters. Again people are saying "oh he doesn't really mean he'll actually start another trade war and put 60%+ tariffs on China", but again I think they'll be shocked when he does exactly that.
 

sndef888

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Oh he wanted a trade war. The Chinese were like the Mexicans in being the convenient non-white scapegoats to be blamed for anything and everything, especially to those xenophobic rural whites.

The only thing is he didn't anticipate the Chinese would slap back, whereas the Mexicans mostly just stayed silent aside from a few ineffectual verbal protests.

Even now, he has been talking about Trade War 2.0 with him slapping even more tariffs on China, again claiming he is punishing China and making them pay. This is despite the fact that it has been explained for years now that that is not how tariffs work. He is either willfully stupid and still doesn't understand, or he is willfully lying to his supporters. Again people are saying "oh he doesn't really mean he'll actually start another trade war and put 60%+ tariffs on China", but again I think they'll be shocked when he does exactly that.
Okay, I should have worded it more clearly.

Yes, he wanted to pretend to have a trade war and get some small concessions, just like he did with Canada, Mexico and EU. China was not special in any sense. It was just a political move to cement his image of "strength".

But the eventual morphing into adversary-like relations like a full blown trade war, Huawei arrest issue, and even all the propaganda about Xinjiang, HK etc was likely pushed and influenced by his appointees, not by himself.

Of course, another major factor was Covid, which made it convenient for him to blame China instead of America's inability to implement proper measures.
 

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Trump sold out America to right-wing Jews (see personal background of his daughter) and chose Pence for personal safety (nobody wanted Pence as POTUS in 2016), and now it seems he is selling it out to right-wing Indians. As for him turning America into a neo-feudal oligarchy, this is consistent with his first presidency. Also American Catholic radicals and Opus Dei etc likely play a role.
lol how can Trump sell some thing that he does not own?. All those Jews and Hindus in America are there because they had the best education and now the wealthiest members of the society. The Weak demographics of Europe does not allow much to add rather Europe will be sucking people from places like Global South and Turkey.

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Why Modi staying in power depends on his ally’s old dream​

After ten years in power with his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the majority, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emerged from the 2024 election dependent on the BJP’s allies to continue to govern. The largest ally of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh (AP), with its 16 members of Parliament, and headed by three-time Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.

Naidu’s main demand for keeping Modi in power: that the central government revive and finance his dream project of a new state capital, named Amravati (‘place for immortals’). It is to be sustainable – and “more modern” than Singapore.

Naidu visited New Delhi on July 4, before Modi left for Moscow for the first bilateral visit of his third term – and demanded more than one trillion rupees ($12 billion) in grants, of which 500 billion rupees was for building Amaravati.

Out of the total 1 trillion rupees, Naidu sought an allocation of 150 billion rupees for Amravati in the current fiscal year.

Modi has no choice as his BJP has only 240 MPs; 272 are needed to control Parliament. People expect that whatever Naidu wants, Naidu will get.


Jagan’s Three Capitals Plan

Just days after Jagan took over in May 2019, he did not want Naidu’s ‘baby’ to succeed, according to Rao. So Jagan alleged massive corruption in the Amaravati project, and laid the groundwork to cancel it eventually. By December 2019, he made a unique proposal for three capitals for the state: Visakhapatnam as the administrative capital, Kurnool as the judicial capital and Amaravati as the legislative capital.

Farmers who had given up their lands immediately took to the streets in protest. They were beaten by police, and the controversy snowballed. The matter went to court, with the AP High Court ruling that Jagan’s government had no grounds to stop Amravati’s development, as the state government was committed to a signed agreement.

It also directed Jagan’s government to develop Amaravati within six months and stick to the master plan prepared by his predecessor. The government promptly approached the Supreme Court, which stayed the high court’s decision.

“When Amaravati was initially announced, the land ranged from Rs 2 million ($24,000) to Rs 5 million ($60,000) per acre in different villages,” Rao said. “When Jagan came to power, no one was interested in purchasing the land. Now with Naidu back at the helm, prices have skyrocketed. One acre is now Rs 30-50 million ($360,000 to $600,000).

Amaravati Today

Half-constructed buildings, clogged drainage systems, and dug-up approach roads are what greets visitors to Amaravati today. The buildings include 13-floor legislators’ apartments, All India Service multi-storeyed apartments, bungalows meant for top administrators, the secretariat and General Administration Department towers, and non-governmental organization (NGO) quarters.

The only functional buildings are the High Court and the legislative assembly.

But over the past three weeks, Amaravati has witnessed a burst of activity. Excavators, tractors and other heavy machinery are clearing the overgrowth and the drainage. Senior government officials visit daily to supervise work and to assess the next few steps.


Naidu Rides Again

“Amaravati will be our capital,” Naidu declared after storming back to power on June 4. “You will now witness hectic activity as new roads will be laid and all other facilities created.”

During a visit, Naidu, who prostrated himself at the site, sought suggestions from the public on how to develop Amaravati; he accused his predecessor of causing “complete devastation.” “I am not able to understand what to do, where to start and how to proceed,” he said, filled with emotion.

There are challenges ahead. The World Bank and AIIB withdrew from the project after Jagan shelved it in 2019. Getting them back on board, along with other international firms had signed on, is a major task. Naidu has now set a 30-month deadline to complete the construction of those buildings that are 90% finished.

That is hilarious. Modi is being forced to build a city that they abandoned 6 years ago because another politician was jealous. Now he has no other option but to give whatever money they want to build Singapore 2.0.

Naidu visited New Delhi on July 4, before Modi left for Moscow for the first bilateral visit of his third term – and demanded more than one trillion rupees ($12 billion) in grants, of which 500 billion rupees was for building Amaravati.
But over the past three weeks, Amaravati has witnessed a burst of activity. Excavators, tractors and other heavy machinery are clearing the overgrowth and the drainage. Senior government officials visit daily to supervise work and to assess the next few steps.
Amravati (‘place for immortals’). It is to be sustainable – and “more modern” than Singapore.
 
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