This list is 100% in MSS hands right now. Trump himself probably forwarded the email straight to
[email protected]
Im wondering if a grand deal has already been made:
China gets:
- global primacy in tech, consumer goods
- no more US resistance to China expanding influence sphere
- control over the gulf Arabs, at the cost of letting Israel win the war on Palestine
US gets:
- Chinese tech will implicitly help Trump/Musk/associates avoid personal embarrassment
- allowed to bully it's immediate neighbors
- opportunity to build a limited local industry market (read: oligarchs kickbacks)
- annex Gaza, at the cost of handing saudis/middle Eastern oil to China.
A lot of what Trump is doing makes way more sense then. He's looking after himself and his clique's power only. If US can avoid fighting China head to head, all the chaos will benefit Trump personally, so he can build a new America in exactly the image he wants. "the last time you ever voted" indeed.
It's like the fall of the USSR back then. The federation leader has collapsed under external, internal pressure and the greed of a few elites. At the time, many Warsaw pact citizens were shocked, wanted the alliance to stay and believed in USSR victory and superiority into the last. But their opinions were irrelevant in the face of central decision from Gorbachev.