Trump 2.0 official thread

[FriedButter]

I think this is a trap. A large amount of US spending is spent on overseas deployments, and Trump can easily order those puppet countries to bear these costs for the US.

For the Americans, they are withdrawing from their global empire to cut costs. Specifically in Europe. The Russians will simply return back to normal pre-war level of spending. Then China reduction will come at the cost of halting, stopping, and slowing military modernization. Exposing China to danger and weakness which is exactly what the China hawks want.

 

[jiajia99]

For the Americans, they are withdrawing from their global empire to cut costs. Specifically in Europe. The Russians will simply return back to normal pre-war level of spending. Then China reduction will come at the cost of halting, stopping, and slowing military modernization. Exposing China to danger and weakness which is exactly what the China hawks want.

Why would China accept that kind of crap
Is beyond me

 

[Biscuits]

Can't believe we are talking such nonsense on this thread. Yes they have functioning nukes.

Yes, some. But their nuclear strategy requires them to hit many thousands of targets across the whole world.

Otherwise if say they strike China only, then the American wasteland will be colonized by a fully intact Russia or even Mexico or Cuba.

I do think they have real issues trying to maintain a larger military than China despite a smaller (and now exposed as much less efficient) economy. That expands to nukes as well. To modernize nukes would be costly, and US is very far from first strike capability against 1 major, let alone first strike against all of them.

The cost would be better spent on conventional weapons, especially replacing Ukraine and Israel lost stocks. Unless US wants to go to imperial Japan levels of military spending.

With a selective program to make more SSBN only and install more nukes on usually conventional missiles, US can maintain a deterrence position where if either other major first strikes US, American nukes can still destroy multiple population centers in the enemy nations, achieving deterrence without the need for massive spending. China is not gonna trade 3 mega cities for all of US for example.

 

[SilentObserver]

Interesting video interviewing a rapper from Taiwan. I don't know if anyone has brought this up in here but a protest happened in Taiwan of over 150,000 people against the ruling party. So what it seems like what political unrest happening in South Korea is happening in Taiwan as well and the US and Western media is covering up.

Thanks for sharing. I've watched a few of their videos and it's refreshing to see the self awareness and level headed discussions from these Korean Americans.

 

[dingyibvs]

Oddly enough, i spent some time doing work close to things like this. This issue for this problem is actually a focus on product/process delivery rather than system upgrade.

The proper resolution is

1. Digitize all from paper data to a stable digital format
2. Use said format to build software/processes

Of course, the politicians don't understand/care about a system they wont handle in another 4 years. So what they want is to just speed things up.

1. Create a digital system/software that can speed up the processing process
2. feed existing paper data into said system with minimal changes to ensure smooth transition

As a result, every time they try to update the system, it fails because inevitably they encounter a format that doesn't work for their developed system, causing them to abandon it.

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The problem with public institutions is that there's usually a myriad of archaic payment structures built through history that are guaranteed by law. It creates an extremely complicated system where everyone is paid differently.

For example, San Francisco, tech hub of the US, still uses paper timesheets for teacher salaries. A few years ago they tried to digitize the process and it was a disaster. Teachers went months without getting paid, some went homeless because of it, and in the end they had to scrap the whole multi-million dollar system and go back to doing everything by paper. You can find vendors who are willing to digitize the system for you, but you can't find those who'll do that as well as willing to be responsible for any fall out.

 

[GulfLander]

I think this is a trap. A large amount of US spending is spent on overseas deployments, and Trump can easily order those puppet countries to bear these costs for the US.

Will US be willing to drop "Monroe doctrine"? Or will Japan, PH etc be willing to demilitarize?

 

[coolgod]

Will US be willing to drop "Monroe doctrine"? Or will Japan, PH etc be willing to demilitarize?

Doesn't matter, I'm sure China will be will to help Japan and PH demilitarize. Why do those two countries need to waste taxpayer money anyways

 

[Serb]

The president of a democratic country is a reflection of its people's intelligence and the state they’re in. Honestly, I can’t believe the majority actually buy into this false bravado clown show.

Now, if you slap a '100% tariff' on a majority of the global population, covering 43% of the world’s GDP, major shares of critical resources, and the primary driver of current global GDP growth (which, by the way, is over 10% higher than the entire G7 combined), you're basically asking for an economic collapse. And not a slow one, either.

On top of that, if these countries decided to ditch the dollar altogether, your tariffs wouldn’t even matter. They wouldn’t be selling to the US in the first place anymore themselves, so why would they care about your tariffs in that scenario? At that point, you can only attack them militarily.

At the end of the day, the dollar is just a middleman currency used for trade between nations, it’s not valuable because people want and can get some 'American goods' for example. Take away its role as a trade intermediary currency, and it becomes completely worthless in an instant, and the US collapses as an export market for goods.

Also, someone should probably let him know that they've already been de-dollarizing parts of their trade (and more stuff) for years, switching to local currencies. And if a joint currency doesn’t happen, it won’t be because he said so, it’s just unrealistic logistically plus conflicting interests.

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[RedBaron]

I don't know if anyone has brought this up in here but a protest happened in Taiwan of over 150,000 people against the ruling party.

What were the protestors protesting about ?

 

[tygyg1111]

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He's actually bending the knee. I'm guessing that cutting US defense spending that badly will be linked into China and Russia also entering some sort of deal to cut defense spending too, alongside some other concessions. Too bad the 180 policy flip that will happen once the Democrats get elected means that this won't be a long term policy and thus impossible for China and Russia and other countries to actually commit to.

With such a drastic move of cutting the budget in half, I think there's a very good chance that NGAD is on the chopping block. Also I really really find it funny that people still consistently treat Russia like it's some kind of superpower on the same tier as China and America.

The appropriate answer to this proposition is a resounding 'no'; why would you quit when you're ahead? The same logic applies to ending the Ukraine war.