General Discussion

more countries start following China's example. trump... nor anyone inside or outside his admin... can hope to have everything America needs manufactured in America in any timeframe. Some things are just not possible. And the more he screws around with Ukraine, I think more the NATO countries are going to be inclined to break away from trump and America. If you can't count on a friend being a friend in a war, then they're an enemy by default. Each of these countries no doubt exports something the US needs and can't make on it's own due to resources or materials... not to count labor costs. And trump will never increase the minimum wage. He spent a hell of a long time last campaign talking about cap on "maximum wage" and no minimum wage. I remember because it incensed me so much that America's workers were being dissed like that, and no one was making a hoopla about it. But then, every other word out of his mouth is a scandal, so I guess what can you say? Once we start having fewer and fewer countries unwilling to trade with us, cutting off whole categories of goods and/or services, and creating alternate trading sources and routes for themselves, it will take us forever to re-establish those trading partners. And why would they be in any kind of a hurry? American voters have shown them they'll take the worst four years any president ever served, and still elect him AGAIN, over a sedate, secure, statesman like Biden. The best thing that could happen in this country is another 40 years in the desert for the republicans. I think only then could other countries step out and tentatively trust in America again. That's probably putting more of a human face on trading with countries than necessary, but that's how I look at it.