A conman is back to be America's next president! Any surprises at all?
Not at all. The mainstream media has been saying that it was going to be a close fight. It was clear to me that Trump would carry the day. The mainstream media are just trying desperately to sway voters to Harris’s side. (I always argue that the Democrats are too dumb, intellectually so for that matter, to know that 70% of Americans so not make use of their brain!) It appears that the Republicans would also control both the Senate and the House of Representatives!
With Trump returning, the world has to prepare for the worst, China especially. It is not that I prefer Harris, I thought her Ha-ha blonde inadequacy would be the lesser of the two evils for China and by extension, for the world too. But with the outcome known, maybe I should try to find some positive things about Trump’s incoming presidency.
Yes, it was Trump who woke the Chinese up; maybe his new term will also awaken the rest of the world – not only the Global South which have more or less known the true colours of Americanism, but also its Ukraine, EU, NATO, pro-West allies like Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Argentina, semi-ally like India, and “wedlock child” pseudo-state like Taiwan. Israel is perhaps the only exception; regardless of Democrats or Republicans, the Jews are the first amongst equals in the USA!
The US has become a very strange country. It has the best universities in the world; yet, 70% of its population knows very little of anything that is outside America. Its politicians are largely humbugs even though many are alumni of Harvard or Yale or other Ivy League universities. The more outrageous Trump spoke, the more popular he emerged.
Trump the Lion King
He knows many western leaders do not accord him with any great regard. (Even a minion like Justin Trudeau would dare to belittle behind his back.) He is going to kick them hard. And Narendran Modi be aware: Trump will rush to the toilet to wash himself if you give him a hug.
Trump’s way of making America great again
As of October 29, 2024, the U.S. national debt is $35.85 trillion. The cost of servicing the U.S. federal debt is $1,133 billion, which is 17% of the total federal spending. (But as a country, the United States is actually still very wealthy. Its national wealth is estimated to be around $137.6 trillion.) Instead of getting the rich to pay more taxes, he will continue to borrow to fund the federal needs. He will surely continue to count on the US Dollar to harvest the world by printing more money and manipulating interest rates.
But it is already too late
They have few shipyards to produce ships now, let alone big-ticket naval vessels. Ditto the situation with their fighter jets. Soon they might have to tout them as flying coffins.
Devoid of a strong determination to increase national productivity, America’s decline will surely accelerate.
Philosophy and Missions
America leaders generally do not demonstrate that they can conduct themselves or lead with a head and heart that is anchored on philosophy. Good philosophy is driven by virtue, which is usually a life-long belief. Trump’s “Make American Great Again” and Biden’s “America First” are not philosophically anchored; rather, they are mere slogans. (Malaysia, under Anwar Ibrahim, has also come up with a set of values called MADANI, which stand for Prosperity, Respect, Trust and Compassion. He seeks to transform society through Economy and Finance, Legislation, Institution, Education, Community, Culture, Urban and Rural Developments. But given the country’s racial and religious entrenchments, these again may just not be executable. They are largely empty pledges!)
Biden’s mission, though not expressly spelt out, was to retard China. And his team, led by Antony Blinken went all out to create a Mafia fraternity to break China. But as the country’s top diplomat, Blinken appears like a headless chicken, hopping from country to country but bringing back nothing. Janet Yellen is a has-been economics professor. Gina Raimondo’s sanctions are driven by her hatred of China, not foresight or strategy. Katherine Tai wants to show that she is whiter than the whites. As for Llyod Austin, in our jargon, he is a dai-funshi (big, sweet potato),
Against a sage-like leader in China, and against the strength and depth of China’s cultural roots (resilience, perseverance, innovativeness and entrepreneurship, biases towards STEM education, amongst them) and its huge internal markets, can such a mission accomplishable? My answer is also a big No. With a rising China, the obvious option is to work with each other to make the world a better place for everybody, which China will strongly support.
China is a country that does not believe in Zero-sum game. Xi Jinping’s Belt & Road Initiative was designed to improve connectivity, trade and economic growth between Asia, Africa and Europe and the progress and results are obvious for all to see. Hitherto land-locked and left-out countries are now able to move the goods across borders. People become richer. Unfortunately, thanks to American pressure, many countries have opted out or not to join the BRI.
A policy that is based on supremacism and arrogance, which America has been practicing all this while, is surely untenable in the long run.
Biden and his team have caused America to be the “Who cares?” of the world. Even Benjamin Netanyahu is bold to say this to America in the face.
The Biden administration has brought China and Russia closer, and alienate the Global South, who now sees the US as the supporter of many bad causes in the world today.
Biden squandered his four years in the Oval Office!
Its philosophy-driven policy – centred on people’s needs, global good, etc – will certainly prevail. It does not need elaboration. I dare say China has long braced itself for the Trump eventuality. Its industries will certainly suffer initially, but its overall ascendency is unstoppable.
Thanks to the Renaissance, Europe had been the masters of the modern world – until America became No 1 after World War II. For some years Europe under the EU seemed determined to reassert itself and its Euro also became a reserve currency. But now it is a sad union. Its president is an American stooge. Her policies are against the interests of many Europeans. (A case in point is the recent tariff against Chinese EV vehicles, when China’s market is open to all world makes.) Their sanctioning of Russia and refusal to but Russia gas is making their production cost too prohibitive and the lives of their citizens tough. For a very sophisticated society, you cannot imagine they can be so beholden to America that is egging them on to fight their neighbour. NATO’s decision to expand eastwards will certainly go down in history as another example of shooting one’s own foot.
Trump has already said he will end the Ukraine War if he becomes the President. The Europeans would certainly be wondering why they had chosen to fight Russia in the first place. The war was brought about by a joker’s fantasy with NATO in the first place.
Much of Ukraine has been destroyed. Vladimir Putin’s red line – DO NOT BE PART OF NATO – is simple for Ukrainians to respect. It simply must kick out Zelenskyy, who is Jewish in the first place. (Some political observers even speculate that behind him is the big Zionist conspiracy to turn Ukraine into a Jewish homeland, since much of it is now owned by American Jewish interests.)
Europe is where the Renaissance began, and many great philosophers and thinkers hailed from. But the people like Stoltenberg, von der Leyen, and leaders of Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, etc are intellectually incongruent with this greatness.
Fortunately, they still have people like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić that have exhibited good sense.
The BRICS Summit 2024 (the 16th, in Kazan, Russia) earlier this month, attended by 36 world leaders, including the United Nations secretary general António Guterres, has clearly demonstrated that Putin is not a pariah as the West Plus wants us to believe. Every clear-headed person now knows that Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine was not premised on a Czarist’s expansionist mission. The West has simply created a monster which Putin has to destroy. (Unfortunately, many countries are still behaving like ostriches!)
Even though BRICS has expanded, one of its original pillars is its Archilles heel. That is India. Modi harbours global leadership ambition. He is NOT happy for India to be lumped into the Global South. Indeed, it has the population to support this ambition. Individually, many Indians are academically and professionally very brilliant. And they speak the international language English. But its cultural, social and religious are too fossilized for great nationhood. Its rich are getting richer; its poor remain downtrodden, value-lacking and behaviourally wanting.
BRICS Plus could easily pave the way for an alternative financial system to overcome the SWIFT, which has largely been weaponised by the US. Unfortunately, India is not quite in favour of the new system, which obviously has to be led by China. The only thread that is holding India in BRICS is perhaps Russia, a country that India depended on weaponry for many years and has benefited a great deal in the Ukraine War. The latter is a classic example of America’s not wanting to sanction India despite this belligerence, thanks to Modi’s ability to hypnotise Biden. But I do not think he can have his way with Trump.
The Other Parts of Global South
With a conman at the helm, the US is doomed.
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