US raises walls, EU to follow After the US turned away from free trade and imposed tariffs on most of the world - and in particular China, the EU got really scared that China now will flood Europe with cheap products it can no longer sell in the US. So the EU - founded as a champion of free trade - now looks poised to ‘going Trumpian’ and erect trade barriers against the Chinese inflow....
Lily357 is active as ever - providing three very helpful reminders on essential parts of geopolitical history. I will try to pick out major points as an appetizer - you should read all three! Middle East under UK/US control Her latest trilogy starts out with the story of how Britain took control of the Middle East oil in the wake of the collapse of the Ottoman empire. The British Navy switched from coal to oil by 1914....
The Decline of America Anusar Farooqi (‘Policy Tensor’) has provided an excellent discussion1 of how the decline of America come about and what can(?) be done to reverse it - and why Trump does not have the answers. He does not discuss who have been responsible for the decline or whether it could have been omitted. In my mind there is one culprit: liberalism. Let me explain: The Law of The Market Society Liberalism potently exploits egoism - calling for individual freedom (of enterprise) and forgetting the importance of collective values and equality of rights and endowments....