Trump said his tariffs on the three largest U.S. trading partners might cause Americans some short-term pain, but “long term, the United States has been ripped off by virtually every country in the world”.
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That aid to countries is what built the biggest economy in the world. (Along with the deal with Saudi to exploit their oil to boost the dollar) That Aid to countries got them to allow our companies to exploit their natural resources for far less than they were worth.
Trade deficits don’t matter at all compared to that. Our economy is 100% based on greasing palms to get what we want. And the more we alienate our “allies” the better BRICS looks. Especially if they add a military protection clause. America has a serious military but we can’t beat the original BRICS countries in a war, let alone the 40ish countries that have joined since.
Honestly panama should turn to BRICS and ask for a pact like NATO.
lol bet they don’t, if you haven’t been noticing, Russia is getting positively hammered by a previously untested Ukraine, on it’s own with Western supplied weapons
That’s a specific case. But America 1v5? And with China on their side while the American people are against it? As well as a lot of the American soldiers being against it? Yeah, america would get stomped. BRICS is also like 3.5 billion people.
You’re forgetting one key component. A war with the US will not be fought on the US mainland, but within the borders of its adversaries. The citizenry will become war weary very quickly, and many of their economies crippled. On the flipside, look how long American citizens will put up with losing conflicts. Until the oligarchs decide their through.
America simply doesn’t have a big enough military to cover that much territory tho. And you’re talking almost half of the world’s population. America’s greatest ability is it’s logistics. Logistics don’t work very well if you can’t easily access bases all over the world. And people defend their home country much more fiercely than imperialists attack. Look at Ukraine before they were given credit or Western weapons.
And again, were talking about some of our top trading partners. So the economy dies during this hypothetical. It’s not THEIR will to fight that fails, but ours.
