**
This transition is the real pain Trump talks about. And of course he
uses everything he can to benefit from US previous theft in its
adaptation to a new world order - not under but with China.
$-freeloader
US is a ravenous criminal paper tiger kept standing by idiots
continuing to feed it despite it was already 1971 bankrupt because of
having embezzled from the world dollar for wars, arms race etc.
$-freeloader
US stole the world dollar 1971 by not only violating the gold standard
agreement made in Bretton Woods 1944, but also by US thereby getting
full control over the world dollar to use it only in the best interest
of itself (that's the order US Fed lives under). This meant that the
rest of the world since then has paid the difference, while the poorest
have been hurt the most.
Peter Klevius to those ignorant about
the consequences of US $-theft 1971: If a country has full authoritarian
dictatorship over the world dollar, paired with a stated aim (US Fed)
to use this solely for its own benefit, then there's a zero chance for
fairness for other countries locked into the system.
Negate every
word from the naked MAGA dictator - and you end up with what Peter
Klevius has deconstructed for many years: US demonizing* anti-China
propaganda is the signifier of US long running embezzlement.
Trump knows he can't beat China. Keep this in mind when you evaluate his moves.
US
appalling "democracy", "rules based order", "values" and war crimes
(last ones against some of the poorest and most frail people like
Palestinans, minorities in Syria, Yemenites, etc.), can only be
explained by the stolen dollar hegemony built on US deliberate choice
1971 to continue its embezzlement instead of bankruptcy. However, the
signs weren't always that visible for others because US - much like
embezzlers in general - tried to keep up a Potemkin village image. But
today the gloves are off and US makes its next humongous mistake (shared
by many of its s.c. "allies") by believing it could compete with China
by containing it while sucking value from other countries. However, this
path only leads to China even progressing faster in comparison and
therefore inevitably attracting others. Moreover, China is in every
aspect a better country than US, no matter we talk R&D, meritocratic
leadership with owerwhelming (qualified majority) support from the
people and an infrastructure the US can only dream about. And when it
comes to people freedom China is clearly ahead if one takes a closer
look behind the demagogy. Also, most people seem not to understand that
Trump's interest in Russia is just an other spect of US dollar hegemony
problem that China's success has put bare. For Trump the only thimg that
matters is to keep US afloat while trying to keep China at bay.
US
constant current account deficit is the product of US imports of goods,
services, and transfers - paid by stolen fiat dollar - that exceed US
exports, hence proving it is spending more on foreign trade than it is
earning. This reflects $-freeloader US economic cancer and therapy by
sucking from the global economy with the help of us stolen dollar
hegemony.
You cannot “Make Your Country Great Again” by avoiding superior Chinese R&D.
Western
car manufacturers went to China because of superior R&D and
manufacturing process. Teslas made in China are superior to Teslas made
in US. Same with European brands. 1987 President Ronald Reagan imposed
100 % tariffs on imported vehicles from Japan, which led to a reduction
in the trade deficit with Japan in the following years and Japanese
vehicle manufacturers starting extensive production in US. However, the
underlying reason was the superior quality of Japanese cars - although
not fully reaching the standard of cars made in Japan. Finnish tech
magazine TM made extremelt thorough comparison - incl. demounting
engines and measuring the wear on moving parts - between Toyotas made in
England vs Japan, and were able to see a distinct difference although
the Toyotas made in England were still better than average European mad
cars.
The main aim ought to be the will of the people - not the
name of the system. 2024 UK's Labour got 33.9% of active voters but 63%
of the seats - meaning it can rule anti-democratically in at least five
years. On top of this Labour then betrayed its poorest voters while the
party whip silences internal opposition.
This is why one party meritocracy outperforms one-party "democracy".
US
top economist and most experienced geopolitical analyst Jeffrey Sachs
seems to agree with Peter Klevius US analysis - while not mentioning
1971, though:
Trump aims to close the trade deficit by imposing
tariffs, thereby impeding imports and restoring trade balance (or
inducing other countries to end their rip-offs of America). Yet Trump’s
tariffs will not close the trade deficit but will instead impoverish
Americans and harm the rest of the world.
A country’s trade
deficit (or more precisely, its current account deficit) does not
indicate unfair trade practices by the surplus countries. It indicates
something completely different. A current account deficit signifies that
the deficit country is spending more than it is producing.
Equivalently, it is saving less than it is investing.
America’s
trade deficit is a measure of the profligacy of America’s corporate
ruling class, more specifically the result of chronically large budget
deficits resulting from tax cuts for the rich combined with trillions of
dollars wasted on useless wars. The deficits are not the perfidy of
Canada, Mexico, and other countries that sell more to the U.S. than the
U.S. sells to them.
To close the trade deficit, the U.S. should
close the budget deficit. Putting on tariffs will raise prices (such as
for automobiles) but not close the trade or budget deficit, especially
since Trump plans to offset tariff revenues with vastly larger tax cuts
for his rich donors. Moreover, as Trump raises tariffs, the U.S. will
face counter-tariffs that will directly impede U.S. exports. The result
will be lose-lose for the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Let’s
look at the numbers. In 2024, the U.S. exported $4.8 trillion in goods
and services, and imported $5.9 trillion of goods and services, leading
to a current account deficit of $1.1 trillion. That $1.1 trillion
deficit is the difference between America’s total spending in 2024
($30.1 trillion) and America’s national income ($29.0 trillion). America
spends more than it earns and borrows the difference from the rest of
the world.
Trump blames the rest of the world for America’s
deficit, but that’s absurd. It is America that is spending more than it
earns. Consider this. If you are an employee, you run a current account
surplus with your employer and a deficit with the companies from which
you buy goods and services. If you spend exactly what you earn, you are
in current account balance. Suppose that you go on a shopping binge,
spending more than your earnings by running up credit-card debt. You
will now be running a current account deficit. Are the shops ripping you
off, or is your profligacy driving you into debt?
“Trump blames
the rest of the world for America’s deficit, but that’s absurd. It is
America that is spending more than it earns.”
Tariffs will not
close the trade deficit so long as the fiscal irresponsibility of the
corporate raiders and tax evaders that dominate Washington continues.
Suppose, for example, that Trump’s tariffs slash the imports of
automobiles and other goods from abroad. Americans will then buy
U.S.-produced cars and other merchandise that would have been exported.
Imports will fall, but so too will exports. Moreover, new tariffs
imposed by other countries in response to Trump’s tariffs will reinforce
the decline in U.S. exports. The U.S. trade imbalance will remain.
While
the tariffs will not eliminate the trade deficit, they will force
Americans to buy high-priced U.S.-produced goods that could have been
obtained at lower cost from foreign producers. The tariffs will squander
what economists call the gains from trade: the ability to buy goods
based on the comparative advantage of domestic and foreign producers.
The
tariffs will raise prices for automobiles and wages of automotive
workers, but those wage hikes will be paid by lower living standards of
Americans across the economy, not by a boost of national income.
The
real way to support American workers is through federal measures
opposite to those favored by Trump, including universal health coverage,
support for unionization and budget support for modern infrastructure,
including green energy, all financed with higher, not lower, taxes on
the wealthiest Americans and corporate sector.
The federal
government does not cover its overall spending with tax revenues because
wealthy campaign donors promote tax cuts, tax avoidance (through tax
havens) and tax evasion.
Remember that the Department of
Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has gutted the audit capacity of the
IRS. The budget deficit is currently around $2 trillion dollars, or
roughly 6 percent of U.S. national income. With a chronically high
budget gap, the U.S. trade balance will remain in chronic deficit.
Trump
says that he will cut the budget deficit by slashing waste and abuse
through DOGE. The problem is that DOGE misrepresents the real cause of
the fiscal profligacy.
The budget deficit is not due to the
salaries of civil servants, who are being wantonly fired, or to the
government’s R&D spending, on which our future prosperity depends,
but rather to the combination of tax cuts for the rich, and reckless
spending on America’s perpetual wars. U.S. funding for Israel’s non-stop
wars, America’s 750 overseas military bases, the bloated C.I.A. and
other intelligence agencies and interest payments on the soaring federal
debt.
Trump and the congressional Republicans are reportedly
taking aim at Medicaid — that is, at the poorest and most vulnerable
Americans — to make way for yet another tax cut for the richest
Americans. They may soon go after Social Security and Medicare too.
Trump’s
tariffs will fail to close the trade and budget deficits, raise prices,
and make America and the world poorer by squandering the gains from
trade. The U.S. will be the enemy of the world for the harm that it is
causing to itself and the rest of the world.
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a
university professor and director of the Center for Sustainable
Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth
Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also president of the U.N.
Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the U.N.
Broadband Commission for Development.
Zelensky
and Netanyahu are war criminal twins who have knowingly upheld genocide
- Zelensky from 2019 against his own people, and Netanyahu against
people outside Israel.
Peter
Klevius: When Ukraine and Israel committed cultural and militaristic
genocide against Russians and Palestinians, US/West even supported it,
but when China detained islamist terrorists after they had made similar
attacks as Hamas/al-Aqsa Brigade did 2023, then this self-defense and
deradicalization education was called "genocide" and "human rights
violation"! Could anything be more hypocritical!
Western Zelensky huggers are ignorant - or worse!
When New York Times writes like it does below, then you ought to understand the reality is much worse.
Key Takeaways From America’s Secret Military Partnership With Ukraine
An investigation by The New York Times has revealed that America was woven into the war far more than previously known.
By Adam Entous
March 30, 2025
The
war in Ukraine is at an inflection point, with President Trump seeking
rapprochement with the Russian leader, Vladimir V. Putin, and pressing
for an end to the fighting.
But for nearly three years before Mr.
Trump’s return to power, the United States and Ukraine were joined in an
extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and
technology whose evolution and inner workings have been known only to a
small circle of American and allied officials.
With remarkable
transparency, the Pentagon has offered a public accounting of the $66.5
billion in weaponry it has supplied to Ukraine. But a New York Times
investigation reveals that America’s involvement in the war was far
deeper than previously understood. The secret partnership both guided
big-picture battle strategy and funneled precise targeting information
down to Ukrainian soldiers in the field.
Here are five takeaways from the investigation.
A U.S. base in Wiesbaden, Germany, supplied the Ukrainians with the coordinates of Russian forces on their soil.
The
idea behind the partnership was that America’s close cooperation with
Ukraine would compensate for Russia’s vast advantages in manpower and
weaponry. To guide the Ukrainians as they deployed their
ever-more-sophisticated arsenal, the Americans created an operation
called Task Force Dragon.
The secret center of the partnership was
at the U.S. Army garrison in Wiesbaden, Germany. Each morning, U.S. and
Ukrainian military officers set targeting priorities — Russian units,
pieces of equipment or infrastructure. American and coalition
intelligence officers searched satellite imagery, radio emissions and
intercepted communications to find Russian positions. Task Force Dragon
then gave the Ukrainians the coordinates so they could shoot at them.
Military
officials worried that it might be unduly provocative to call the
targets “targets.” Instead they were referred to as “points of
interest.”
U.S. intelligence and artillery helped Ukraine quickly turn the tide against the Russian invasion.
In
spring 2022, the Biden administration agreed to send High Mobility
Artillery Systems, or HIMARS, which used satellite-guided rockets for
strikes up to 50 miles distant.
In the war’s first year, the
Ukrainians were extremely dependent on the Americans for intelligence,
and Task Force Dragon vetted and oversaw virtually every HIMARS strike.
The
strikes caused Russian casualty rates to soar, and Ukraine’s 2022
counteroffensive was largely successful: By December, the Ukrainians
held an unlikely, David-versus-Goliath upper hand against their Russian
foe.
The Biden administration kept moving its red lines.
From
the first, administration officials sought to lay down a red line:
America was not fighting Russia; it was helping Ukraine. Still, they
worried that steps taken to accomplish that might provoke Mr. Putin to
attack N.A.T.O. targets or perhaps make good on his nuclear threats.
Even as the administration developed an ever-greater tolerance of risk
to help Ukraine meet the evolving threat, many of the most potentially
provocative steps were taken in secret.
Easing a prohibition
against American boots on Ukrainian ground, Wiesbaden was allowed to put
about a dozen military advisers in Kyiv. To avoid drawing public
attention to their presence, the Pentagon initially called them “subject
matter experts.” Later the team was expanded, to about three dozen, and
the military advisers were eventually allowed to travel to Ukrainian
command posts closer to the fighting.
In 2022, the U.S. Navy
was authorized to share targeting information for Ukrainian drone
strikes on warships just beyond the territorial waters of
Russian-annexed Crimea. The C.I.A. was allowed to support Ukrainian
operations within Crimean waters; that fall, the spy agency covertly
helped Ukrainian drones strike Russian warships in the port of
Sevastopol.
In January 2024, U.S. and Ukrainian military
officers in Wiesbaden jointly planned a campaign — using
coalition-supplied long-range missiles, along with Ukrainian drones — to
attack about 100 Russian military targets across Crimea. The campaign,
named Operation Lunar Hail, largely succeeded in forcing the Russians to
pull equipment, facilities and forces in Crimea back to the Russian
mainland.
Ultimately, the U.S. military and C.I.A. were allowed to help with strikes into Russia.
The
hardest red line was the Russian border. But in spring 2024, to protect
the northern city of Kharkiv against a Russian assault, the
administration authorized the creation of an “ops box” — a zone of
Russian territory within which U.S. officers in Wiesbaden could provide
the Ukrainians with precise coordinates. The box’s first iteration
extended across a wide swath of Ukraine’s northern border. The box was
expanded after North Korea sent troops to help fight the Ukrainians’
incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. The U.S. military was later
allowed to enable missile strikes in an area of southern Russia where
the Russians staged forces and equipment for their offensive in eastern
Ukraine.
Longstanding policy barred the C.I.A. from providing
intelligence on targets on Russian soil. But the C.I.A. could request
“variances,” carve-outs to support strikes for specific objectives.
Intelligence had identified a vast munitions depot in Toropets, 290
miles north of the Ukrainian border. On Sept. 18, 2024, a swarm of
drones slammed into the munitions depot. The blast, as powerful as a
small earthquake, opened a crater the width of a football field. Later,
the C.I.A. was allowed to enable Ukrainian drone strikes in southern
Russia to try to slow advances in eastern Ukraine.
Political disagreements in Ukraine contributed to the 2023 counteroffensive’s collapse.
The
2023 counteroffensive was meant to build momentum after the first
year’s triumphs. But after the partners held war games in Wiesbaden and
agreed on a strategy, the plan ran headlong into Ukrainian politics.
The
Ukrainian armed forces chief, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, embraced the plan,
whose centerpiece was an assault in the direction of the southern city
of Melitopol that would cut off Russian supply lines. But his rival and
subordinate, Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, had his own plan — to impale
Russian forces in the occupied eastern city of Bakhmut. The Ukrainian
president, Volodymyr Zelensky, sided with him and divided up the
ammunition and forces between two main fronts instead of one. The
Ukrainians never did reclaim Bakhmut, and within months, the
counteroffensive ended in failure. Russia now had the upper hand.
Adam Entous is a Washington-based investigative reporter focused on national security and intelligence matters.
Peter Klevius started as an empty
origo/singularity whose existencecentrism (mind) now is the sum of his
experience with his surroundings and due synaptic adaptations, while
also constituting part of the surroundings of others. A canvas which
doesn't have a soul/self of its own but does reflect what it has
experienced and adapted to. However, the false impression of having a
"self", "free will" etc. rests on language, i.e. the use of the word 'I'
which animals and humans without language lack. As a human with
language you are in the same position as Peter Klevius, and together we
all (incl. non-language humans) make up the total existencecentrism of
humankind - and the key to a universal human with (negative) Human
Rights without irrational exceptions and impositions. So when Peter
Klevius talks/writes/acts, he does so against a background that includes
the latest synapses combinations in his brain as well as what his other
nerve signals bring to his thalamus from his body and other
surroundings.
Peter
Klevius (1981, 1992): The ultimate question ought to be: What is it
like to be a stone? There's no difference between human consciousness
polished through living, and the "consciousness" of a stone that has
been smoothly shaped in streaming water against other rocks, stones etc.
It started its "life" as a rugged piece of rock in a mountain and
adapted to its life in streaming water down hill, or perhaps as a piece
of rock falling on a beach and polished by waves.
How US robs the world
