And when the USM has no friends left we'll all know whose fault that is.
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2025
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I assume Saab is greatly appreciating their new salesman.
And just like that, Lockheed stock dumped 6%.
The easiest way to make money on the market is volatility and predictability. Seeing as how Trump is so easily manipulatable and has no filter and his stupid declarations have such massive effects on the market, I wouldn't be surprised if someone is seeding him shit just to play the markets
Lol
This has almost always been true, we just don't say it out loud. Our top military tech has a "home" version and an "export" version.
Every country does that when exporting military tech.
I imagine that countries that have purchased jets from the US have some of their own equipment they install post sale that the US does not officially know about.
The US does servicing on their jets so unlikely.
Unless you're Israel.
Europe already has decided not to buy weapons from the US. Making great deals there Trump!
His tactics are easily exploitable: see Russia. It is hard to figure out if his administration has any kind of strategy in terms of geopolitics or geoeconomics.
On the one hand you have to take Trump seriously because he is dangerous, on the other he definitely is an idiot.
The strategy is doing putins bidding as krasnov
That isn't strategy.
I am referring to the fact that Trump seems to want America to be a manufacturing base, but does he have a plan to achieve this, beyond creating developing world conditions in the USA? He might be able to create conditions within the US where labour and environmental costs are cheap enough to be competitive with India or China, but is that actually his aim?
If he wants the US to be a manufacturing base he/his administration would need a much weaker dollar, which would necessitate at least various countries selling their dollar reserves. Does he want people to buy bitcoins as a strategic reserve rather than, say, Yuan? Does he realise that encouraging countries to give up on the dollar as global reserve currency is forcing the US to pay its debts finally? Is really an admission of defeat for the US, and the end of the US empire?
The fascism/racism seems innate to his personality rather than anything strategic, but why look to destabilise Europe into it rearming itself away from US arms manufacturers? He can't expect countries to view the USA as anything beyond a competitor to China or India after this, can he?
Is his interest in Canada and Greenland simply because he has been told that sea ice is collapsing and the Arctic is going to be of strategic importance going forward? Or is he looking to start some kind of hot world war in order to try and recreate the conditions post WW2, where I could easily see his idea of a 'GREAT' America might have come from?
The strategy is to turn all of americas allies against it and become subservient to putin