The US is absolutely NOT withdrawing from the world. If you believe that, you need to broaden your news horizons significantly.
What the US is doing is exiting from the European-centric New World Order where the WEF makes the rules and the US provides world security at US expense.
Trump is working to make the US self-sufficient - in energy, in technology, in labor, and in policy. The EU, and specifically the WEF and Davos folks have pushed for suicidal policies that, thankfully, Trump has withdrawn the US from, but which are going to destroy the great powers of Europe, along with Canada and Australia. Mass immigration, especially of Muslims, is literally destroying European countries, and while a few, such as the Netherlands and Poland have resisted, the UK, France, and Germany are being overrun, and the government punishes anyone who complains. Don't even get me started with Canada - it will be bankrupt within 2-3 years.
The WEF quite literally wants to depopulate the planet, leaving only half a billion people, which they figure are enough blue-collar slaves to keep their jets and yachts running and maintain their mansions and food supply, but they want to destroy the middle class completely. If this sounds like a conspiracy theory, you aren't wrong, except that the videos from Davos have been posted for years. They are worded with politically correct corporate speak, so they are dry and boring to listen to (ensuring that the lower and middle classes won't pay attention), but they are on YouTube for anyone to see.
Trump sees where that is going (to destruction!) and doesn't want the US to be any part of that. And that really pisses off the billionaire class who run Davos, because a strong, independent, self-sufficient US ruins all of their plans.
Oh, right, the US is a victim. Trump, by cancelling renewable energy is making the US "self-sufficient - in energy", by cancelling science funding he's making the US self-sufficient in technology...
The DHS is talking about deporting 100 million (mostly citizens) from the US, but "The WEF quite literally wants to depopulate the planet".
You're insane.
Please, cite some sources for these "facts" because it sounds like you are making crap up.
Trump hasn't "canceled" renewable energy, he's defunded the FEDERAL spending on it. There's already a ton of commercial renewable energy growth and state-level spending, and certainly what we have already isn't going away. The problem with "renewable" energy is that it's not reliable or schedulable. We're solving some of that problem by installing giant grid-level battery banks to smooth out the curve a bit, but it's never going to be able to be a sole solution. Energy demand is not a fixed level and certainly renewable energy does not have anything close to a steady, reliable output. It's great that we're able to divert a portion of our needs to renewables, but it will always only be a portion.
And this 100 million deportation figure is fully created out of nowhere. The number is closer to 10 million, and that's still less than the number that was allowed in just under the Biden administration.
Please! He's paid a company a billion dollars NOT to do wind energy.
"US to pay almost $1bn to French energy company to kill wind project plan"
www.theguardian.com/.../trump-administration-wind-project-plan
And the 100 million figure comes from the DHS. www.commondreams.org/.../100-million-deportations-bovino-plan That's the point: they're not satisfied with illegal immigrants, or even immigrants in general, they want the country to be 100% white.
Wind, Solar, and biomass make up more than 50% of German Electricity.
"Please! He's paid a company a billion dollars NOT to do wind energy."
Yes. Because the French economy cannot sustain itself on renewable energy - it's not nearly reliable enough or adjustable enough. Oil and gas can create energy on demand, which will keep the grid up and allow economic development. You can't run a business when the grid goes down because it is too cloudy or the wind isn't blowing - or when the wind is blowing too hard to run turbines.
These decisions are complex and nuanced and this article is taking everything at the absolutely surface level to promote their own agenda. While the facts given may be true, they intentionally omit the context that makes the decision much more sensible. But of course, to "green activists", oil and gas can never be sensible, no matter what damage its absence might do to an economy or even to the direct safety of its citizens.
And as for the DHS article, you need to read it more carefully. That quote came from ONE GUY who USED to be in the Trump administration but was fired. He has no influence on DHS anymore and what he stated was never DHS policy. Perhaps it was what he wanted personally, but who cares? He was shown the door.
Anyone can create outrageous-sounding headlines by cherry-picking quotes and omitting context, but that helps no one. You can't talk to me about official policy and then quote a guy who said something once and was fired. They're no where near the same thing.
@goaded
"Wind, Solar, and biomass make up more than 50% of German Electricity."
Yes, and Germany has massive energy problems as a result. Again, you omit the most relevant context. The reason why German energy prices have been sky high is because they closed down their nukes and tried to rely too heavily on unreliable renewables. I'm not saying renewables aren't or shouldn't be an important part of the overall energy solution, I'm merely saying that there's a limit to their usefulness. Things like mega batteries are improving that, but those are just getting started. Over time, I predict renewables will be able to replace a larger percentage of energy generation, but we aren't there yet. And Germany's economics are suffering mightily because of their idiotic energy policies - and they were strongly warned against them, and did them anyway.
Texas's energy problems are exactly because they relied too much on renewables, and in sustained severe weather, those renewables could not provide power, causing the grid to collapse. And so Texas is having to build more gas-powered peaker plants to provide power in those situations. I'm very familiar with Texas and it's power situation.
No it's not, it's because they refused to have interconnects to other states to use in emergencies out of a mistaken sense of independence and an equally mistaken belief that energy companies will work in the best interests of their customers, not themselves.
"Last year’s [2021] Winter Storm Uri contributed to more than 200 deaths and billions of dollars worth of damage, according to a Texas Department of State Health Services paper.
More than 60,000 outages have been recorded across Texas as of 10:30am EST today, according to PowerOutage US." www.the-sun.com/.../
"Data showed that failure to winterize traditional power sources, principally natural gas infrastructure but also, to a lesser extent, wind turbines, had caused the grid failure, with a drop in power production from natural gas more than five times greater than that from wind turbines"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
I agree with you Americans should be aware. Aside from premier CPUs/GPUs, Taiwan is a key transhipment hub.
Not so long ago ago, an Australian company was shipping antimony to a US company and Chinese authorities seized it and only released it to be shipped back to Victoria. The Chinese might be entitled to embargo its products from export to US, but it is scarcely entitled to embargo other countries exports to the US.
Critical minerals are called so because of their importance. Aside from transshipment of those elements, Taiwan supplies industrial machinery and petro-chemicals to US and the volume of trade through Taiwan increased over that from China during the trade wars. Taiwan is critical to US trade especially if China weaponizes shipping.
Doubtless there will be other areas that I am not aware of aside from controlling shipping to US and semiconductors.
I see much of what is happening - Panama, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran as a pre-War with China that will hopefully fake China out.
I'll be highly interested in your take as I expect you are more up with it.
To put it bluntly, I’d say that the chips aren’t the most important thing. The most important thing is clearly the first island chain. If China wins in Taiwan, then other Asian countries will try to strike deals with China, and the consequences could be absolutely devastating for the US. In fact, the US would end up losing its global dominance
China is a colossus, and the US no longer has the resources to wage a struggle against both China in Asia and Russia in Europe. They must make choices.
Trump is making the wrong ones; this war in Iran is a real disaster (look at the consequences for the US’s most important Asian allies) – he has got himself into a quagmire.
We need to be able to establish a regional balance.
Honestly, if I were Chinese, I’d feel just as ‘trapped’ by that chain of islands.
So it’s a very complicated balancing act.
But Trump isn’t making the right decisions.
Yes there is the first island chain as per WW2 but with an obvious twist. You are right right that if China can take Taiwan that puts South Korea and Japan in a difficult position and all the SE Asian countries.
Not so sure Iran is a mistake though. Suppose Trump hadn't. In not such a long time Iran would have nuclear bombs and more capable missiles. If the US was responding to Taiwan only wouldn't an untouched Iran be like leaving a fortress behind your lines in medieval times.
Potentially as soon as China struck, Iran could also strike with US unable to respond? Russia has fortunately run itself out. Would you agree Europe could handle Russia alone?
You don’t get nuclear weapons as easily as people like to imagine. And what did those strikes actually achieve? Did they end Iran’s nuclear program? Obviously not. In reality, it’s extremely hard to get that kind of result with conventional weapons and airstrikes alone.
Did they at least trigger a regime change? Nope, not that either.
Before Trump tore up the deal between the U. S. and Iran, the IAEA was in charge of technically verifying its implementation. From the moment the JCPOA came into force in January 2016 until the U. S. withdrawal in May 2018, the agency issued eleven consecutive reports confirming that Iran was sticking to its nuclear commitments.
At the time, the IAEA’s Director General, Yukiya Amano, repeatedly stated that Iran was under “the most robust nuclear verification regime in the world” and was meeting its obligations.
Despite all the political noise, the U. S. intelligence community maintained—right up until the 2018 withdrawal—that Iran was not pursuing prohibited nuclear weapons development activities.
• ODNI reports: In its 2018 annual threat assessment, U. S. intelligence stated that the JCPOA had increased transparency around Iran’s program and that Iran had not resumed key nuclear weapons design activities.
• Technical verification: Intelligence agencies relied both on IAEA data and their own monitoring capabilities to confirm the absence of secret enrichment sites during that period.
In the end, the U. S. burned through valuable resources for results that just don’t live up to the hype.
As for the rest, yes—Europe could hold Russia in check on its own. But that’s a matter of political will.
The US has twice the GDP with 1/3 of the population. Meaning the output per capita is roughly 6 times that of Chinese citizen. China is crippled by their regime. They're a "colossus" in that they have a lot of people. They will never be a real threat to the US until they change their regime. The Chinese are a more civil people and don't resort to cowardly tactics like hijacking airplanes, suicide bombings, or hiding behind women and children to fight the US. The US doesn't have to do anything. They learned that lesson with Russia. There is no need to fight communists directly, the battle was already won by being capitalist. Sooner or later, the flaws with communism will cut out their legs.
IF they do change their regime, they will no longer be regarded as a "threat", but more as a trading partner. Just like Japan was once considered a threat, but now they are an ally.
Atomic bombs are 1940's tech though and the principles are well known.
Most realistically I think we can only say we don't know since inspection is not possible. As centrifuges spin 50,000 to 100,000 rpm, any shock wave would do them no good. Especially when the MOP was designed to go down Fodor's ventilation shafts.
But are there some elsewhere? And metalization plants? How long will it take Iran to recover their atomic bomb program? A lot of dunno's and can't knows.
I would not under estimate the ability of being able to buy experience and make trades at the country to country level.
The first strikes against Iran’s nuclear programme date back to 1981; since then, attempts to destroy the programme have been unsuccessful. Of course, significant damage has been caused both now and in the past, but this has not been enough to achieve the ultimate objective
Immediately after the strikes, the Director General of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, stated that Iran could resume small-scale uranium enrichment within a matter of months, suggesting that the damage caused to the facilities was not irreversible. This statement highlighted the resilience of Iran’s underground infrastructure, designed specifically to withstand such attacks.
General Dan Caine, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged in a confidential briefing that the underground storage facilities in Isfahan were ‘buried too deep even for Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs to destroy’.
Trump himself destroyed an agreement that the Iranians were complying with.
So the ultimate objectives still haven’t been achieved, regional security has been destroyed, with soaring prices for oil, gas and likely the same for fertilisers, etc.
A waste of US military resources, just a figure
850 Tomahawks gone in 4 weeks. The Pentagon bought just 57 last year. At that rate, it would take 15 years to replace what was fired in a month!
Not so sure it means nothing should be done though. In reality if a country has uranium deposits and has enough financial resources and is willing to withstand trade sanctions than there is no real block to acquiring critical masses of fissile uranium. Not any real block to missiles either.
A lot of people criticized the agreement. It permitted Iran to enrich when if the objective was really civilian buying enriched uranium would have been adequate. It withdrew some important restrictions after 2030. Plus a country that is able to run a nuclear project is probably also able to be clandestine about it. In 2025 IAEA discovered the Irian regime was very clandestine.
The Iranian regime has had a strong desire for nuclear weapons since the 80's and is most likely to continue to attempt it. That doesn't mean we should accede.
There are levels of destruction. One level is to bring any halls and tunnels collapsing down, another would be to collapse entrances. A third would be to destroy any equipment. Ventilation shafts would imply that air fairly freely flows into and out of those shafts. So would shock waves you have to think.
I'm no general but I could see that thoughts might be that China isn't ready to go yet since they have recently found missiles were filled with water and senior command has been purged. Therefore it is better value to deal with a nearly nuclear armed adversary now than during a showdown with China. Not that I know anything, just hypothesizing :)
Against that Germany felt it had to go early in both WWI & WW2. So it is possible It could happen like that with China.
Most have no idea where is Taiwan. Why they are in anyway significant in relation to the US tech sector and trade.
they are not encourage to travel outside of their little town.
True, who else can make cheap trinkets like China and Taiwan can?
Taiwan can't actually, their working-hour is 4-5 times more expensive than China.
@DryGermanGuy Well historically Taiwan was known for cheaply made toys.
True, PRoC and RoC started on the same level. But now the differences are quite big.
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u The US gets involved in world affairs, and we are called bullies; :who do you think you are? The king of the world?" The US doesn't get involved, and we are called incredibly stupid.
Tired of Europeans hating on Americans while so desperately needing us.
When you say "The US" nowadays, if you're referring to the Trump Administration or the maga cult, you're talking about a bunch of fascist idiots who think the world revolves around them because they have buying power. But that buying power has diminished into dependence, and the top 3% can't keep the economy "buying" much longer, neither can the maga minions.
If you're talking about the rest of the country, there's not much recognition about real world events even among the more educated. The propaganda machine in the USA is so strong that people have no clue just how much they rely on imports from all over the world. Taiwan doesn't even come up in the conversation.
They have been withdrawn for over a hundred years that doesn't mean that they'll stop being bullied this could also be propaganda to just see how we're going to take it to prepare us for what they have coming up next just like covid the toilet paper scare all that shit
Taiwan is in Asia, not in America - therefore, different continent.
Most population are Chinese, not American, therefore - different ethnicity.
Historically speaking Taiwan is Chinese, never American - therefore, no historical claims.
So, no, it's not vital for USA at all, unless you think like an invader, colonizer, forceful occupier etc... such arrogant attitude in the future, can eventually cause WW3.
Why do so many frogs think they know what Americans think?
The US is not withdrawing from the world, and to think so is incredibly stupid. We are just helping the free world pull its collective head out of its collective ass and become strong nations like they used to be. You Frenchies have a lot to learn, but I think even you can start taking responsibility for yourselves again and stop making dumb decisions and relying so heavily on the US to protect you?
Taiwan is much more vital to China's interests than it is to the US. It's only a matter of time before it's a part of China and it will be a peaceful transition.
Peaceful transition?
Taiwan is the largest producer of computer chips. Even if the US can build enough factories to supply us with chips , it would be a tactical advantage if China were to take it over.
s they don't...
the only one reason why they have not been nuked out... that's because of America, lol
I was just thinking about this today.
We often talk about the Middle East and oil but not as much about Taiwan and semiconductors which might be more important then oil.
Because they are ignorant. Higher "Education" avoids this because it conflicts with their darling the PRC.
We don't overlook it... at least those of us intelligent enough to know what Taiwan is.
Well the USA is an incredibly stupid country. So there ya go. It's all very sensible.
@julie07 Agree, but many don't see it that way.
Hmm 🤔🧐 I'm not American and personally I don't see Taiwan as important - i even see it as part of China
Most Americans don't know what goes on in the world or how it actually works.
maybe because you can’t even provide us with a convincing argument
Not many people are well inform.
The war in Iran suggest otherwise.
Nah Taiwan has fallen out.
We don’t.
We don't.
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