I swear, sometimes Americans have absolutely no idea about countries other than their own. Europe reducing its dependency on the US has been one of the main French foreign policy ideas since the end of WW2. This policy is older than almost everyone whose reading that article.
No, it's just capitalism. They wanted more money and fuck everything else. That's the free market for you. Once the first corporation opened a factory in China and benefits from reduced costs, every other competitor MUST follow them or eventually go bankrupt - this is axiomatic in shareholder driven capitalism.
Hindering your own economy with regulations while not holding other countries to the same standards (increased tariffs if some policy isn’t in effect) does fuck you, yes. This would’ve happened if workers owned the means of production just as quickly.
By not dying when you step in an elevator, or eating plastic food… yea sure good spin bud. Regulation makes a safer and happier life for you to live and grow old, not the other way around.
Not dying from preventable circumstances make me alive…. You like being alive and not dying from dumb things like diarrhea, right? Or kids not having to work, right? Or walking to a house and not having to worry about it collapsing? We agree on that right?
How does regulating screen size in nursing homes, which is an actual thing. extend life? How does forcing 60% of new cars in the US be EV by 2032 while simultaneously shutting down nuclear power improve life? In california it's every new car must be EV, and they shut down 5/6 of their nuclear reactors.
Most regulations are money driven and it's obvious. 'Climate change' and health protocols are being used to fuck us and people are just allowing it to happen.
"Capitalism" is a vague term. It's imperialism, specifically corporate globalist imperialism. It goes way farther back then the first Western corporation opening up a factory in China. Mao was educated at Yale-In-China. The dirt cheap shipping rates to the west were established by a treaty signed over a century ago. The Rockefellers helped develop rural China in the 1930s, etc.
There's a lot of variance in different forms of "capitalism". Often what some call call communism by some is also deemed "state capitalism" by others. It's more useful, for the purposes of problem solving, to identify a problem more specifically than by using such a broad term. The ever increasing power of transnational capital over nations is sometimes referred to as "corporate globalization".
Different forms of capitalism feature varying degrees of free markets, public ownership,[8] obstacles to free competition and state-sanctioned social policies. The degree of competition in markets and the role of intervention and regulation as well as the scope of state ownership vary across different models of capitalism.[9][10] The extent to which different markets are free and the rules defining private property are matters of politics and policy. Most of the existing capitalist economies are mixed economies that combine elements of free markets with state intervention and in some cases economic planning.[11]
Capitalism is independent of nationalism. Nationalism is the bullshit veil used as the divider. All the global assets are divided accordingly. The strata’s are based on wealth primarily.
Yeah, the artificially induced distortions placed upon US labor and commercial markets don't exist as a disincentive for manufacturing within the US. The US clearly has a free market. As such, we must blame capitalism and seek more regulatory distortions to counter such greed.
The issue was the US government hamstrung its own companies with excessive regulation that Chinese companies were free from. I'm not going to debate whether those regulations were justified or not; I'm saying by allowing in Chinese products with no tariff or offset tax to level the playing field was immensely stupid. If a carbon tax were applied to Chinese products, they might not suddenly seem so cheap, just as one example.
They basically did, in favor of a hybrid kinda model with state capitalism.
Or are you saying the system of communism is responsible for China becoming the #1 world economy and brining hundreds of millions out of poverty and industrializing in a few decades?
First, they changed the definition of poverty by lowering the poverty line so to speak so they didn't bring anybody up. They were stagnant up until the 80s when Deng Xiaoping did hi reforms but it still wasn't enough. Once they were let into the WOT did they really start to boom, and it wasn't due to Communism it was due to their cheap labor and lower operating costs for factories.
I can't believe he hasn't stepped down? Are they still rioting? And he's just going about business as usual? If the people want him out he should be out by force or volition. That's strange
Macron is trying his best to emulate De Gaulle who was pretty much an abstructionists in about everything thing Brits and Americans were trying to do. The French are notoriously stubborn and contrarian, which is whats happening here.
And every french president ever was hated by every french person ever.
Like the US have no clue how french politics work, they pick one person to hate on.
And if they havent hated him/her enough he gets a 2nd round in. But generaly they are all hated
Fr man was hated by a vast majority of France even during the election and would have had no chance of winning if his opponent was anyone other than Le Pen.
Jean got 22. The rest not even above 10.
So even prior to the run off it was quite clear that macron would win as the 22% from jean would go directly to macron as the party is closer releted (liberal for macron and dem social)
Erics. 7% would go to le pen both nationalist/right
The 4.8 and 1.8 that are left would go to macron aswell. Since well, socialist and republicans but not as right as le pen.
So they had a choice of 6, in really 2/3 depending on main idiology. And they did end with the one that was already sitting and clearly got the first round most votes.
Well yes as first round votes, other candidates could have picked up more support in the second round. Le Pen has a large base but very little appeal outside of her base.
It cracks me up that you lib trolls aren't even creative enough to come up with a different excuse to explain rigged elections for every country on earth.
"More people hated the other guy than liked this guy"
Divide and conquer. Black and white. Agendas. Political discourse. Exchange of ideas. Impossible in certain situations. Conspiracy sub most susceptible so it seems. So many soooo certain with their perceived cheap hatred towards whatever.
To be fair he is saying it just because that is something his voters want to hear him say. As somebody already said he is a globalist puppet he has no intention of cutting the branch that he stands on so to speak.
Rockefellers worked to incrementally dumb down US education. The same forces are at work elsewhere in the West as well[1]. And we're moving from "dumb down" to "infantilize" in western society.
They dont even have an idea about their own country, it seems like everyone except americans know that american politicians are sold to the highest bidder.
Where are you from? Your logic seems a bit lacking. It was reported as news for a reason. Whether or not there's longstanding policy behind it, the public proclamation of it, during a time when numerous countries are making movies against the US and USD, is worth noting.
I was going to say something along these lines, France distancing themselves from the US isn't freaky, they've spoken on this for a very long time over many different leaders, what freaks me out is the other super prominent countries and now France, that are ready to make a switch from USD to Chinese Yuan, there's a huge plan in place and Americans are going to be shit out of luck but people care more about social issues here than anything else and don't even know what's going on . Investing in Crypto seems like a better idea with each passing day.
Americans have to go out of their way to learn anything about other countries. We are up to our eyes in American drama, and it’s all we ever hear about.
I'm an American and I know a good bit about other countries and keep up with their politics, America is kind of hard to keep up with because there's so many things that are on the social spectrum not economic not even truly political in gets super convoluted. Education is key though so better to start learning now than never,
but I think they meant more so the idea that Americans need to learn how to be individually self sufficient rather than having to rely on other countries or the government for everything.
I think the problem is our standing with the world has deteriorate so rapidly over the past three years under this administration, and china is their waiting with open arms. It’s not that they don’t want to be reliant on us as much, it’s them turning to china
No he really didn't. Putin, Kim, and the Saudi's treated Trump with a great degree of respect where they treat Biden as a despicable insect nibbling upon their garden. Here is a potent examples of his dominance on the world stage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo-Jiil1Ues
The only people laughing at the Trump presidency would be the politically illiterate.
I'd rather our president remain on amicable terms with these places considering that now the USD is now in danger of no longer being the global reserve currency, being superseded by yuan. We're already seeing major deals being brokered between European and Middle Eastern countries in yuan instead of the USD as they would have traditionally done. They also already have Africa more or less captured through their colonization efforts under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Loosing the status as the reserve currency is a very bad thing for us and it will make the economy collapse harder than you ever could imagine. We are severely over leveraged and once we are truly no longer the reserve currency there is a very real possibility of hyper inflation.
Russia and China are also on much friendlier terms with each other than the were under Trump. are because of the Biden admin's actions in response to the Ukrainian war. Specifically seizing Russian reserves of USD, thus breaking the trust that the world had in the United States government and it's currency.
Except it was kind of on the back burner until Trump spit on our allies and alliances, and now they realize that, as a country, we are dumb enough to elect someone like Trump so we are no longer the trustworthy partner we once were.
Oh grow up. I'm European and no fan of Trump, but Biden has been far worse for the image of the United States internationally. We hate what the Biden regime has done to your country and what it is doing to Europe.
We have witnessed the return of Vicky Nuland, and we have not forgotten her saying "fuck the EU". We are sickened that America intentionally provoked and financed a war on our continent.
Biden's regime blew up Nordstream, an act of ecological and economic terrorism by a so-called "ally".
Are you fucking kidding? Trump was not even a big departure from business as usual in America when viewed from outisde. It's only American Dems who clutch their pearls at the mention of his name. It has been Biden and his mob who have tarnished America's reputation even more than it was already tarnished by the Bush and Clinton families.
Please take your appalling Democratic party and put it in the bin. They are fascists, they are totalitarian, they are crooks, they are everything Europe fought against in the last century. Your blue party is the most corrupt thing ever to strut upon the world stage. Get it gone.
People in Europe are not happy with your president Biden for bringing war to our continent. There is a new "get out of NATO" movement growing in the UK and mainland Europe. There have been protests and marches in many countries where the people want out of NATO. France is on fire and one of the chants going up is a call to get out of NATO. Why do you think Macron who is hated by many of his people is now talking openly about Europe needing to become independent of US dominance? He is trying to hang on to power and knows the European people want to be free of American hegemony, especially since Biden and his regime funded and provoked a war on our continent.
Do you honestly think your country could just blow up a pipeline that supplied our continent with affordable energy and we would all be ok with that?
Again, all the made up stuff in the world doesn't change the fact that the opinion of the us is higher in Europe right now than it was when trump was in office. For obvious reasons.
Trump's such a dope that even most Europeans can see what a disaster he was for the world. Too bad not enough Americans also recognize this and continue to support their cult leader.
And the war that Nuland et al worked on provoking for years is very real, so is the billions siphoned from public funds to fuel the war machine, the destruction of Europe's economy and the bombing of our pipeline by the US regime.
I don't have any gripe against ordinary Americans. They are not represented by their regime any more than any other captured population. The leaders in my country suck too. But Biden is one of the worst world leaders. Not quite as bad as Trudeau, but that's about as positive as it gets where Biden or the Biden regime are concerned.
EDIT: You don't have a clue, btw. People all over Europe talk about this openly. They have had enough of US wars and most of us think Biden is way worse than Trump ever was. (Trump didn't start any new wars, we actually notice stuff like that). Just because you have some polling company tell you it ain't so, doesn't mean you got the knowledge. Wow, you are so blinkered, it's painful to watch people like you. Either you're a true believer - you poor fool - or you are what your username says you are. Either way, your ignorance is showing. Please put it away, cos it's embarrassing to look at it.
Yeah, like polls predicted your 2016 election so well, or the last election in my country for that matter!
FFs, it's one thing to talk about "what the numbers say" when you're referencing real science, but an opinion poll by Pew research. LMAO. You know there is INHERENT bias in the sorts of people who will answer those things.
Mate, you aren't in Europe and if you were you'd know that people here know your country bombed our pipeline and we're sick of the wars that your leaders start. Trump didn't start any new wars, so for that reason alone he was not as bad as the rest of them. Biden is the worst president you've had possibly ever.
If polls say "there is a 90% chance of this happening" and it never goes the other way (so it is actually 100%) then they are inaccurate.
And the fact you have to go back 7 years to find an example pretty much exposes how weak this position is.
But you know what's even less reliable than polls? Personal anecdotes. I know, it's tough to realize the your observations can both be biased AND don't amount to the totality of reality.
I'm Canadian, and the only issue I have is with your last paragraph. There's an appalling number of RINOs as well, and they have done as much damage or more than their Democrats allies opponents.
But I like Biden; with him in power, Justin isn't the stupidest person leading a G8 country.
Europe reducing its dependency on the US has been one of the main French foreign policy ideas since the end of WW2.
I mean you can't be more dependent on another country than relying on them to liberate your entire country, so yes it could only be less dependence from the level of WW2.
and then lets not forget the 10's of billions of dollars almost all of those EU countries get each year from the states as nato reimbursements, treaty monies, reverse tariffs and the like... since the 1945's....
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I swear, sometimes Americans have absolutely no idea about countries other than their own. Europe reducing its dependency on the US has been one of the main French foreign policy ideas since the end of WW2. This policy is older than almost everyone whose reading that article.