No, that is not a spelling error in the title. A trade war is now under way. Some may argue that a trade war has been under way for years but that depends on what one defines as a trade war. Bantering and bartering over trade deals and playing tricky games has always been par for the course. Just because some powerful brokers sometimes play tariff chicken does not make it a war. The money-whore MSM amp up the rhetoric on the smallest issues if it draws in ad consumers.
However, unlike the gradual loss of jobs and manufacturing over decades which led to the current potentially precipitous economic and social conditions in the USA and other western nations, Trump's attempt to radically reorganise the playing field so very suddenly and rapidly is creating war-like conditions but, personally, I do not think he really has another choice if he wants the USA to recover from the globalist glut of cheap crap that lasts only as long as a pay-cheque. Doing this slowly would give the globanksters and their useful idiots too much time to plan and execute more of their nation-ending evil endeavours. However, the timing could not be more prescient in as far as a pending actual hot war is concerned. Kinetic wars have started over smaller things and, given the far-reaching effects of radical, demonically-driven ideologies and religions which have possessed the minds of hundreds of millions around the world along with the concomitant political and social upheavals, even the talk of war may escalate the conditions that could trigger a properly kinetic war. That is why I say that this trade war really is a trade war.
Can you imagine how hot under the collar Xi has become with China facing something like one hundred-plus percent tariffs in one of their largest markets? Remember that China holds the USA to ransom because they own so much of the American debt. Although I abhor communism and all the devil-inspired "isms", I would not blame Xi and his cohorts for eyeing off the American continent as the means to extend their dominion, especially that huge chunk north of Mexico. Energy is the real money and the USA has a hell of a lot of it, among other resources, under its gardens, beaches and parks. If China can get control of the USA, Taiwan and perhaps Japan, then, for all practical purposes, China will control modern tech. Now there's a scary thought!
"What about the EU and Germany?", you may ask. What about them? They are so completely bogged down in leftist lunacy that it is a wonder that anything useful happens over there any more, except for perhaps a few nations which, in relatively recent years, have done a sudden about-face in revolt against the morally-abysmal woke plunge. Then there's the rest of us, such as myself in Australia, wondering where all the industry went. We had a thriving and growing tech industry here in the 1970's but successive governments put an end to that... once again driven by mostly Marxist ideology, even though folks at the time did not recognise it as such. Makes it seem like the bankster plan has been in place for a very long time but I think that it's been the spiritual "powers of the air" which had so much to do with the demise of Australia's tech industries, in parallel with the steep moral decline, all part of the deindustrialisation process on the road to poverty and starvation. We don't even build cars here, anymore, as of some years ago. It all disappeared along with hundreds of other satellite businesses which depended on the automotive industry for their own survival. All of that accumulated, solid experience, knowledge and skill quickly sublimated like dry ice in the Sahara and we'll probably never get it back. Idiot leftist (but I repeat myself) politicians and the enviro-whacko rent-a-cretin crowd simply do not understand basic economics... or ethics... or science... or biology... or politics... or theology... or humanity... or reality... or et cetera.
Tautologies aside, what will the powerful non-Americans do? We know what the weaker ones will do, such as those in my own country, with a leftist prime sinister whinging that ten percent tariffs just aren't fair! There's nothing new about tariffs. They were imposed by numerous previous presidents for one reason or another... and now Trump but, because of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), it is apparently "bad" when he does it. Seems that what I wrote in that post back in 2017, regarding the future complete political and social splitting apart of the USA, really is coming to pass, at least in some form, anyway, but there's nothing to be gleeful about in all of this.
Personally, I am not concerned about tariffs. We all need to learn to live within our own countries again, but I am quite concerned about the extreme rhetoric of the left, even the formerly moderate left. Normalising the destruction of other people's property just because you hate the manufacturer, and the publication on social media of open invitations to the assassination of the current sitting president of the USA, particularly with no criminal charge consequences, are alarming trends. Satan is no longer really hiding his true colours (darker than complete darkness) and only because enough people have sold out their souls and sided with the enemy of life and God and humanity, thus emboldening that spirit to begin to really "come out". That tells me one thing - the son of perdition is soon or about to be made manifest. Who is he? Or is he actually a she? These days one often cannot tell. If he turns out to be transgender, would you be surprised? Would anyone?
Anyway, that was an adequate rant for now. As always, trust only God. In Christ is an eternal future, but in fallen man there is only death. So, trust not man. Put faith in God. A relationship with Christ is an investment with an unbounded, eternal payoff.
