A few years ago I was representing an organization in the USA at a European meeting of similar organizations. There was one representative for each country.
The attendees were complaining about professional licensing regulation changes in their respective countries. I added to the conversation my difficulty in that I am dealing with 50 different state licensing regulations.
They replied that I am the elephant in the room. My organization was bigger than all of their organizations combined. It took me a while to comprehend their statement, but I finally did.
Trump realizes that USA is the elephant in the world. While we are not the largest either in geographic area or population, we are synchronized in our development.
If the USA flexes its muscle, we could easily crush most countries without trying. I am extremely grateful that Trump is using economic muscle rather than military muscle, but he has both at his disposal.
Trump is the first President that understands economic warfare. Thankfully he is using it for good.
Solid point @24
Trump understands economics at a level the talking heads on television can only dream about. His use of economic actions up to and including tariff’s has been nothing short of brilliant.
The man can play the game. It is sad that more people do not see this nor do they understand just how wrong our “conventional wisdom” has been across the board.