Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I don’t care what India does with Russia. They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care. We have done very little business with India, their Tariffs are too high, among the highest in the World. Likewise, Russia and the USA do almost no business together. Let’s keep it that way, and tell Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he’s still President, to watch his words. He’s entering very dangerous territory!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114945847973193713
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev responded to United States President Donald Trump on Thursday, reminding him “of how dangerous a ‘dead hand’ that does not exist in nature can be” in likely reference to Russia’s Perimeter nuclear weapons control system.
Medvedev made his remarks in response to Trump calling him a “failed former president” and telling him to “watch his words” earlier today. “If certain words spoken by the former president of Russia provoke such a nervous reaction from such a formidable US president, then Russia is completely in the right and will continue on its path,” Medvedev wrote on Telegram.
Modi has been good for the Indian economy, but has a miserable human-rights record. Seems to have given Christian persecution a wink and a nod.
Next time, he should let Pakistan, India, and China sort it all out between themselves.
Start sending back all these goddamned Indians, then.
Trump is working hard to break up cohesion among the BRICS nations. He needs to get the “I” out of the coalition.
The BRICS nations want to create a dollar free trade zone. They are funding Russia’s war in Ukraine via oil purchases. None of the countries buy much in the way of US exports.
India shouldn’t be buying Russian oil or military equipment. Among the BRICS, there still isn’t a big internal consumer market to exploit yet.
Trump is upset because Putin told him that if or when sanctions are reduced or ended, that western companies that left will not be returning or competing in Russia with the home nation’s companies. There will also be no NGOs or other organizations allowed if normalization of relations occurs.
Trump wanted to bring US Corporate interests (CIA) back into Russia and undercut home grown companies.
Once Trump understood that normalization of relations would not give the US a financial footing inside Russia, he has cvhanged his tune.
Now Trump has been reduced to threatening the world. Only China nad Russia have stood up to Trump’s threats. China simply cut automative, military and rare earths/magnets off and Trump capitulated, but Trump never STFU.
It’s us that tries hard to export to them, specifically weapon systems.
We overplayed and oversold our hand with the sanctions. Russia isn’t Trinidad or Guatemala.
1.) our economic significance on the world stage has been diminishing since the 60s when it once was over 40% of the global GDP. Today it’s half that.
2.) the advent of China changes everything. In fact, as we sanction, they come in behind us and swoop up the market as in Russia where you now see Chinese cars and other goods and services once from the EU, US or Japan. That market share for our business is gone, forever.
3.) Russia don’t sell plastic vibrators on Amazon. They sell gas and oil, titanium, food, fertilizer. Things that fill needs, not wants. Russia’s share of the global market in many of these areas is significant, it is difficult, if not impossible to cut them out entirely without causing major problems for others that rely on them.
For example, 25% of the global wheat production: https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/101591/ssoar-russanald-2024-318-melkadze_et_al-Russias_Wheat_Exports_Recent_Structural.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y&lnkname=ssoar-russanald-2024-318-melkadze_et_al-Russias_Wheat_Exports_Recent_Structural.pdf
Our sanctions are marginally effective and us trying to clamp down only makes things worse for us and our allies. Why?
China will see growth, filling the void we create. Go to Russia today and Chinese cars are everywhere. Instead of EU, Japanese and US brands, you simply have the Chinese fill the void.
The harder we push, the more we push nations like India and Brazil towards Russia and China. I think some folks here are going to be surprised who India chooses if we push hard enough.
