Excellent news. Military pay raises are inevitably linked to federal civilian employee pay raises... and linked further to COLA increases for federal retirees.
I think it’s a good goal, but I’ll be amazed if we ever get to zero tariffs on agricultural products. The EU ag community is simply too strongly entrenched to ever allow that. That being said, if we can get to zero on manufactured products, I think US industry will have a field day, given how inefficient most European industry is. Autos will be an interesting area. I don’t think US autos are competitive in Europe, not because of tariffs, but because of their style, type, and a perception of quality issues. But who knows, maybe we’ll all be surprised, and a substantial number of Europeans will buy US SUVs and pickups.
Bingo. Exactly right. Japan could have apologized well before they did. But they did apologize, mutltiple times. The problem is that successive Korean governments have allowed themselves to be held captive by a small group of hardcore anti-Japan zealots, for whom no Japanese apology will ever be sufficient.