Friends + Interlocutors,

Now the 78 year-old enfant terrible DJ Trump has parachuted onto the scene and launched an all-out trade war against China. It is sending Japan into the arms of China! Such are the unintentional albeit predictable repercussions of Washington's madmen foreign policies.

Actually, I’m in favor of both repercussions. Russia should be a friend of China. It makes all the sense in the world and is not a threat to the peace of the world. But Russia should also be a friend to Europe, which it was prior to Joe Biden’s and GW Bush's idiocy. Or more correctly, the idiocy of their foreign policy teams. Both men were subpar, to put it mildly.

Please understand, Washington did not want Russo-Euro friendship under any circumstances for its own selfish reasons. Egocentric Washington wanted to “own” Europe and not have it connected to Russia economically. Can you  imagine what a dynamic entity a European-Russian entente might be? All those raw materials, all that free trade, all that manufacturing. Then you add China to the mix!

And Japan, ideally, should be in an alliance with China. Again, it makes sense. These are the two economic powerhouses of SE Asia, indeed of the world. The idea of pitting Japan against the so-called “China threat” (which is bogus to begin with) could destroy the world or at least the world’s economy if a war eventually breaks out in East Asia. Yet that is the current Washington policy.

Certain lunatics within the Washington foreign policy blob actually contemplate such a war. Uncle Sam, or rather the Neocons/Neoliberals who have kidnapped Uncle Sam, should, for the good of humanity, crawl back under the rocks whence they came, and let humanity evolve and survive free of artificial, unnecessary conflicts. Otherwise, we’re sunk.

Patrick

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