The president of “Make America Great Again” is one more time Some old days in his chaotic search for this never defined national greatness. And once again, Donald Trump is embarrasing what really is (Was it?) A great nation.
With punitive rates this week, the beginning is marking not in his fiancee “Golden age” But a global commercial war. As expected, consumers and companies are collateral damage, suddenly they face higher prices, layoffs, depressed retirement accounts and recession fears. Some “Day of Liberation”.
Separately, Trump supervises migrant summaries, arrests and deportations that lack the appearance of due constitutional process. His agents are sweeping legal residents in their opaque networks, labeling the entire lot not identified as terrorists and sending most of them by PLANOADS to a Salvadoran megaprison. Dozens of families beg that the government is wrong, and this week the Trump administration did it unusually grant to an “administrative error”: he told a federal judge that he wrongly caught a 29 -year -old Maryland man After leaving the job and picked up his 5 -year -old son, who has autism.
And yet, the same government of the United States who pays El Salvador Millions to do his dirty job, and whose president is a strong man aspiring, he told the court that he cannot get Kilmar Armando Abrego García from the foreign prison and back to Maryland.
Less noticed in the midst of economic chaos and extrajudicial deportations is another parody that hits the base of the country's proud legacy as a world leader, he World leader: From World War II: The sordid and transactional neocolonial attempt of transactional transactional of extorting Ukraine of its wealth of oil, gas, critical minerals and elements of the rare earth as a reimbursement of the support of the United States in the defense of the Ukrainians against the invasion of Russia.
Americans may be distracted, but foreigners and global market observers have noticed. As the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, resists Trump's latest unilateral demands, which fell on Friday, the head of Bloomberg News was “the United States seeks to control Ukraine's investment, squeezing Europe.” More colored, the telegraph of London reported“America holds the gun in Zelensky's head with unprecedented repair demands.” Your aforementioned article Alan RileyAn expert in global energy law in the Atlantic Council, who condemned the proposal as “an expropriation document” and added: “I had never seen something like that before.”
Certainly, nothing has been seen since 1948, when the United States solidified its postwar leadership and the good global will with the global will with the Marshall Plan, that rebuilt Europe devastated by war, including former enemies. For four years, President Truman and Congress provided bipartisan aid approximately equivalent to $ 175 billion today. All the time, American politicians persuaded Americans that the help they were paying was not disinterested or a raffle: by reviving Europe, the United States was recovering markets for their products and stabilizing democratic allies to resist future world wars.
As the lawyer of the law declared, Secretary of State George C. Marshall Jr., the program reflected “a disposition by our people to face the vast responsibilities that history has clearly put in our country.”
How far we have fallen. It would have to go back several centuries, when European powers colonized and looted Africa, Asia and America, to find the unfortunate model of Trump's attempt to extract Ukraine resources (and Greenland) valued in billions of dollars. But it is worse considering that Ukraine, a democratic ally, has shed his own blood and treasure to resist and weaken Russia, an American adversary, and only ask for help, not troops, to keep the line against the possible dreams of Tsar Vladimir Putin empire.
To be fair, Trump is possibly Follow up in Zelensky Obertures Last year, to the Biden administration for the cooperation of US-UKRAINE in the development of minerals and energy wealth in their country. But Zelensky's offer was always in exchange for an American guarantee of his safety, perhaps the NATO membership or American maintenance troops. Trump has refused to accept that.
The tension on a security guarantee was behind the Oval Office of the February Vice President of Trump and Vice President JD–In that humiliated Zelensky and became ill to the allies. That debacle derailed a mineral agreement, but the negotiations resumed in recent weeks. After all, Zelensky does not have many options: “You don't have the cards,” Trump made fun of him.
This is true: the future of Ukraine is based on the help of the United States, despite Europe's conversation to fill the void.
The proposal of 55 pages of Trump requires a controlled investment fund by the United States to develop Ukraine resources, including minerals such as lithium and titanium that are essential for electric cars and other products based on modern technology. From the middle of all the income of Ukraine, it would have to pay the United States for all last aid, none of which was provided in such terms, and most of which were destined to the US defense plants. UU. For the weapons, more 4% of interest.
All without security guarantee of the United States for Ukraine. And, like Trump's alleged peace conversations with Russia, the proposed mineral agreement cuts to the most unconditional European allies in Ukraine, who, unlike their repeated falsehoods, have contributed collectively to Ukraine that the United States, not asking for anything in return.
On Sunday, Trump told journalists that Zelensky is “trying to go back” to an agreement. He added, as effect, “if he does that, he has some problems. Great and big problems.”
Yes, Zelensky has big problems. But he and his country have their pride. Which is more than the United States will stay if Trump goes out with his.
@Jackiekcalmes
