Gas Stations preparing by adding another digit on the board.
Meanwhile, US gas prices have smashed another all time high today for the 12th day straight.
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Gas Stations preparing by adding another digit on the board.
Meanwhile, US gas prices have smashed another all time high today for the 12th day straight.
AssassinsMace
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Jim Sciutto is a weirdo. I don't know why he's clarifying Biden's statement to make it not as aggressive. He wrote a book on China and when he was promoting it, he was charging that China is out to kill Americans plain and simple. He's one of those people that at one time you might see as promoting good relations between the US and China but then when mood changes hawkish in the US, they blow with the wind. You can say the same with Naill Ferguson. I saw someone in here bring up economist Fred Bergsten for taking a non-hawkish view on China right now. Well before that he was an anti-China hawk when it came to economics. And before that he was a bull on US/China relations because he was one of the engineers of APEC.
First they pissed away their strategic oil reserves and now they want to do it on diesel reserves lol. Trump filled those back up to the brim and Neocons coming in with a sledge hammer to drain the state coffers. The White House said it will take several years to refill the oil reserves… at inflated prices.
Nah, president vegetables isn't as gullible or stupid as the Ukrainians.
She very much know how bad things would be if she answered or did stuff like what the US wanted, in fact she has even been kind of quiting down on independence rhetoric and actions lately while the US has been ramping up. And there's apparantly also some internal resistance against her (from the people in the independence party).
Makes sense. These guys aren't MIC people. An actual war would mean they would end up on the streets.
Well, 75% those are treaty MDT allies, MNNAs, or military dependencies, the other remaining 25% (Indonesia/Vietnam/Malaysia/India) are non-aligned. Among those, only India didn't sign on to RCEP, whereas everyone else did (including all US alles)
Let's talk when the actual thing is signed by the U.S. into a legally binding agreement because with the upcoming election coming up (midterms) this November and the general election in 2026 it's a long way to go before anyone here with a modicum understanding of American history would be able to either crow about this dog and pony show.
Where is the TPP? Build Back Better World? The vaccine diplomacy?
Meanwhile, RCEP has actually been implemented already beginning this year which means countries on the agreement can have some quantitative and qualitative data to compare and contrast what America's offers, advantages would be if there's any at all. The ASEAN countries who have signed up on this recently announced economic initiative can use their RCEP receipts as leverage to negotiate for concessions with America. The question then is America in the right economic health to afford all these commitments, promises it's making to literally every country in the world all in the name of maintaining their hegemony of the world? With what money?
Also, why are you acting surprised? and forgive me for asking this question, are you actually concern about this deal? If so why and explain if you don't mind your thoughts as to why that's the case.
I thought that only the usual US lapdogs would sign. It seems that they managed to trick some more countries
It also seems that ASEAN countries are quite desperate to have the US somehow involved in Asia-Pacific to try to balance Chinese influence in the region
No. As I posted in another thread, IPEF is hot garbage.
It doesn't offer any lower trade barriers. "Creating rules, regulations etc" don't matter that much if you don't further open up your market to your "allies"
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