US vs. China: Economic Warfare & Historical Power Plays
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Is the US throwing grenades at global trade routes while China champions pure business? This compelling analysis unpacks current geopolitical dynamics, drawing striking parallels to America's own economic ascent and foreign policy evolution at the turn of the 20th century.
Discover how a post-Civil War oversupply of goods fueled US expansionism, leading to interventions and wars to secure new markets for its burgeoning industries. Uncover the controversial strategies that cemented the dollar's global reserve status, including how the US leveraged World Wars to 'bankrupt' European powers by demanding gold.
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Correct me if you think I'm wrong, but seems like the US wants to like toss grenades into the birthday party and just blow up all the trade routes. Blow up, you know, tariffs, sanctions, you know, bombs, regime change and China is trying to say, no, we just want to do business with the world. We just want to export, export, export because that's their advantage right now. Uh does that make sense? Or where would you add or agree or disagree with that assessment? That's generally uh absolutely what's happening. I I would even uh go down to a little bit deeper than that, Mike, and that uh the the we're how Donald Trump is behaving right now is very similar and where China is is also very similar to uh when William McKinley was president in the United States and Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders and, you know, the US did not have a muscular foreign policy until the end of the 19th century because something happened after the Civil War and once, uh, you know, reconstruction of the South uh was underway, and suddenly and also mass migration flows from the South to the northern ...
