Under Trump, America Strongest Since the End of World War II

No one country or people are more unhappy about this than the treasonous Democrats.

Under Trump, America May Be Its Strongest Since the End of World War II

By Bryan Preston, PJM, January 18, 2020:

You won’t hear this from the media, but America under President Trump is doing well. Very well, in fact. A true read of the state of our union is simple: We’re strong and we’re getting stronger fast.

The labor participation rate is breaking records. Unemployment is at historic lows across all demographics. Wages are increasing, faster for those at the lower income levels than for those at the top. China has agreed to a historic trade deal. Congress (finally) passed the new US-Mexico-Canada trade deal which will create jobs across the continent. The stock market keeps breaking records despite impeachment. There’s almost too much good news to pack into one paragraph. It all points to growing American strength just a few years after President Barack Obama mused aloud about a “post-American world.”

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At the end of the Second World War, the United States was by far the strongest nation on earth. In fact, it was the strongest nation ever. But the playing field was littered with craters.

Europe had been ravaged by war from one end of its continent to the other. Its major powers either lie in ruins (Germany, Italy, and France) or had expended vast sums to prosecute the war (Great Britain, the USSR) and lay in partial ruins. Cities in all of the major European countries were fractured and devastated, their manufacturing turned to wartime footing and then, if they were among the Axis Powers, crushed by allied might. In Asia, China and South Korea had yet to rise. Japan was as devastated as the major European powers.

The United States stood alone, relatively unscathed by the war, its manufacturing base which had been retooled for war now easily turned back to peacetime production. With millions of soldiers returning from overseas, its consumer economy could reach stride years before the rest of the world could get on its feet. It only made sense that as the world rebuilt – mostly with America footing the bill – the playing field would level out. We left military forces overseas after the war largely to keep nations with histories of fighting each other, from fighting each other yet again.

Fast forward through the Cold War and the United States became increasingly vulnerable as socialists made inroads and media and academia and as it became more dependent on foreign energy sources. The zenith of this vulnerability was the oil crisis of the early 1970s, when OPEC’s embargo led directly to shortages, rationing and severe recession in the US. That period also saw the United States lose the war in Vietnam and brush as close to socialism as it had during the Great Depression, when President Nixon imposed wage and price controls to attempt to stabilize the economy (it didn’t work, and contributed to the rise of “stagflation” under President Carter, who also had no solutions). Reagan undid much of the damage, only for Obama to hurt the economy later.

Fast forward again. The United States is now, for the first time in decades, energy independent. That doesn’t mean we buy no oil or gas from foreign sources. We still do. But we’ve diversified our foreign sources and we’re producing much more for ourselves. Where we once bought about 35% of our oil from the Middle East, we now buy less than 10%. Our foreign oil sources include Mexico, Africa and even Russia, but no single foreign source can strangle our economy or our military (Democrats imposing hard left anti-energy policies could). The US is now the world’s largest energy producer and a net exporter. Instead of depending on the unstable Middle East, we’re depending on North Dakota and Texas.

This changes everything.

Thursday, President Trump signed a $200 billion trade deal with China. This deal includes billions in energy exports from the US to China. China is our chief economic and military competitor. To the extent China depends on stable US energy is to the extent the probability of direct conflict with China decreases.

The US is now in a stronger position not just with regard to China, but also with the Middle East, with Russia and with Europe. Europe doesn’t even develop its own energy sources anymore, it is so in the grip of leftwing hysteria against fracking and fossil fuels. Russia lacks the technology to keep up with the United States. That’s why they fear American fracking and are very likely funding leftwing groups that attack fracking – as British billionaire Sir Christopher Hohn funds Extinction Rebellion. Americans are now inking deals to export natural gas with Eastern Europe and Saudi Arabia. Venezuela still has the largest proven oil reserves, but socialism is killing that country and keeping most of its oil off the market. Texas alone produces nearly five times Venezuela’s daily oil output now.

Not only are we stronger, our adversaries and competitors are mostly weaker. China is fractured and may crack permanently as Hong Kong and Taiwan reject its communist rule. Those two tiny offshoots are like water freezing in a crack in cement: The ice in the crack can break the block. Russia is increasingly unstable, and Putin’s move to solidify his grip on power may turn out to be the beginning of the slow-motion end for him. The killing of Iranian terrorist Gen. Qassam Suleimani did not trigger World War III despite the grave warnings from the foreign policy establishment and its press puppets. Japan is deploying forces to the Persian Gulf in a show of support for the US.

Handing the country to any of the Democrats running for president would be reckless. They would raise taxes to fund their socialist schemes and break our new energy dominance. That’s a recipe for economic disaster and weakens our national security. It’s what the Russians, among others, want. If you like the violent yellow vest riots in France, just let any of the Democrats take the White House.

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tituspullo

4 years ago

true, we are a towering oak, but we have termites, whom we label democrats, who are destroying us from within. this can’t go on

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Suresh

4 years ago

Reply to  tituspullo

American govt has spending bill of over $3 Trillion including new debt. Revenues are lower than expected .

china “deal ” is something both can walk out of anytime. And $200 billion is agri and oil based low end products that china can easily shift anytime

Stock market prices are in bubble due to FED printing and splurging, Its bubble that will crash

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felix1999

4 years ago

Reply to  Suresh

The jobs are real and so are the revenues. It has also cut into social programs. LESS is being paid out. It will take a VOTE to get rid of USMCA. Trump tries to be careful with EO’s. USMCA was a real accomplishment. China is a tougher situation…

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Patriotic American

4 years ago

I think we can sum up the Democrat “base” thus:
2016 – Maggots
2020 – Gag (as in, “makes you want to gag”)

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Peter WF

4 years ago

Trump has the unemployment rate down to 3.5%. All he has done from my perspective is being loyal to the USA.
Why would you want to export jobs? China imports them and few seem to realize that this works.
Globalization does not exist in China. They have tariffs on everything coming in. I built a one off tester for use (not for sale) in China. Could have been made in China so tariff was applied. WAKE UP PEOPLE!
“Free Trade” is a marketing term. Generally it refers to an agreement of a set of preferential tariffs.
“Democrats” and “Republican” are marketing terms. Both are just suggestive names.
In China all companies are required to support the secret police. Do you think this refers to local operations ONLY?
China is a dictatorship. The current President has been voted to be “President for life”.
11 March 2018 – https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43361276
15 October 2017 – Five charts about the fortunes of the Chinese family – https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-41424041

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Mr. Mojo Risin'

4 years ago

Reply to  Peter WF

Trump has increased outsourcing. Tariffs are inherently anti-free market (however I support them). China actually has much more of a free market system than we do considering their lack of regulating bodies (e.g. FDA, EPA, OSHA, etc.).

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Peter WF

4 years ago

Reply to  Mr. Mojo Risin'

Not been my experience. The machines I am involved in –
If imported into China they require regulatory testing. Last I heard the office for import testing had 2 staff.
If made locally the regulatory admin is done by a different office.
FDA, EPA, OSHA, etc. do a very important job. They protect the average Joe blow from unscrupulous companies. I have worked under FDA, UL and FCC and other requirements. ABSOLUTELY necessary. They mean that all companies in the various industries compete on an equal basis. That is all have to have the level of integrity required by the regulatory body. Shysters cannot survive.

To quote –
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Ronald Reagan

We constantly have to fight the OPINION that these organisations are a milestone. The GFC is a result of allowing financial institutions to set their own standards – i.e. self regulation does not work. It is a great idea just like communism but human nature will see to its corruption.

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Murielle

4 years ago

Trump makes me wish I was American.

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felix1999

4 years ago

Reply to  Murielle

Immigrate here!
We need more good people!!!!

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Drew the Infidel

4 years ago

And impeachment is the payback?

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John Acord

4 years ago

Every enemy and competitor of the USA knows that destroying Trump is in their best interests and they will do everything in their power to replace him with one of the crazies from the Commiecrat Party. 2020 will not just be an American election it will be an election fought and financed by very enemy of he USA and all of them want Trump gone.

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