Mijn waarom is geen onderwerp van discussie. Niet stemmen versterkt partijen die niet in het landsbelang willen denken. Alleen maar Nee blijven roepen kan beter langs de zijlijnen dan in het speelveld. Ik stem dus uit strategische overwegingen. Het tactisch stemmen is echter veel lastiger. Als ik op een persoon zou stemmen, dan wist ik het wel. Helaas lijkt die...
My 2016 triangle of 3 dimensions, Love, Knowledge & Power, including 7 Belief systems: (1) Love (1x Love), (2) Money, Politics, Religion (3x Power), and (3) Philosophy, Science, and the Truth (3x Knowledge). Please see my - still evolving - diagram below: Source: my 2020 blog Source: my 2025 blog is it possible that the 2025 American political chaos does not...
Various articles discuss who has won the trade war between Europe and USA (eg, Politico-1). Apparently, the more taxation, the better. Seriously?? This lack of perspective worries me. France (and others) complain about the lack of reciprocity of import tariffs for USA (eg, Politico-2). Such articles forget - or ignore - some very important things: Impact of import...
Quite possibly, the opinion in Le Monde (see below) by French economist Thomas Piketty is wishful thinking. Nevertheless, I agree with its title: Rethinking the world without the US. In my view, Thomas Piketty uses (his) facts to promote his ideology in writing. In my view, the 2025 situation in USA has accelerated a trend that was visible decades ago: America is no...
Intro LO: Last Friday, I published a Dutch blog on this topic: USA: Europe must choose between America and China !? The underlying Dutch article referred to a recent Irish Times article as its source. Subsequently, an Axios Macro article (see below) arrived the next day: The U.S.-China decoupling arrives. In my view, such a decoupling makes no logical and/or...
Afgelopen dinsdag las ik een vreemd AD artikel: "Gelekt document onthult ultiem doel handelsoorlog Trump: ‘EU dwingen te kiezen tussen VS en China’. Ik heb moeite om dit te geloven omdat de vraag uit Europa vooral gaat om de levering van Amerikaanse (financiële) diensten, alsmede om Chinese goederen. De oorzaak is vrij simpel: kwaliteit versus kwantiteit. Amerika...
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