We will never trust you again

[Kirkhill]

Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'

Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.

substack.com

 

[Brad Sallows]

Did none of those people ever think about how ordinary US taxpayers felt about the money US politicians were willing to spend around the world?

 

[Remius]

Did none of those people ever think about how ordinary US taxpayers felt about the money US politicians were willing to spend around the world?

Given the level of understanding on how tariffs work, I doubt they had a clue how that worked.

 

[QV]

The headline of that article reads like a petulant child that got his toy taken away for not doing his chores.

 

[Remius]

The headline of that article reads like a petulant child that got his toy taken away for not doing his chores.

Quoting what appears to be our British friends.

It isn’t just us. And they are not wrong,

 

[Kirkhill]

I sympathize with those Yanks that have been paying the bills for the last 80 years.

Unfortunately for the rest of us we were given to believe the Yanks had figured out history. They were wrong and we were wrong.

We are right to lose trust. We don't need to be nasty about it. Growing up and losing trust kind of go hand in hand.

Sooner or later we were going to have to stand on our feet and suffer the consequences of our own decisions.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Did none of those people ever think about how ordinary US taxpayers felt about the money US politicians were willing to spend around the world?

Maybe they should have spent a bit more time learning about yellow cake uranium and Niger over 20yrs ago when the most recent bleeding of US treasure started.

To be the world's Reserve Currency and the stay the Reserve Currency requires the continuous spending of copious amounts of money. They can make the choice to give up this mantel and pass it along to the next contender as is the process of following world history. Or, if they like, they can try Door #2 and attempt to black mail the rest of the western world into following their lead, to keep the music going, and have us spend our money with theirs in keeping the gig from being up for another decade or two.

During that time period, the next 1 to maybe 2 decades, they better hope that China self-implodes, effectively removing themselves from being the next contender.

 

[QV]

Quoting what appears to be our British friends.

It isn’t just us. And they are not wrong,

Ah, the irony. A Brit mad about being treated badly or not as an equal...

 

[QV]

Maybe they should have spent a bit more time learning about yellow cake uranium and Niger over 20yrs ago when the most recent bleeding of US treasure started.

To be the world's Reserve Currency and the stay the Reserve Currency requires the continuous spending of copious amounts of money. They can make the choice to give up this mantel and pass it along to the next contender as is the process of following world history. Or, if they like, they can try Door #2 and attempt to black mail the rest of the western world into following their lead, to keep the music going, and have us spend our money with theirs in keeping the gig from being up for another decade or two.

During that time period, the next 1 to maybe 2 decades, they better hope that China self-implodes, effectively removing themselves from being the next contender.

China will implode, demographically and probably economically. The US today on the other hand is the best positioned country on the planet when it comes to demographics and geography - which means economically as well.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Maybe they should have spent a bit more time learning about yellow cake uranium and Niger over 20yrs ago when the most recent bleeding of US treasure started.

To be the world's Reserve Currency and the stay the Reserve Currency requires the continuous spending of copious amounts of money. They can make the choice to give up this mantel and pass it along to the next contender as is the process of following world history. Or, if they like, they can try Door #2 and attempt to black mail the rest of the western world into following their lead, to keep the music going, and have us spend our money with theirs in keeping the gig from being up for another decade or two.

During that time period, the next 1 to maybe 2 decades, they better hope that China self-implodes, effectively removing themselves from being the next contender.

Also, pissing about 12 billion to US Farmers one minute and then talking about applying even more tariffs on CDN Potash the next doesn't give anyone on this side of the border any warm and fuzzy feeling that the current administration has anything figured out on how not to piss away US taxpayer money.

 

[Czech_pivo]

China will implode, demographically and probably economically. The US today on the other hand is the best positioned country on the planet when it comes to demographics and geography - which means economically as well.

Maybe - having 40+ million Americans on food stamps doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling that they have it all figured out.

 

[brihard]

The headline of that article reads like a petulant child that got his toy taken away for not doing his chores.

Ok. But what issue do you take with the actual content of the piece?

 

[Kirkhill]

Also, pissing about 12 billion to US Farmers one minute and then talking about applying even more tariffs on CDN Potash the next doesn't give anyone on this side of the border any warm and fuzzy feeling that the current administration has anything figured out on how not to piss away US taxpayer money.

My problem is with those people that thought that if they got close to the treasury then they could buy themselves international power and influence off the backs of American storekeepers, farmers and factory workers.

Buying with other peoples' money and no personal consequences.

Foggy Bottom, Whitehall and Bytown. Same mob.