{"id":36281,"date":"2018-07-31T06:43:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T11:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36281"},"modified":"2018-07-31T06:43:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T11:43:08","slug":"whose-trade-war-is-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36281","title":{"rendered":"Whose Trade War Is It Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Whose Trade War Is It Anyway?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
Everybody complains about Trump, but he wasn\u2019t the one who started it<\/strong><\/div>\n
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to President Donald Trump in front of other world leaders in Charlevoix, Canada, at the G-7 summit on June 9, 2018. The mainstream media and world leaders are blaming Trump for starting a trade war, where in reality all politicians are fighting to protect their special interest groups. (Jesco Denzel \/Bundesregierung via Getty Images)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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War is aggression, often with the use of physical violence to conquer land, people, and power. Trade wars, though not quite as bad, also are aggressive in nature. Where two or more private parties want to transact freely, aggressive governments step in the way and prevent trade from happening with the threat of force.<\/p>\n

In 2018, most of the mainstream media and the establishment powers blame President Donald Trump and his administration for starting <\/i>a trade war, which\u2014like real wars\u2014can only produce losers on both sides. \u201cHow Much Damage Will Trump\u2019s Trade War Do?\u201d read a headline in The Atlantic, and countless other articles and official statements say similar things.<\/p>\n

So the mainstream media and some politicians are pretending that trade was 100 percent free before Trump started to threaten the \u201cfree traders\u201d of China, the European Union (EU), Mexico, and Canada with tariffs. The media paints Washington as the aggressor in this trade war. Trump shot first.<\/p>\n

However, truth be told, this trade war did not start this year and certainly the United States isn\u2019t the biggest aggressor. In real war terms, the Americans are now starting to shoot back after being under siege for decades and the whole world is complaining about this act of self-defense.<\/p>\n

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Whose Trade War Is It Anyway? Everybody complains about Trump, but he wasn\u2019t the one who started it German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to President Donald Trump in front of other world leaders in Charlevoix, Canada, at the G-7 summit on June 9, 2018. The mainstream media and world leaders are blaming Trump for starting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[4745,7844,284,337,4349,9937,16350,805,3222,827,16349,862],"class_list":["post-36281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-aggression","tag-donald-trump","tag-european-union","tag-free-trade","tag-g7","tag-tariffs","tag-the-epoch-times","tag-trade","tag-trade-war","tag-united-states","tag-valentin-schmid","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36282,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36281\/revisions\/36282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}