Keep in mind we have not even really begun to mass produce oil yet.
Japan is an interesting case. If I know one thing from WWII history, it's that they CANNOT do autarky, don't have the resources for it. It really makes more sense for us to be shipping them raw materials, and then they can ship back finished products using their main export of autism.
All Asian countries prefer the US to China. The PRC is very aggressive and has invaded several Asian countries including Vietnam and Korea.
Libshits like to frame this whole tariff thing as an unplanned and disastrous thing that will surely end in all the other nations of the world banding together to turn the Great Satan wearing a MAGA hat into a third-world country for daring to fix their trade deficits, yet they fail to realize that there will be at least some nations that understand where the U.S is coming for and are perfectly happy to negotiate with the U.S and be part of the new economic order that the U.S is constructing. In fact it is already happening with Israel, Argentina, and some others so I'm really not sure why liberals will still think this plan will end in disaster. Also its annoying how libtards think that Trump's economic policies are gonna increase wealth inequality and usher in "technofeudalism" when in fact Trump's policies are kicking Wall Street in the balls while helping Main Street recover from decades of deindustrialization and mass immigration. The stock market is a plaything for the rich, it crashing hurts the rich the most.
It's all part of the advantages and disadvantages of being an island nation. Sure someone has to cross an ocean to get to you but you're stuck with whatever isn't underwater around you.
You have to remember, the left has no real issues with this, but Trump is doing it so it’s evil, bad and will destroy everything. If one of their people was doing exactly what Trumps doing they would be singing their praises. All those faggots have in their empty, evil hearts is that Orange man is super Hitler and we are all Nazis.
I think the most bizarre Japanese thing near me, is in the middle of fucking nowhere SoCal there’s a Japanese owned industrial farm. And it’s one of the larger farms here
China pressured their cucky Hong Kong entity into backing out, but that was a dumb move, because it puts them in violation of their lease, from what I heard.
Every single Asian countries are like mini china. Their economies are essentially the same..
They also have limited real estate in an hyper overpopulated island chain.
Fukuzawa Yukichi, a member of the first Japanese Embassy to the US (and a really fascinating historical figure) actually commented on this in his autobiography.
This is true regime change. Trump is trying the most ambitious regime change in history. Usually when there is a giant reshaping of the global landscape there are massive amount of death and suffering.
If this is what does in the CCP's power then the moral of Trump's second term is that "Trade is power"
Trump's not an idiot. He's a smart guy. Just not galaxy brain smart.
