I’m sure that China was the back room pressure, I mean it’s almost too painfully obvious so it feels dumb to say, behind trump talking about annexing Canada and Greenland. They stated outright that it was to do with fentanyl and pass throughs, in the case of Canada, mineral resources regarding Greenland, and arctic sea routes in both cases.
But then the thing is, we MUST have communicated these and other unknown concerns to the EU through diplomatic channels, and they still publicly reacted in wildly bellicose tones. Norway refused to refuel our naval vessels, France moved some ships off Newfoundland to be like “we r gunna protec heccin Canada,” etc
So I think the timing of the trade war was for trump to call bluffs on all of that shit and force a public vote, in essence, between us and China
If China is bitching now that they want to trade but we have to be nice, that means shit didn’t work out for them the way they hoped it would, or we moved their timeline too soon for them to be comfortable with the full confrontation.
And it’s not OVER yet, obviously. China won’t take anything they can’t spin as a win
@WelperHelper99 i think there’s something to read into. China’s largest drills were like 70-80 aircraft and idk, correct me if I’m wrong but no more than 30 ships?
They still have zero practical experience in truly large scale logistics