Yeah I am a concerned euro watching across the Atlantic. But the ideals of your founding fathers live on in your constitution and legislative branch, which can get the system back on track, right?

Yeah but turning China into a democracy will be harder than returning the US to what it has been, a constitutional law-based society.

This makes no sense bro. At least the US has a potential path to return to a different president/congress in 4 years, since it has a constitution that grant rights to everyone.

Maybe Tariff money? Oh wait they are taxes on domestic importers.

Russia has not the port infrastructure china has. And that would take decades to build, if Russia can even afford it (it costs more money then they have).

We truly live in the best (funniest) timeline.

I can defend my choice of words “historical”: Even the most mundane happenings today might be viewed completely weird practices in the future.

We are witnessing history in the making, people! Keep documenting and writing it down, like the ancient greek historians. The US has radically changed under the new president Trump 2024 -> 2025 and we will need to study the effects on our world and global economy closely. Historic times indeed.

Who cares when the commoners living next to the coal plant breathe radioactive dust? Its cheaper to run for the industrialists short term, less capital investment to build, educate personell and maintain them is required. /s

yes even coal is “cheaper” than nuclear once you disregard polution

I think France is in the best position to lead in these new tariff times, as they retained more economic and strategic independence compared to for example Germany. Time to learn french.

tensions flare over new US tariffs, French President Emmanuel Macron has urged companies to freeze US investments

the “urge” is just the first step I guess?

China has way more exports, so in the short term Trumps tariffs will hurt them more than whatever they counter it with anyways.

Compared to drive with the train on rail without unloading/stopping? Mode change is expensive. So ideally once Iran is liberated the train would just drive from Central Asia to Turkey through Iran without stopping.

The Trans Iranian Railways are already built, but not in use to transport goods from central asia to turkey as far as I understand.

yeah but to avoid Russia & Iran you need to cross the Caspian sea by boat, which is not optimal for costs and profit-margins I assume. Train needs to be unloaded, containers wait in port (Turkmenistan or Kazakhstan I assume) until ship is loaded …

Isnt most of the oil refined from oil sands in Canada? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_sands#Canada

I guess many of the Americans troops are stationed in North-Eastern Syria, where Turkey is going to “protect its interests”, once the American bases are gone …