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He has the power and the will and he is using it, and who can blame him?<\/p>\n
Now, the EU and China are in the crosshairs of his Gatling gun and let\u2019s see what they have to offer by way of acquiescence. This method of shotgun diplomacy is being taken by him to a new level.<\/p>\n
Thank goodness the UK has a balanced trade agreement with the US (mostly in relation to services which are immune from tariffs anyway) and what is more, Trump loves us, despite having Sir \u2018Feeble\u2019 Starmer at the helm who is trying to steer a tricky course between the EU and the USA.<\/p>\n
Trump has two years to implement his electoral promises, before the Republicans lose their majority in The House and he \u2018ain’t\u2019 wasting a moment on empty rhetoric.<\/p>\n
I would be interested to see how those laggards in the EU deal with a trade surplus with America. These overpaid bureaucrats are certainly not used to this type of instantaneous transactional politics.<\/p>\n
Once upon a time, Europe had the same GDP and population as America but in the last ten years, they are 40% smaller, with a third of the growth and double the unemployment rate. They are just inept at running their own countries.<\/p>\n
This super-effective, international problem-solving method is not necessarily new, since it was used in the past more than ably by Israel, with the raid on Entebbe, and Margaret Thatcher\u2019s audacious recapturing of the Falklands many years ago.<\/p>\n
I feel sure that behind closed doors the Ukrainian peace deal is being thrashed out as we speak, and I am certain that Netanyahu was told by the President to find a sustainable peaceful settlement in Gaza and Lebanon, which assuredly must involve Saudi Arabia and Iran.<\/p>\n
The breathless antics of the Trump administration are in sharp contrast to the lazy, sloth-like, low energy \u2018Jurassic Joe Biden\u2019 and his dozy team of \u2018dumb nuts\u2019. Everyone knows that tariffs, in the medium to long term, are not a sustainable solution for any country, but Trump is using them as a temporary fix to get other foreign leaders to sit up and take note.<\/p>\n
Putin must be carefully watching this international scene in the knowledge that he could be next, and I feel sure that he is clenching his \u2018Muscovite buttocks\u2019 in advance of a tricky negotiation to settle the war, which he needs to do sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n
President \u2018Wimp\u2019 Obama demonstrated a pathetic, limp-wristed response to the use of chemical weapons by President Assad of Syria, which crossed Obama\u2019s \u2018red line\u2019 at the time, but without retribution from America. This inevitably gave the despots of the world the green light to ply their trade with impunity or so it came to pass.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s wild card is that he can be a little unhinged in both his narrative and his actions, however this presents him with an excellent pre-requisite in dealing with the world\u2019s problems, as no one quite knows how he will react to them.<\/p>\n
I think we are all sick and tired of the liberal, feeble-minded \u2018Chamberlains\u2019 of this world.\u00a0We have been thirsting for a modern-day Churchill, but one who works out every day in the gym, throws the javelin, heads the ball and pulls trucks with his teeth. We certainly have these caricatures in Mr. Trump, whether you like him or not.<\/p>\n
All this cacophony of frenetic energy may cause some disruption initially to the world order, but peace will reign before too long.\u00a0 Whilst the Capital markets will gyrate for a while, I don\u2019t see this having much effect on the residential property market in the UK, which seems to relentlessly continue trundling along, not going up very much but not down either and I believe this will be the continuing pattern for 2025.<\/p>\n
We live in very interesting times.<\/p>\n
Trevor Abrahmsohn, Glentree International<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether you love or hate Trump you must admire his \u2018MO\u2019 and transactional style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viewpoint","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glentree.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glentree.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glentree.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glentree.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glentree.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.glentree.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"https:\/\/www.glentree.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glentree.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glentree.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glentree.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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