NO ONE wins a trade war And this one might hit red states hardest------------------------------------------ well , sledgehammer use is whats needed . What can they do in retaliation . Trade War , bring it on as the President is willing as far as i can see Edward .BUT do you use a sledgehammer in accomplishing those aims??Shifting all the time wouldn't you say ?? Are their any perfect ? No not one.Well there is our friend's whom Trump and the U.S. has found to be doing us wrong in these failed trade agreements, and then there are these leaders of these alledged enemy countries for whom haven't been doing us wrong, because we saw them as an enemy state because of the way they were treating their own people, so we kept them at bay until they showed improvements in their in house problems.
However, due to greed, our business leaders here we're willing to ignore China's humanatarian abuses in order to more over add to those abuses by helping China to work their people in sweat shops under communist rule for international trade purposes. Then we end up with an 800 billion dollar trade deficit with China ?? Kidding me right ?
Then when a new U.S. leader comes into challenge it all, (then you who have supported the out of balance trade and abuse that came with it all), begin circling the wagons in either protection of the bullcrap or in an attempt to hide the bullcrap in order to keep it all going.
So…who are our friends and who are our enemies?
Have to keep up, because some might be willing to change, when others are shifting towards greed, and heavy trade in their favor.
We have to go with what's in our national interest, and not in trade deficits that make no sense.
One of the great mis-calculations is that you can try to surgically help a demographic while ignoring another in a trade war. In a world where you can order toothbrushes made in Brazil if you want, its almost impossible to corner a market because the guys you’re aiming at can almost always buy what you’re selling somewhere else. Developed nations also usually have something to trade with their new trading partner which cancels out any extra price their citizens are paying in the new relationship.