JimofPennsylvan
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President Trump needs to be more strategic about doing his job that way he would stop making so many bad and poor decisions! He needs to stop with the continual interactions with the Press, the Press baits him into making statements and decisions he shouldn't make; he needs to be smart about the Press he should have one Press conference a week if he believes frequent interactions with the Press is important he needs to remember he has a Press Secretary it is that person's role to deal with the Press on a daily basis! The President also needs to get a good kitchen cabinet of three or four people together (instead of twits like Stephen Miller he uses) that are wise and that can be candid with him and he won't send them to the guillotine for such good faith advice and the President needs to run his policy plans by them before he announces them publicly because often his policy plans he comes out with are half-baked ideas that are inherently flawed and it really doesn't advance his interests coming out with them. The President needs to become more message disciplined if he did so he would be a better President!
One example of this problem is President Trump's announcement two days ago that he is giving Russian President Putin fifty days to make a peace deal on Ukraine or face punishing secondary tariffs against his country's trading partners. This is a foolish inept plan on so many fronts! First, President Putin sees himself as the caretaker of Russia's reputation as a superior people there is no way he is going to be pressured or coerced to make a peace deal in a war which he has advocated is a vital for Russia, he would appear as a weak leader so it ain't happening. Secondly, why wait fifty days to take action against this leader who deserves consequences today, Putin has jerked America along ever since President Trump won reelection on the surface appearing open to peace but substantively fighting ferociously for victory; it is a fool's effort looking for peace with Putin today - he deserves optimum negative consequences immediately! Thirdly, the one hundred percent secondary sanctions is a plain dumb idea, they would end up going against countries like China, India and Turkey Russia's major trading partners and problems in relationships with these countries America doesn't need. China has the power to really hurt America with our need for rare earth minerals, major U.S. industries could face shutdowns, America doesn't need an additional fight with China where this country could pull this trigger. Turkey is an extremely valuable strategic partner to America these sanctions would hurt the Turkish economy which would hurt the Turkish government we don't need to be hurting this vital friend in time of turbulence in the world. India holds significant potential for trading growth for America with its enormous population America doesn't need to enter into a big trade conflict with India which will potentially have a long-term negative effect in so far as India's views on the value of trade with America! The fact that Congress is putting together a bill to try to implement this secondary tariff idea on Russia's trading partners should have little persuasive value it is a score political points bill it passes the buck to the President the burden is on him to decide to implement secondary tariffs! If President Trump wants a plan that will really hurt President Putin and is open to being bold I would suggest the following take Putin's shadow tanker fleet out of the game by bringing about the sinking of these tankers. The fleet numbers hundreds of tankers each tanker over the course of a year probably delivers one hundred million dollars worth of oil so every tanker that can be sunk really will pinch Putin's war effort. The specifics would be that America uses its vast surveillance capability to locate a Russian tankers and after the Russian tanker makes its delivery a group of like two U.S. naval ships with one Ukrainian naval ship (it could be a dinky Ukrainian naval ship get an old coast guard ship and sell it to the Ukrainians it just needs to be suitable enough to board Ukrainian sailors onto the targeted oil tanker) and in the ship group a small ethanol tanker ship and a small oil delivery ship (the latter two ships under a U.S. flag) track the Russian tanker and in the open sea the Ukrainian naval vessel stops and boards the Russian tanker and removes the crew and claims it as a Ukrainian ship and America recognizes the tanker as an Ukrainian ship and then the small ethanol transport ship and a small refueling ship pull up beside the new Ukrainian tanker ship and the refueling ship pumps out any oil remaining in the new Ukrainian tanker and the small ethanol tanker with a crew sprays down the tanker holds with ethanol and pumps out the ethanol contaminated with oil residue essentially cleaning the new Ukrainian tanker ship of oil so it isn't a major environmental hazard when it sinks then the Ukrainian sailors start pumping sea water into the new Ukrainian tanker holds and cut small holes in the hull of the tanker thereby sinking the tanker ship! The U.S. navy ships need to be involved because otherwise Russia would likely scramble some jets and sink the small ethanol tanker and the small refueling ship where if their U.S. flagged ships the U.S. Navy is justified in protecting them. The plan would be to safely sink the Russian tanker ship quickly to deny the Russian Navy and Russian Air force a retaliatory opportunity and I suspect if the tanker ship is sunk in not too deep waters its hull will remain intact and after the war it can be brought to the surface and salvaged.
Another area where President Trump is not being strategic is in his tariff agenda he doesn't appreciate the harm he will in fact cause if he stays on his trajectory. I think with the European Union the present plan is to initiate 30% tariffs if a deal isn't reached by August 1, colossal mistake if this is implemented for a significant period of time. President Trump has gotten erroneous information that couldn't be more erroneous in his belief that the European Union's purpose was to screw America the truthful purpose of the European Union is to help and raise the standard of living of economically weak countries in the southern portion of the bloc by boot strapping these economies to stronger economies in the bloc like Germany and France; this is done vis-a-vis the "euro". The reality of the situation is if President Trump embarks on his trade war with the EU he is going to damage the income of these individual countries and the southern ones are going to have to borrow money to fund their government where their debt load is already maxed out so what the President is going to end up doing is wrecking the finances of the European Union thereby making it a weaker strategic partner; President Trump is all happy with himself that he got NATO countries to agree to spend five percent of their GDP on military expenditures well President Trump you need to understand that these countries are not controlled like America is by its wealthy funneling money into the political system and controlling members of America's legislature in these countries the members of the legislature put the interest of their people first and so they will choose bread, shelter and health care first over military expenditure so you can kiss your NATO goal good-bye if your enact your extremely damaging tariff's agenda. On Mexico I think they also are currently facing thirty percent tariffs; President Trump is playing with fire here he is going to be taking a Mexican government that is a good government that is doing the best it can to combat the drug cartels and going to bring about the downfall of this government and it could be replaced with a Mexican government that is an ally and a promoter of the Drug Cartels. As for Canada the thirty-five percent tariff they are facing will leave hard feelings that will last for decades heretofore before the Trump administration Canada and the United States acted to a large degree like one country from a business activity standpoint to both peoples benefit President Trump will cause long-term negative effects here with his divisive tariff agenda. President Trump should stop with his minimal ten percent tariff terms in all trade deals future U.S. Presidents will repeal it because it practically turn out to be a regressive tax on the American consumer, the only trade deficit that is alarming is with China for the other trade deficit countries if President Trump deems the deficit important impose a maximum of ten percent tariff so these countries aren't really hurt and President Trump needs to include goods and services in the trade deficit determination. President Trump in his tariff agenda should primarily be focused on bringing good paying manufacturing jobs to America and realize this will take time because America has a limited trained labor force and limited supply chains. President Trump wants to impose a fifty percent tariff on copper come August 1 to increase domestic supply of copper at best it will take three years to bring on more supply what are U.S. Manufacturers supposed to do in the interim, copper is used in a vast multitude of products from cars to homes the fallout is higher prices for American consumers that is foolish! President Trump needs to be more careful with his trade agenda to not unduly hurt America!
President Trump on the Gaza issue largely focusing on a hostage deal that is only half the issue! October 7, 2023 in Israel was behavior that can only be described as that of barbarians the behavior of Hamas that is and I never thought I would say this but the behavior of the Israel government in Gaza since then has risen to the level of barbarians with the starvation of Palestinian civilians, four food distribution centers for two million people where Palestinian mothers have to face the decision where they send their son and/or husband to one of these centers to get food and face a high risk of getting shot by Israeli soldiers or her family starves it is cruel beyond words to subject human beings to such a choice. To those people in America that believe in God I would like to share my view at what is at stake here let me do it by comparison when President Biden pulled America out of Afghanistan and subjected Afghan women and men to a life like that of the Middle Ages under the Taliban rule that was an off the charts bad act for America keeping around 2500 troops in Afghanistan could have stabilized this country per General David Petraeus after that betrayal of humanity and to the American families of veterans who died or were severely wounded in the Afghan war where their sacrifice was made a complete waste with this move President Biden was punished by God I believe his mental acuity took a significant decline this is not something that can be proven but as a matter of faith and I would respectively submit it is true and Biden's mental decline is to a significant degree the core cause of why he had a failed Presidency. Because America through the decades and especially over the last two years has provided enormous amounts of financing, weapons and ammunition to Israel America has a responsibility over the Israeli governments behavior in Gaza specifically meaning that America unless it takes major action to stop the historic atrocity being perpetrated by the Israeli government of the starvation and deprivation of basic humanitarian aid to the Palestinian civilians currently in Gaza, America and the current American President because he currently holds the power of the Presidency so he can stop this will pay a steep price. All people are God's children and people should take it as a given that God sees and hears the pleas of his Palestinian children in Gaza and President Trump would be prudent to stop this unconscionable deprivation, so he doesn't experience the wrath of God over this matter. If President Trump doesn't agree with the God viewpoint here he should recognize the view of countries throughout the world that see America as culpable with this unbelievable atrocity going on in Gaza and based on that concern should take action to stop it. What can he do? The Israeli government has a slight point prior to around four months ago Hamas was stealing and confiscating the aid and selling it and using the money obtained to fund its operation. Humanitarian aid organizations need to recognize this and cooperation with a fair solution. This is the fair solution and everyone needs to remember this arrangement needs to last only at most two years because a peace deal that brings about and end to Hamas and IDF forces in Gaza can and should be reached where if need be overwhelming pressure can be imposed on Hamas and the Israel government to accept the deal. This is the solution America opens up like fifteen warehouses across Gaza and on a weekly basis allows an aid station to do a pick-up of aid and take it to its distribution site the pick-up caravan can be surveilled by drones or a special forces task force to insure it doesn't deviate and returns to the aid station the trucks will be unloaded something like five hours could be granted the trucks will then be moved away from the aid site. No truck or SUV will be permitted to enter the aid station during this week interval any such truck or SUV action going to the aid site and leaving will be deemed a vehicle working for Hamas and after leaving the site will be destroyed by a helicopter or drone the vehicle will be given an opportunity to know it will be destroyed the helicopter or drone will make themselves obvious to the driver of the vehicle so the driver can stop and have all occupants can vacate besides this opportunity there will be no investigation even if three occupants are seen in the front seat of the vehicle the vehicle will be destroyed. Everyone needs to understand America is not playing games here we are not subjecting our citizens to a bombing or shooting conducting an investigation if it is a Hamas operation there is clear rules that will exist to stop to stop this aiding of Hamas and the rules will be enforced with no empathy or feelings. If UN aid organizations want to open and supply sites outside of this American system go for it and America won't involve itself with you but if you want to utilize this American supply chain you will follow American rules no complaining or whining will be given consideration later. Israel will open up multiple cross points into Gaza to allow U.S. truck caravans to move food from Israel to the American warehouses in Gaza. If Israel doesn't agree to this plan America will just impose it on Gaza and use supply ships on the Mediterranean Sea to bring in the food!
One hears in the media that the Gaza issue needs an ultimate peace deal to end the Gaza War but nobody is talking about solving the needed problems none of the government officials of any of the pertinent governments are addressing the needed issues. Hamas needs to be eliminated so to stop a resurgence of missile attacks on Israel from Gaza where the world would be back at square one and this is the crux of the problem this is the source of the poison that is killing people, the Hamas tunnel system, even today experts tell us sixty percent of the Hamas tunnel system in Gaza is still intact. With Hamas tunnel system Hamas has weapon depots and places to hide and plan their attacks on Israel and peaceful Palestinians in Gaza. The world has to come up with a system to destroy the Hamas tunnel system and keep it from being rebuilt. The world has the technology to build a living environment on the Moon and Artificial intelligence where it can make computers smarter than most human being it is completely unacceptable that the world cannot come up with a solution to the Hamas tunnel system problem. Gaza is relatively small like six miles deep and twenty-five miles long and right now the area is largely rubble why can't two long and big twenty-five mile tunnels be built under Gaza that will allow authorities to drill horizontal holes underneath the entirety of Gaza to identify potential Hamas tunnels that then they can be accessed from the surface and destroyed. Yes it will cost a few dollars but it is way cheaper to fund this then fund periodic wars between Israel and Palestinian terrorists in Gaza and the rebuilding. I think the American people would support such an operation because the Israel/Palestinian conflict is an oppressive matter on America and I think the American people want relief from this never ending problem and taking on this task by America will allow good Palestinians to get in control in Gaza and stop the Palestinian/Israeli violence which is an extreme burden on America and the World!
One example of this problem is President Trump's announcement two days ago that he is giving Russian President Putin fifty days to make a peace deal on Ukraine or face punishing secondary tariffs against his country's trading partners. This is a foolish inept plan on so many fronts! First, President Putin sees himself as the caretaker of Russia's reputation as a superior people there is no way he is going to be pressured or coerced to make a peace deal in a war which he has advocated is a vital for Russia, he would appear as a weak leader so it ain't happening. Secondly, why wait fifty days to take action against this leader who deserves consequences today, Putin has jerked America along ever since President Trump won reelection on the surface appearing open to peace but substantively fighting ferociously for victory; it is a fool's effort looking for peace with Putin today - he deserves optimum negative consequences immediately! Thirdly, the one hundred percent secondary sanctions is a plain dumb idea, they would end up going against countries like China, India and Turkey Russia's major trading partners and problems in relationships with these countries America doesn't need. China has the power to really hurt America with our need for rare earth minerals, major U.S. industries could face shutdowns, America doesn't need an additional fight with China where this country could pull this trigger. Turkey is an extremely valuable strategic partner to America these sanctions would hurt the Turkish economy which would hurt the Turkish government we don't need to be hurting this vital friend in time of turbulence in the world. India holds significant potential for trading growth for America with its enormous population America doesn't need to enter into a big trade conflict with India which will potentially have a long-term negative effect in so far as India's views on the value of trade with America! The fact that Congress is putting together a bill to try to implement this secondary tariff idea on Russia's trading partners should have little persuasive value it is a score political points bill it passes the buck to the President the burden is on him to decide to implement secondary tariffs! If President Trump wants a plan that will really hurt President Putin and is open to being bold I would suggest the following take Putin's shadow tanker fleet out of the game by bringing about the sinking of these tankers. The fleet numbers hundreds of tankers each tanker over the course of a year probably delivers one hundred million dollars worth of oil so every tanker that can be sunk really will pinch Putin's war effort. The specifics would be that America uses its vast surveillance capability to locate a Russian tankers and after the Russian tanker makes its delivery a group of like two U.S. naval ships with one Ukrainian naval ship (it could be a dinky Ukrainian naval ship get an old coast guard ship and sell it to the Ukrainians it just needs to be suitable enough to board Ukrainian sailors onto the targeted oil tanker) and in the ship group a small ethanol tanker ship and a small oil delivery ship (the latter two ships under a U.S. flag) track the Russian tanker and in the open sea the Ukrainian naval vessel stops and boards the Russian tanker and removes the crew and claims it as a Ukrainian ship and America recognizes the tanker as an Ukrainian ship and then the small ethanol transport ship and a small refueling ship pull up beside the new Ukrainian tanker ship and the refueling ship pumps out any oil remaining in the new Ukrainian tanker and the small ethanol tanker with a crew sprays down the tanker holds with ethanol and pumps out the ethanol contaminated with oil residue essentially cleaning the new Ukrainian tanker ship of oil so it isn't a major environmental hazard when it sinks then the Ukrainian sailors start pumping sea water into the new Ukrainian tanker holds and cut small holes in the hull of the tanker thereby sinking the tanker ship! The U.S. navy ships need to be involved because otherwise Russia would likely scramble some jets and sink the small ethanol tanker and the small refueling ship where if their U.S. flagged ships the U.S. Navy is justified in protecting them. The plan would be to safely sink the Russian tanker ship quickly to deny the Russian Navy and Russian Air force a retaliatory opportunity and I suspect if the tanker ship is sunk in not too deep waters its hull will remain intact and after the war it can be brought to the surface and salvaged.
Another area where President Trump is not being strategic is in his tariff agenda he doesn't appreciate the harm he will in fact cause if he stays on his trajectory. I think with the European Union the present plan is to initiate 30% tariffs if a deal isn't reached by August 1, colossal mistake if this is implemented for a significant period of time. President Trump has gotten erroneous information that couldn't be more erroneous in his belief that the European Union's purpose was to screw America the truthful purpose of the European Union is to help and raise the standard of living of economically weak countries in the southern portion of the bloc by boot strapping these economies to stronger economies in the bloc like Germany and France; this is done vis-a-vis the "euro". The reality of the situation is if President Trump embarks on his trade war with the EU he is going to damage the income of these individual countries and the southern ones are going to have to borrow money to fund their government where their debt load is already maxed out so what the President is going to end up doing is wrecking the finances of the European Union thereby making it a weaker strategic partner; President Trump is all happy with himself that he got NATO countries to agree to spend five percent of their GDP on military expenditures well President Trump you need to understand that these countries are not controlled like America is by its wealthy funneling money into the political system and controlling members of America's legislature in these countries the members of the legislature put the interest of their people first and so they will choose bread, shelter and health care first over military expenditure so you can kiss your NATO goal good-bye if your enact your extremely damaging tariff's agenda. On Mexico I think they also are currently facing thirty percent tariffs; President Trump is playing with fire here he is going to be taking a Mexican government that is a good government that is doing the best it can to combat the drug cartels and going to bring about the downfall of this government and it could be replaced with a Mexican government that is an ally and a promoter of the Drug Cartels. As for Canada the thirty-five percent tariff they are facing will leave hard feelings that will last for decades heretofore before the Trump administration Canada and the United States acted to a large degree like one country from a business activity standpoint to both peoples benefit President Trump will cause long-term negative effects here with his divisive tariff agenda. President Trump should stop with his minimal ten percent tariff terms in all trade deals future U.S. Presidents will repeal it because it practically turn out to be a regressive tax on the American consumer, the only trade deficit that is alarming is with China for the other trade deficit countries if President Trump deems the deficit important impose a maximum of ten percent tariff so these countries aren't really hurt and President Trump needs to include goods and services in the trade deficit determination. President Trump in his tariff agenda should primarily be focused on bringing good paying manufacturing jobs to America and realize this will take time because America has a limited trained labor force and limited supply chains. President Trump wants to impose a fifty percent tariff on copper come August 1 to increase domestic supply of copper at best it will take three years to bring on more supply what are U.S. Manufacturers supposed to do in the interim, copper is used in a vast multitude of products from cars to homes the fallout is higher prices for American consumers that is foolish! President Trump needs to be more careful with his trade agenda to not unduly hurt America!
President Trump on the Gaza issue largely focusing on a hostage deal that is only half the issue! October 7, 2023 in Israel was behavior that can only be described as that of barbarians the behavior of Hamas that is and I never thought I would say this but the behavior of the Israel government in Gaza since then has risen to the level of barbarians with the starvation of Palestinian civilians, four food distribution centers for two million people where Palestinian mothers have to face the decision where they send their son and/or husband to one of these centers to get food and face a high risk of getting shot by Israeli soldiers or her family starves it is cruel beyond words to subject human beings to such a choice. To those people in America that believe in God I would like to share my view at what is at stake here let me do it by comparison when President Biden pulled America out of Afghanistan and subjected Afghan women and men to a life like that of the Middle Ages under the Taliban rule that was an off the charts bad act for America keeping around 2500 troops in Afghanistan could have stabilized this country per General David Petraeus after that betrayal of humanity and to the American families of veterans who died or were severely wounded in the Afghan war where their sacrifice was made a complete waste with this move President Biden was punished by God I believe his mental acuity took a significant decline this is not something that can be proven but as a matter of faith and I would respectively submit it is true and Biden's mental decline is to a significant degree the core cause of why he had a failed Presidency. Because America through the decades and especially over the last two years has provided enormous amounts of financing, weapons and ammunition to Israel America has a responsibility over the Israeli governments behavior in Gaza specifically meaning that America unless it takes major action to stop the historic atrocity being perpetrated by the Israeli government of the starvation and deprivation of basic humanitarian aid to the Palestinian civilians currently in Gaza, America and the current American President because he currently holds the power of the Presidency so he can stop this will pay a steep price. All people are God's children and people should take it as a given that God sees and hears the pleas of his Palestinian children in Gaza and President Trump would be prudent to stop this unconscionable deprivation, so he doesn't experience the wrath of God over this matter. If President Trump doesn't agree with the God viewpoint here he should recognize the view of countries throughout the world that see America as culpable with this unbelievable atrocity going on in Gaza and based on that concern should take action to stop it. What can he do? The Israeli government has a slight point prior to around four months ago Hamas was stealing and confiscating the aid and selling it and using the money obtained to fund its operation. Humanitarian aid organizations need to recognize this and cooperation with a fair solution. This is the fair solution and everyone needs to remember this arrangement needs to last only at most two years because a peace deal that brings about and end to Hamas and IDF forces in Gaza can and should be reached where if need be overwhelming pressure can be imposed on Hamas and the Israel government to accept the deal. This is the solution America opens up like fifteen warehouses across Gaza and on a weekly basis allows an aid station to do a pick-up of aid and take it to its distribution site the pick-up caravan can be surveilled by drones or a special forces task force to insure it doesn't deviate and returns to the aid station the trucks will be unloaded something like five hours could be granted the trucks will then be moved away from the aid site. No truck or SUV will be permitted to enter the aid station during this week interval any such truck or SUV action going to the aid site and leaving will be deemed a vehicle working for Hamas and after leaving the site will be destroyed by a helicopter or drone the vehicle will be given an opportunity to know it will be destroyed the helicopter or drone will make themselves obvious to the driver of the vehicle so the driver can stop and have all occupants can vacate besides this opportunity there will be no investigation even if three occupants are seen in the front seat of the vehicle the vehicle will be destroyed. Everyone needs to understand America is not playing games here we are not subjecting our citizens to a bombing or shooting conducting an investigation if it is a Hamas operation there is clear rules that will exist to stop to stop this aiding of Hamas and the rules will be enforced with no empathy or feelings. If UN aid organizations want to open and supply sites outside of this American system go for it and America won't involve itself with you but if you want to utilize this American supply chain you will follow American rules no complaining or whining will be given consideration later. Israel will open up multiple cross points into Gaza to allow U.S. truck caravans to move food from Israel to the American warehouses in Gaza. If Israel doesn't agree to this plan America will just impose it on Gaza and use supply ships on the Mediterranean Sea to bring in the food!
One hears in the media that the Gaza issue needs an ultimate peace deal to end the Gaza War but nobody is talking about solving the needed problems none of the government officials of any of the pertinent governments are addressing the needed issues. Hamas needs to be eliminated so to stop a resurgence of missile attacks on Israel from Gaza where the world would be back at square one and this is the crux of the problem this is the source of the poison that is killing people, the Hamas tunnel system, even today experts tell us sixty percent of the Hamas tunnel system in Gaza is still intact. With Hamas tunnel system Hamas has weapon depots and places to hide and plan their attacks on Israel and peaceful Palestinians in Gaza. The world has to come up with a system to destroy the Hamas tunnel system and keep it from being rebuilt. The world has the technology to build a living environment on the Moon and Artificial intelligence where it can make computers smarter than most human being it is completely unacceptable that the world cannot come up with a solution to the Hamas tunnel system problem. Gaza is relatively small like six miles deep and twenty-five miles long and right now the area is largely rubble why can't two long and big twenty-five mile tunnels be built under Gaza that will allow authorities to drill horizontal holes underneath the entirety of Gaza to identify potential Hamas tunnels that then they can be accessed from the surface and destroyed. Yes it will cost a few dollars but it is way cheaper to fund this then fund periodic wars between Israel and Palestinian terrorists in Gaza and the rebuilding. I think the American people would support such an operation because the Israel/Palestinian conflict is an oppressive matter on America and I think the American people want relief from this never ending problem and taking on this task by America will allow good Palestinians to get in control in Gaza and stop the Palestinian/Israeli violence which is an extreme burden on America and the World!
