There is no such thing as "American, or e.g. German intelligence" - only e.g. American or e.g. German spread/propagated intelligence reports/contents, that are politically manipulated.
The Western intelligence services plus some "outsiders" are ALL fully interconnected/interwoven - in order to obtain an all encompassing situational report. In order to know about "withheld" knowledge amongst national agencies, they regularly spy onto each other.
E.g. The German BND, British MI6, France's DGSE - clearly refuted Mossad reports regarding WMD's in Iraq.
However Mossad reports suited Bush's agenda.
I agree that they suited Bush's agenda, but you have a rather simplistic view of intelligence reports in general. Yes, agendas shape each government's tone or what they reveal and withhold, but the significance of Mossad's intelligence concerning Iran is that Israel has more of a reason to be wary of Iran than most other nations. It's much easier for EU nations, for example, to turn a blind eye to Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Who in politics, cares about Media reports?? - only those who fear a momentary direct negative impact onto an e.g. election, aka candidate, due to an oppositions controlled Media reports.
If Media reports would have any say in pursuing/directing politics - then the 2nd A - would no-more exist in the USA.
It is the politicians and their elitists that control the Media - thus spreading their own respective bull and not the other way around.
Neutral and professional journalism went extinct latest in the 80'ies.
Journalism has never been neutral and it never will be. Anything involving humanity is very unlikely to be neutral, or at least not for very long. The point is that Acosta tried to undermine any of Trump's efforts at normalizing relations with North Korea by injecting himself into the situation.
Kim Jong Un got a taste of President Trump’s pain when CNN star Jim Acosta peppered the world leaders with grandstanding questions following their historic summit in Singapore early Tuesday.
www.foxnews.com
Wrong - Putin send increasingly Russian troops into a sovereign nation to take control of Donbas and Luhansk during Trumps term.
These forces allowed Putin to channel/direct Russian-Ukrainian sentiments in favor of Russia. Trump never called onto Putin to stop this "illegal" maneuver, but even encouraged it, simply by doing nothing about it.
Ukraine hasn't been "sovereign" since its supposed independence. Every regime that has taken power there has either been a pawn of the West or a pawn of Russia. It is true that Russia has been involved in supporting separatists in Donbas since 2014, but they didn't actually enter that region with their own troops until 2022.
Tariffs don't work - and never have, over and out. See these existing idiotic tariffs between the EU and the USA.
It is the respective e.g. American and European industry that knowingly sold out it's own interest and that of their countries aka people to make a fast buck and push stock prices during the respective term of CEO's and respective company owners. Western countries do not possess the political ability to control private industry directly such as e.g. China - and due to their stance, to privatize state held industries since the 90'ies, they even lost the remaining control.
Tariffs certainly work better than nationalization, unless your goal is to run industry into the ground.
However there are political tools such as declaring e.g. hightech goods or goods of national security - that then simply can't be sold or transferred. Biden implemented this severely during his term. Thus screwing up the chances for US companies to make a profit that in turn relies onto such profits to finance further and future development. Simply becasue there is no alternative market for the USA to compensate losses in the Chinese market. same goes for the EU.
You simply can't profit from e.g. China for 30 years - thus increasing the US GDP and maximizing US corporate profits, and then trying to cut down via tariffs without having an alternative market. So how many US$trillions did the USA and the EU spend since 1980 to develop markets and future markets in Africa, South-America and Asia? The EU focused foremost onto Russia, and is now sanctioning their own future market - great!!
The USA didn't develop markets at all - only exploiting third countries cheap labor and resources and franchising their brands - pure shortsighted capitalism. US companies solely came to China to profit from cheap labor - producing foremost for their own US market and existing market in e.g. the EU. They never managed nor beheld a valid strategy to penetrate the Chinese market aka producing in China for China.
Several German industries manged to do just that - now they whine that China constitutes 30-70% of their overall business, because the idiotic German government has joint the US crusade against China - great!!
So, again, I ask. What is your solution? Just let China continue to steal tech with no repercussions?
It is true that China doesn't posses a single super carrier (estimated costs for a new one in the USA around US$18 Billion) and that does NOT include maintenance and running costs!! MAGA's love to highlight this US military supremacy - and are now asking Europe to pay for it - via "unpaid NATO bills" bullshit.
It's not bullshit. Even many European officials are reluctantly admitting that Europe has allowed itself to be too dependent on American military might when it comes to NATO.
The US's high spending on the military has been one of the main reasons most of the EU could instead spend on infrastructure and entitlements so much during the Cold War.
China has spend an estimated US$ 1.5-2.0 Trillion onto it's Belt&road initiative (future markets) in the past 10 years - plus US$ Trillions into their own country, whilst the USA has spend about US$ 7 Trillion just alone onto it's war on terror !!!
Whilst the Democrats believe they can simply continue as ever before, however with less direct military involvement (and simply printing money for ever) - Trump babbles about unpaid NATO bills, and Make America Great Again.
There is no "national spirit" in the USA at all, neither in the EU - unlike e.g. China. Only "bla bla patriotism" beheld foremost by those who have absolutely no say in a "fake democracy" and additionally prefer to spend a 1000+ bucks onto some needless gun and ammo, (to live the American dream) whilst buying their daily goods at Walmart - provided by China, Vietnam, Brazil, Gambia, etc. etc. and cheering onto Trump.
I'll give you one thing: nationalism is definitely better than the globalism that the West has embraced. However, the form of nationalism that China has embraced is oppressive as hell. Also, the investment China has been engaging in is more like the modern form of colonialism. They're doing it to strip various areas of raw materials. Much of the investment has not and will not be beneficial to the affected nations in the long run.
BTW - around 400 million guns in the USA at approx. US$ 800 each - Americans spend around US$ 320 Billion on guns - wonder how many jobs those guns supply??
Gun industry: e.g. Smith&Wesson - revenue US$ 800 million in 2022 and 2200 employees
Automotive Industry: e.g. XXX drive system - revenue US$ 750 million and 3400 employees
So does the USA need to focus onto it's respective industry segments - or tell people, please buy more guns, and make people pay for tariffs?
Guns aren't about stimulating the economy. They simply serve as a way for people to hunt and defend themselves.
