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With the US military dropping more bombs that its manufacturers can crank out, the risk is run that they might actually run out of the blasted things. Add to this the fact that many of the materials originate from a single producer or from a foreign supplier, particularly China.
Therefore, Washington finds itself in a tight spot as some of its components are even leaving the market, leaving America with fewer options to consider as it goes about the world bombing everything in sight.

Here are key excerpts from the most concise, accurate, and clearest, news-reports about something that almost all U.S. news-media have been completely hiding (issuing no reports about, though the theft indisputably happened and grows each year) — a theft of $65,000 from each American.

On May 17th, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee voted 10 to 5 to approve Gina Haspel as America’s new chief of the Central Intelligence Agency. Back in 2002, she had headed the CIA’s “black site” in Thailand where she ordered and oversaw the torturing of Abu Zubaydah, trying to force him to provide evidence that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks, but Zubaydah had no such evidence and wasn’t even able credibly to concoct a story that President George W. Bush could use to ‘justify’ America’s invading Iraq in response to 9/11.

After Trump declared that doing business with China was bad business and bad for the US, because of America’s trade deficit with China and China’s alleged ‘unfair’ business practices, he levied tariffs on Chinese imports, which were quickly followed by Chinese retaliatory measures, which the US then countered with yet another round of tariffs.

Germany’s main commercial organization, the DIHK, representing nearly 80 chambers of commerce, is expressing concern that Trump’s ‘America First’ philosophy could threaten business relationships between the US and Germany.

Machiavelli once said “a man will sooner forget the death of his father than the loss of his patron”. Trump is doing exactly that to the whole world, one country at a time, while citing his ‘America first’ philosophy. He’s not waging hot wars on them, he’s hitting them right where it hurts most – the pocket book.

It’s no secret that Germany has many deep ties with America that seem to be completely unbreachable. But in the face of Trump’s ‘America first’ policy, those ties are feeling some strain. America first, by definition, means that America’s interests, across all sectors, get the top priority above those of all others, and even in spite of them, with heavy emphasis on the ‘spite’ part.

In addition to withdrawing from the 2015 UNSC Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear development program, brokered under the Obama administration, much to the dismay of each of the other signatories, the Trump admin is now looking to create an international ‘coalition’ against Iran, modeled after the 75 member coalition to defeat ISIS.

After over a year of poor relations between Moscow and Germany spanning a multitude of issues ranging from Russia’s annexation of Crimea, differences in position relative to the ongoing war in Syria, alleged hacking of the German FM office, and the alleged poisoning of the Skripals, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set t

Remember how the US decided that China is being aggressive about its economic growth, even to the point of imposing a 25% tariff on Chinese made products, to which China responded with countermeasures?
Remember when Trump said that ‘trade wars are good and easy to win’?