Trump’s get-rich-quick foreign policy puts a price on everything, including peace by jerryadler
Psst! Do you run a country? Wanna get rich quick — even without massive reserves of oil? Let Donald Trump show you how!
And most of the money for the “peace” plan wouldn’t even come from the U.S.; Kushner wants America’s Middle Eastern, European and Asian allies to pony up a large share of it. “The whole notion here is that we want people to agree on the plan and then we’ll have a discussion with people to see who is interested in potentially doing what,” he told Reuters Television.
In Trump’s worldview a phenomenal location is a prime requisite to becoming economically a behemoth, and the president has lavishly praised North Korea’s potential as the venue for luxury golf courses, if Kim would just stop building atomic bombs and testing ICBMs. Specifically, he is fixated on a theory known as “mercantilism”, which measures comparative economic success among nations by their balance of trade, treating international commerce as a zero-sum game. Mercantilism had its heyday in the 16th through 18th centuries, but has been in decline more or less since Adam Smith wrote “The Wealth of Nations.
Saudi Arabia, very rich country. We defend them! We subsidize Saudi Arabia. They have nothing but cash, right? And they buy a lot from us. Four hundred fifty billion dollars, they bought. And you had people wanting to cut off Saudi Arabia. They bought $450 billion! I don’t want to lose them!“Take their money. Take their money, Chuck.”
"Palestine is not for sale," Ismail Rudwan, an official with Islamic militant group Hamas that governs Gaza, told NBC News."I laugh when they attack this as the 'Deal of the Century,'" Kushner said in an interview with Reuters on Saturday, referring to Palestinian leaders who have dismissed his plan as an attempt to buy off their aspirations for statehood.
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