Cooperation, the Global Economy, and Endless War
Working together on the global economy avoids conflict, and conflict over the economy can possibly end civilization.
Two headlines really caught my attention over the last two days.
The first is from MarketWatch:
China and the U.K. have the opposite problem. They just struck a deal.
The meeting between the two nations was specifically about bond yields, China’s plummeting and the U.K.’s surging. But the truly positive aspect of the meeting was the two countries’ cooperation. The result appears to have been a win-win:
The U.K. Treasury says the cooperation will be worth at least £600 million ($727 million) to the U.K. economy over the next five years.
What China was getting can be found less in what was said [than] what was not said — the U.K. has not followed the U.S., Canada and the European Union in levying big tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles.
This positive meeting result now will allow the two countries to communicate more easily on the economy and other vital issues.
Now, look at this headline Sunday from CCN, the website covering cryptocurrency:
US-China Tensions Escalate in 2025: CATL Blacklisted, Tencent Placed on Military List
The article lists three takeaways -- all negative results to the U.S. aggressive action:
The U.S. Department of Defense has designated CATL and Tencent as “Chinese military companies,” escalating trade and political tensions.
The designation harms reputations, deters partnerships with U.S. firms, and may lead to future sanctions.
Rising tariffs and retaliatory actions threaten global trade stability.
No Win-Win…War-Win
Clearly here we see no cooperation. No mention of a meeting to negotiate, and if there was one, certainly no positive outcome.
And pay attention to the third takeaway: the first two deal with China and the U.S., but the third shows that the aggressive actions will have a global negative effect.
Particularly disturbing: The catalyst of the aggression is the U.S. Department of Defense, our country’s war arm. Not the Biden Administration’s State Department or trade divisions.
The logic here is simple: the military-industrial complex – which President Eisenhower (a former Army general and war hero) warned us about – needs conflict to continue to exist.
You may have noticed our nation has been involved in Endless War for decades. Korea. Vietnam. Afghanistan. Yemen. Iraq. Syria. And those are just the major ones. We’ve a battlefield full of global interventions. Guess why.
Read the Forbes 2023 article How the Defense Industry Became a Defining Feature of The U.S. Economy.
That’s why.
Ending Endless War…Expect Nukes
In 2019, The New York Times carried a powerful opinion piece by Dr. Stephen Wertheim, a historian who writes about American foreign policy: The Only Way to End ‘Endless War’. The subhead: “First, America has to give up its pursuit of global dominance.”
Wertheim criticized recent presidents for their abetting the Endless War continuum. And he included Donald Trump:
President Trump, despite criticizing Middle East wars, has intensified existing interventions and threatened to start new ones. He has abetted the Saudi-led war in Yemen, in defiance of Congress. He has put America perpetually on the brink with Iran. And he has lavished billions extra on a Pentagon that already outspends the world’s seven next largest militaries combined.
That was in 2019. Don’t expect his wannabe-dictator attitude and actions to change. A dictator needs an aggressive military. History shows that.
“Make America Great Again.” The Trumpian call is just another term for American Exceptionalism and the pursuit of global dominance.
Trying to dominate the global economy rather than cooperating in building the global economy can only end up as it always does: a bloody world war.
And we’re seeing that now, really with all the global conflict, being fed by the two nations who lead in global weapons sales: the U.S. and Russia.
Also remember: Trump would rather end nuclear treaties than build them. And Russia seems happy to oblige.
I’ve written about how Barak Obama’s initiating a trillion-dollar, ten-year rebuilding of America’s nuclear arsenal led to China and Russia building theirs. And now we see other nations anxious to grow their own nuclear stockpiles.
This will not end well.
Unless the American people force Congress to change its suicidal support of military buildup and aggression.
The question is…Do YOU want it to change? Do you want Endless War to end?
If you do, you’ll need to get organized (you can’t do it alone). You’ll need to educate yourself to the issue and how to bring about change. And you and your fellow citizens will have to get ACTIVE in bringing change about.
As I often say…and mean it…your children and grandchildren will thank you.
China and the U.K. have the opposite problem. They just struck a deal. (msn.com)
US-China Tensions Escalate in 2025: CATL Blacklisted, Tencent Placed on Military List (msn.com)
List of wars involving the United States - Wikipedia
How The Defense Industry Became A Defining Feature Of The U.S. Economy (forbes.com)
Why the U.S. is trapped in "endless war" - Big Think
Opinion | The Only Way to End ‘Endless War’ - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Will Your Children Make It to 2026? - by Roger Armbrust (substack.com)
You can read more about nuclear devastation, endless war, and Donald Trump’s fascism in my book published by Parkhurst Brothers Publishers: