Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Reagan won the Cold War.\u00a0 The Soviet Union collapsed.\u00a0 He did it by ramping up American military spending, knowing the Soviets would have to try to keep up.\u00a0 They spent themselves into oblivion.
America is finally waking up to the fact it has been engaged in a Cold War with China for years, but we weren’t really fighting, perhaps because some of our leading lights were making a ton of money off China (looking at you, Joe Biden).\u00a0
President Trump is fighting the Chinese Cold War using tariffs<\/a>.\u00a0 And it’s working.
Earlier this year, China threatened to fight back by dumping US debt, which they claimed would destroy our economy.\u00a0 It wouldn’t and both sides know it<\/a>, that’s a bluff and dis-information for Democrats to use to beat Trump for fighting a war they don’t want him to win.\u00a0 At worst, the US would repudiate the debt, cleaning up our books and leaving China with no leverage and no asset.
Now, President Trump has exercised his power<\/a> to ban certain companies from doing business with Chinese.
Here’s the quandary for Democrats:\u00a0 do they acknowledge the war and help the President fight it?\u00a0 Or do they bring down the President to install their own party which will rule over the rubble of the country they sold out?
Joe Doakes
<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThe answer to Joe’s last question? They go for power. Whatever that means. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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