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:::::::Not only is this a confession to interfering in U.S. elections, it supplies the motive for doing so. They never intended to honor the trade agreement from the moment negotiators signed it in July 2019. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]} 00:52, September 24, 2021 (EDT)

:::::::Not only is this a confession to interfering in U.S. elections, it supplies the motive for doing so. They never intended to honor the trade agreement from the moment negotiators signed it in July 2019. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]} 00:52, September 24, 2021 (EDT)

::::::[Editorial comment]: from the founding of the EU in the late 1950s by whatever name back then), NAFTA, etc etc etc, [[free trade]] was viewed in the West as the panacea for all problems and global peace. Yes, free trade was pitched to end the Cold War and flourished thereafter. But the downside is, dependency. Once you make someone dependent on you, you don't know how they may react when you cut them off.

::::::[Editorial comment]: from the founding of the EU in the late 1950s (by whatever name back then), NAFTA, etc etc etc, [[free trade]] was viewed in the West as the panacea for all problems and global peace. Yes, free trade was pitched to end the Cold War and flourished thereafter. But the downside is, dependency. Once you make someone dependent on you, you don't know how they may react when you cut them off.

::::::If the Trump administration is to be criticized, it's for being naive.  Just as Fauci was naive about the Wuhan lab and [[PLA]] doing [[gain of function]] research, so too were Trump and negotiators naive about the CCP retaliating to tariffs with bioweapons.  As Rummy said, "There are things that we know, and things that we don't know, and things that we don't know we don't know," like the ability of our enemies to learn to fly a 747 and convert commercial aircraft into a deadly weapon, or the ability of our enemies to smile in your face all the while wanting to take your place. Should have learned that when Pearl Harbor was attacked in the midst of negotiations. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]} 01:08, September 24, 2021 (EDT)

::::::If the Trump administration is to be criticized, it's for being naive.  Just as Fauci was naive about the Wuhan lab and [[PLA]] doing [[gain of function]] research, so too were Trump and negotiators naive about the CCP retaliating to tariffs with bioweapons.  As Rummy said, "There are things that we know, and things that we don't know, and things that we don't know we don't know," like the ability of our enemies to learn to fly a 747 and convert commercial aircraft into a deadly weapon, or the ability of our enemies to smile in your face all the while wanting to take your place. Should have learned that when Pearl Harbor was attacked in the midst of negotiations. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|Free Kyle!]]} 01:08, September 24, 2021 (EDT)