In the queue to negotiate

Donald Trump has got us where he wants us. And the greatest thing, as Herrera would say, is how he rejoices. Now we can ask anyone for anything in exchange for a reduction, Trump said on Air Force One on his way to his Mar a Lago mansion in Florida, where he is spending the weekend.

For the moment, he is continuing with his strategy of stupefaction: exaggerated, provocative, insulting decisions to shock his interlocutors and achieve his predetermined objectives. Even if they are negative at first for the United States itself. 

Now everyone is going to offer Trump something to lower his tariffs and the US president will take advantage of it to benefit as he had planned. The measure has included 185 countries from all over the world, even small islands lost in the Pacific, but the one most affected, the main target, is China with tariffs of 54%. It has responded in kind. At stake is world hegemony and the great adversary and enemy for Trump is China and the bridge countries such as Vietnam that Beijing uses to export to the United States. 

No one is spared at least 10%, but what Donald Trump intends is to force everyone to negotiate, he doesn't distinguish, he has imposed tariffs on everyone to force them to pay up. And he makes no secret of it: this is not how it starts but how it will end and I am sure that the United States is going to win a lot, Trump is keen.  

For the moment, the stock market losses in the United States are in the billions and the spectre of recession hovers over the United States. We will see if the Trump Administration is capable of managing the economic and commercial tsunami it has set in motion around the world. It has imposed tariffs on Ukraine, which is at war, while Russia is being saved from the brunt of the sanctions. The big target is China while the Europeans protest, each country thinks about its own interests, like France, which is calling for an end to investments in the United States, or Italy, which is calling for calm and negotiation, like the President of the European Commission. In Spain, Trump has worked a miracle: the Sánchez government is calling on the PP to reach a consensus on the decisions to be taken, after claiming to be the champion against Trump, and he is going to China in a few days. 

Negotiate, negotiate and negotiate, and something significant announced by Marco Rubio: the United States will remain in NATO, but with European allies increasing defence spending by 5% for their own security and defence, because the United States has to devote many resources to its war with China.