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Leadership
In the USA, overall national energy will continue to attack China and the BRICS,
production has not only stagnated, but has becoming a stooge of the China bashing
actually fallen from 26,545 Terawatt hours rules-based order. He has already threatened
(TWh) in 2000 to 25,825 TWh in 2021, BRICS twice, an institution of over twenty
with an increased slide projected into the nations, which is the point of the spear for
coming decades by those same forces who the Global South. The BRICS bloc, (Brazil,
1) sabotaged America’s advanced energy Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt,
policies over the past decades and 2) wish Ethiopia, Iran, Indonesia, and the UAE),
to induce energy scarcity onto a frightened has a total population of around 3.3 billion,
populous in order to justify a culling of over 40% of the global population. BRICS
humanity to “sustainable levels”. countries account for approximately 46% of
global GDP.
In contrast, China has used this same 21-year
interval very differently, increasing its annual President Trump foolishly slapped sanctions
energy use from 12,470 TWh in 2000 to on China within his first two weeks in office,
43,791 TWh in 2021. and recently made accusations against South
Africa, a leading member of the BRICS.
The effects upon quality of life, per capita There is no inherent conflict between the
powers of labor, energy security, food genuine self-interest of nations. The conflict
production and educational opportunities emanates from the ravenous desire by
have increased dramatically. Western political-financial oligarchy for
supremacy. There is no objective reason that
The one child limit (imposed by Kissinger all nations cannot collaborate in fulfilling
and the Club of Rome 40 years ago) has been the common aim of humankind: the peaceful
abolished, and average longevity, which was development of all nations.
once led by the USA has been overtaken
by China, which has lifted the average life If President Trump is as smart as he
expectancy from 44 years in 1963 to 77. 5 proclaims to be, then he would understand
years today, and stands in stark contrast to that to make America great, we must make
the USA, whose average life expectance fell the World great.
to only 76.1 years of age as of September
2022.
China’s purchasing power parity has also
superseded that of the USA over the past few
years.
How Smart Is Trump?
It is too early to know if President Trump
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