The Trump Administration is creating international confrontations to encourage the US voter rally-around-the President-in-times-of crisis-effect. Its an election year you know , November 3rd... So Trump:
- ordered closure of China's Houston Consulate. China may retaliate by closing a similar sized US
Consulate in China - maybe the one in Hong Kong? Or China may expel 10+ US diplomats from
the US Embassy Beijing, for spying.
- has doubled the number of Nimitz-class carrier battle groups to 2 in China's near seas, to encourage
in a Chinese reaction. Also see the rise in US warship FONOPs in the South China Sea in 2020.
- Trump is working with his good friend Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, on a plan for
Israel to annex areas of the West Bank before the November 2020 Elections. Trump will step
into this timely crisis as "Peacemaker" to make Israel and some Palestinians happy. Arab countries
will likely object, raising the price of oil, worrying Americans as they rally-around President
Trump.
Timely confrontations with Iran, Russia (thankyou Trump's friend Putin) or North Korea might also be the types of crises to boost votes for Trump.
One can always say that crises happen anyway and China's actions deserve reactions. But get ready for a predictable "inexplicable" increase in crises - before November 3, 2020.
Pete
- ordered closure of China's Houston Consulate. China may retaliate by closing a similar sized US
Consulate in China - maybe the one in Hong Kong? Or China may expel 10+ US diplomats from
the US Embassy Beijing, for spying.
- has doubled the number of Nimitz-class carrier battle groups to 2 in China's near seas, to encourage
in a Chinese reaction. Also see the rise in US warship FONOPs in the South China Sea in 2020.
- Trump is working with his good friend Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, on a plan for
Israel to annex areas of the West Bank before the November 2020 Elections. Trump will step
into this timely crisis as "Peacemaker" to make Israel and some Palestinians happy. Arab countries
will likely object, raising the price of oil, worrying Americans as they rally-around President
Trump.
Timely confrontations with Iran, Russia (thankyou Trump's friend Putin) or North Korea might also be the types of crises to boost votes for Trump.
One can always say that crises happen anyway and China's actions deserve reactions. But get ready for a predictable "inexplicable" increase in crises - before November 3, 2020.
Pete