It will be a costly 4 years, but Tweety's international trade strategy to take over the world will not succeed because the rest of the world CAN live without the United States. Modern communications and business technologies and intelligence enable all western nations to work deals without the United States.
Example:
"Canada’s Trump Strategy: Go Around Him"
The Interpreter
By MAX FISHER JUNE 22, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/world/canada/canadas-trump-strategy-go-around-him.html
"TORONTO — As President Trump disrupts alliances across the map, nearly every level of government in Canada has taken on new duties in a quietly audacious campaign to cajole, contain and if necessary coerce the Americans.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s strategy for managing Mr. Trump is unlike anything tried by another ally. And he has largely succeeded where even experienced leaders like Angela Merkel of Germany have fallen short."
Read this.
"By organizing a grass-roots network of American officials, lawmakers and businesses, Canada is hoping to contain Mr. Trump’s protectionist and nationalist impulses. Though emphasizing the benefits of harmony, the Canadians are not above flexing muscle, with a provincial government at one point quietly threatening trade restrictions against New York State.
“We don’t have the luxury that the Germans have of an ocean between us,” Mr. Burney said. “And we don’t have a Plan B.”"
More.
"His new foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, a former journalist with long experience in the United States and an unapologetic champion of the global liberal order, is seen as able to coax the Americans when possible and defy them when necessary.
Ms. Freeland’s team of America-whisperers includes Andrew Leslie, a former lieutenant general and Afghanistan veteran who knows many of the American generals filling out Mr. Trump’s administration.
Mr. Trudeau established a “war room” dedicated to the United States, headed by Brian Clow, an operative with the governing party who had worked on some of its most important election victories.
The new office sought to cultivate the people around Mr. Trump."
Look where Tweety's "strategy" can backfire; it is the Law of Unintended Consequences," a principle Tweety likely knows little if anything about. Or maybe Tweety thinks he can control every possible consequence in his arrogance and foolishness. What if the European Union gets STRONGER because of Tweety's actions? Stay tuned to the G20 coming soon.
"Is Trump Pushing Merkel to Create A German Superpower?"
Jacob Heilbrunn, 28 May 2017
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/trump-pushing-merkel-create-german-superpower-20892
"Donald Trump entered office hoping that he could splinter the European Union. But what if his presidency has the effect of further unifying it—against America?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's announcement that Europe can no longer rely on America as a partner and "must take our destiny into our own hands” marks a turning point."
"US threatening to stop financial regulation cooperation - Spiegel"
Fri Jun 30, 2017 | 7:54am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/g20-germany-usa-idUSL8N1JR31C
Why does America NEED to start a fight with Europe?
"Merkel Concerned G-20 Summit Could End in Fiasco"
Ahead of the Hamburg G-20 summit, the EU trade conflict with the U.S. is threatening to escalate. Both Brussels and Washington are looking into sanctions and Chancellor Merkel is concerned that a fiasco could ensue. By SPIEGEL Staff
By Peter Müllerr, Christoph Pauly, Christian Reiermann, Michael Sauga, Christoph Scheuermann, Christoph Schult and Gerald Traufetter
30 June 2017
"Wilbur Ross is the kind of man who is easy to underestimate. Approaching his 80th birthday in November, he seems slow at times and occasionally nods off during longer meetings. And sometimes, he does so even when his boss is holding an important speech only a feet away, as he did recently in Saudi Arabia.
Ross, though, is U.S. President Donald Trump's commerce secretary, a key cabinet position, and on Tuesday, he was wide-awake. Standing next to an American flag, he read out a speech that was being transmitted to Berlin via video link. Specifically, it was being broadcast into the ballroom of a luxury hotel where German Chancellor Angela Merkel and several hundred guests of the Economic Council, a German business association that is closely linked to Merkel's political party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), were listening."
This is not going to end well . . .
"He demanded that Germany buy raw materials from the United States instead of from Russia, lower tariffs on automobile imports from the U.S. and ensure that America "obtain a larger share" of the European market. Otherwise, he added, the government in Washington, D.C., would have no alternative but to "engage in self-help."
Ross had been allotted a speaking time of 10 minutes, but when he still hadn't finished after 30 minutes, the event participants had heard enough. They turned down the sound and switched off the video link. The U.S. commerce secretary disappeared from the screen, silenced like a political gadfly. Some in the audience laughed."
It might have been a nervous laugh, or a real chuckle, but in any case, making demands on allies is not a good thing, unless you offer something in return. Tweety offered NOTHING in return for his threats.
Europe says, "bring it!" and we will fight you! Try to bully Europe and you will lose Mr Tweety. In a modern world, you can only fight for four years. Europe can wait you out Mr. Tweety.
"Now, though, the Trump administration is reneging on numerous G-20 agreements because it doesn't see the world as a "global community," but as "an arena" in which countries "engage and compete for advantage," as National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Trump's economic adviser Gary Cohn wrote in a late May op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. Eat or be eaten: That is Washington's new foreign policy creed, one which doesn't have much in common with Merkel's image of a world with shared rights and regulations."
More.
"The U.S., for example, is demanding that Germany finally take measures to reduce its immense trade surplus. Washington is considering the introduction of a so-called "border adjustment tax," which would make numerous German products drastically more expensive in the United States. The Americans also want to impose new sanctions against Iran, which Europe opposes, and are demanding that Europe import more natural gas from the U.S. instead of from Russia."
"Of particular note, the list makes it clear that Europe and America are already threatening each other with retaliatory measures and reprisals on several issues.
Beef is a primary example. Since 1989, the import of hormone-treated meat has been banned in the EU for health reasons. It is a conflict that has appeared before the World Trade Organization several times and the U.S. has recently ignited it anew. Washington is demanding that Europe open its market to hormone-treated beef and has said that if Brussels doesn't acquiesce, punitive tariffs could be slapped on over 70 product groups or raise existing tariffs to more than 100 percent."
I repeat, Europe can wait out Tweety; he only has 3.5 years left, if he makes it THAT long.
"Currently, the signals seem to indicate trouble ahead. Washington views the European Commission's 2.4-billion-euro fine levied against Google on Tuesday due to the company's abuse of its market dominance as a hostile act. Meanwhile, Merkel's office believes that the Americans aren't just withdrawing from climate and trade consensus, but also from the G-20 process in general. "We are on a dangerous slippery slope," says finance expert and European parliamentarian Markus Ferber. "The USA is pulling back from international bodies. We can see it everywhere.""
In the end, maturity will win over child-like behaviors, I think/hope/pray.
"A Conciliatory ApproachMerkel is facing a difficult choice. Either she prioritizes consensus, which carries with it the risk that the summit's closing communiqué will be watered down to the point of meaninglessness. Or she tries to isolate Trump, at the risk of further damaging the already fragile trans-Atlantic relationship.
This week, it looked as though she were leaning toward compromise. After U.S. Trade Secretary Ross was cut off mid-speech during the event in Berlin, it was Merkel's turn to speak - and everyone was anxious to see how the chancellor would react to the attacks from Washington.
Merkel opted for a conciliatory approach. She seized on Ross' proposal to restart negotiations on a trans-Atlantic free-trade deal. What a great idea, she exulted. Such talks, she said, are the best way to solve existing conflicts."
Ms Merkel has a plan, and it will work. Negotiate! Take a few years "negotiating." IF Tweety lasts 3.5 years, the "deal" in the end will not be so bad . . . . and then America can start the healing process of rejoining he World.
