Trump Loosens Gulliver’s Ropes

Strong American leadership puts the world in shock.

June 12, 2018 Bruce Thornton

Donald Trump left the G7 meeting early to head for Singapore and meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. He left behind a disgruntled gaggle of Lilliputian states who have grown accustomed to U.S. leaders accepting the institutional ropes binding the world’s greatest power, and now are shocked and angry that an American leader is putting America’s interests first.

We don’t know how Trump’s high-stakes negotiating on trade and tariffs will turn out, or whether the American people can take any economic pain that may attend the correction of trade imbalances that have tended to favor our partners and rivals at the expense of our own economy. But we have long needed to concentrate our partners’ minds on the wisdom of changing their assumption that the United States will put itself second in order to uphold the “postwar world order” that frequently camouflages the subordination of our interests to theirs.

This “global order” is made up of the transnational institutions built on the rubble of two World Wars. The most important include the UN, NATO, the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, and the G7 group of the world’s richest economies representing 62% of global wealth, a total of $262 trillion. These multinational groups are supposed to keep the global peace, and manage the globalized economy so that it runs smoothly and equitably............The institutions like the G7 that manage and sustain those policies detrimental to our interests have been like the ropes the Lilliputians used to bind Gulliver until they could figure out how to exploit the giant to serve their own aims. Trump has started snapping the ropes and showing the world we’re no longer the “weak, pitiful giant” who subordinates our own interests to those of some mythic “global community.”..........To Read More....


My Take - This Gulliver's ropes analogy is truly approrpiate.  The giant is loose and the rest of the world needs to start paying attention.  Things are going to change radically from now on, as this is a President who isn't interested in what leftists, media, Democrats, internationalists, globalists, leaders of Europe, China and Russia think or say. 

What a shocker this must be for them after a stupid child like Obama and a blithering idiot like Kerry. 

Here's what it comes down to.  We don't need them.  They need us.  And if they're going to play in our game, they'll play by our rules or they're out of the game.  It's just that simple!