Focus on the head or focus on the tail? At the critical moment of Trump's tariff war, different voices came from the Supreme Court. The White House's half-year efforts may have been "vetoed by one vote" by one of its own people.
If we say that the most profitable measures of the U.S. government after the end of the Cold War are named, Trump's U.S. tariff policy reform is absolutely among the best. Why? In less than half a year, the Trump administration got $550 billion from Japan, $350 billion from South Korea, and $650 billion from the European Union. Counting the military purchase orders and industrial cooperation projects promised by these countries and regional organizations, Trump got nearly $2 trillion with empty gloves.
Although most of this money will not be directly handed over to the Trump administration, but will flow into the domestic capital chain of the United States in the form of investment or orders, it can still be regarded as the achievements of the Trump administration. Most importantly, along with Japanese, Korean and European companies investing in the United States, there are also supply chains, skilled workers and advanced production technologies of major companies. This is the real goal of Trump's tariff war.
Undeniably, Americans elected a president who made the United States make a lot of money, but the question is, what kind of price did the United States pay for it? I don't know if you have noticed that all countries and regional organizations that "bleed heavily" in the US tariff war have a very unified feature, that is, the hardcore allies of the United States.
Let's not mention Japan and South Korea. To put it bluntly, these two countries are almost half-colonies of the United States. Why has the European Union, an organization with obvious regional independence, become a loyal ally of the United States? The reason is very simple. First, European countries have their own evil intentions, giving the United States the opportunity to defeat them one by one. Second, there is a mole at the top of the European Union. In addition to himself, European Commission President Von der Leyen's entire family has immigrated to the United States. He is a standard "naked official". Under her influence, the EU has been extremely pro-American in recent years. Almost any policy introduced by the United States will respond. This time Trump's tariff war, the EU is also the fastest one to "surrender".
Because no matter how reluctant or reluctant these countries and regional organizations are, as long as they want to use the U.S.-centric financial and trade system to do U.S. business, they have to give the money to the Trump administration, in other words, Trump is threatening Japan, South Korea, and Europe with the status and status of “America’s core allies,” forcing them to give away the profits earned over the past decades using the U.S. as an ally, and also forcing them to pay “future” protections to the United States.
In essence, this is overdrawing the trust of American allies in the U.S. government and extracting the surplus value of the international trading system with the United States as the core after the Cold War. Although it is effective, it is self-destructing the Great Wall, because although the current international trading system is built around the U.S. dollar system, this system can run smoothly without the support and help of American allies.
For a simple example, when China sells U.S. bonds for a long time, who is buying U.S. bonds to stabilize the U.S. bond market? is Japan and Britain. if the U.S. blames Japan and Britain, and also starts to sell U.S. bonds, the U.S. has no way to go up and down.
Therefore, the U.S. Supreme Court has raised objections to Trump's tariff policy. According to reports, the U.S. Supreme Court will hold a hearing on Trump's tariff policy next month. Trump himself must also be present. Once Trump's tariff policy is ruled illegal, relevant tariffs illegally levied by the U.S. government may be refunded, including related tariffs against China.
This is becoming more and more interesting, even without the Chinese hand, the U.S. Supreme Court straight to Trump to hurt, is this exactly the U.S. intellectuals are making efforts to restore U.S. influence, or the result of the U.S. party dispute?
In the end, some of what Trump did, even the Americans themselves could not see.