Tariffs on our goods? The Reserve Currency peg is a built in 20 percent tariff on the top. That is there due to the whole NATO scheme.
Have you ever heard of Huawei? Look into Huawei and 5G and that's just one matter among many. See the payoff in overwhelming gratitude from the deadbeat NATO countries for 75 years of sheltering under the eagle's wing. Smell the smell of German and French treachery. No, they are not helping.
So how's that balance of trade in the EU? Terrible. Hundreds of millions flowing their way every year, on top of our defense spending. We get nothing from this association but the shaft. Our industry does fine for itself, but it can't compete so long as the Dollar is the reserve currency and has a built in 20 percent downside for domestic manufacturing, so they offshore! A great deal for everyone... oh, wait.
Hegemony and Empires are great little moneymakers for the investor class but not so good for the 'servant' class. We have a service economy now, don't you know. It was announced by George the First in his 'New World Order' speech, and fully implemented by Bill, so 'learn to code.'
Empires are funny things, the British Empire for example got rich but the British people not so much compared to the USA, Australia and Canada. I don't know about you, but I don't want to have to match my wage with that paid in Vietnam.
NATO might be worth something, but not at the present price-tag and not at the unequal trade balance that we have maintained to nurture these economies in the postwar period. The whole situation and reason for its being has changed and its further utility is debatable. Certainly not as the shield over an EU superstate that has an intellectual leadership class that despises the USA and would instantly pile on any misfortune that they could bring to us. I would trust the Russians before them.
Russia is no danger to nuclear armed Europe. Much the reverse in fact. Merkle and the EU have been aggressively expanding East and the Russian Federation does not want a German army on its border. NATO, in the person of GHW Bush, swore never to set foot East of Germany and Clinton used NATO to attack the Serbs, proving that the US is too schizophrenic to be trusted.
All Russian military moves are reactions to aggression, reactions that have been carefully stripped of context by western media and portrayed as pure aggression.
The Germans have long planned to create the EU as a true nation-state with its own army, and the Russians are unenthusiastic about a German army on its border. I share their lack of enthusiasm.
To the East, we have the argument that Samsung would go away, along with Sony, Nintendo etc.
What a shame that would be for them to go the way of Ampex, Zenith, Motorola, and all the other electronic giants that once existed in the US and couldn't compete against MITI and direct support from the Japanese and Korean States. Losing that foriegn vampire sucking money out would be tragic.
Those pirates would be coming over the rail of all those American ships and killing all those American sailors... Oh, wait, there are only a handful of US flag boomers. Pirates are not an American problem. Only American problems should be addressed by American arms.