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COMMENTARY
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Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
My view is that Trump has the core characteristics of a spoilt 3 year old! Today ... June 14th 2025, Trump reaches 79 years old.
From what I know about Trump, he is one of the greediest men alive. Clever ... but mainly deployed for wrong reasons. He has been surrounded by enablers all his life and in the process has become financial wealthy. Many of the people who have made this possible have lost everything ... but Trump doesn't care!
I became a 'permanent resident' of the United States in the 1960s when I was in my 20s. The United States has been good to me ... but this is not true for a huge population of 'essential workers' who have come to the United States from different parts of the world nad have been exploited in a variety of ways for a very long time.
For a very long time, it has been recognised that the US immigration process is 'broken' ... but little of substance has been done over many decades to fix the problems.
The inability of the USA to improve the functioning of Government is not by chance, but mainly by design. There is a segment of the US population that 'profits' from the dysfunction of government and politics ... and this group of people have done everything in their power over many decades to maintain this chronic dysfunction!
Maybe ... just maybe ... the Trump generated chaos might mobilise Americans to address the core dysfunction of the country. This is not one big thing that needs to be 'fixed', and hundreds of isses that have gone unaddressed for years ... actually decades in many cases!
Sadly ... essential changes are not going to happen under Trump leadership. In fac, things I likely to get far worse before they get better.
Unfortunately for the United States. the free world outside the United States is organizing itself to protect itself against malevolent Trump initiatives. Many of these actions will be difficult to reverse, and it is likely that the USA will see a dangerous socio-enviro-economic decline for a long time ... not weeks or months but years and generations!
Most Americans do not understand that Americans are disliked by people in most of the rest of the world. In my case, as a teenager growing up in the UK, I remember the phrase 'The problem with Americans is that they are overweight, over-sexed and over here'. Non-Americans had to put upwith America and Americans because post WWII they got to dominate the global economy and every free country on the planet has to 'play nice' to the American power sructure ... commercial and political.
American domination has diminished significantly during the past decade or more. Much of modern economic analysis goes back to around 1980 and the Ronald Reagan Presidency.For me this is too short a time frame because more global change took place in the 40 years before 1980 than in the 40+ years since 1980.
One of the biggest economic events in all of history took place in 1973 when OPEC (the Oranization of Petroleum Exporting Counties) was created and implemented a 'oil boycott' that disrupted the global economy. Prior to this time the international price for a barrel of crude oil was US$3.50. Thanks to OPEC in 1973, this price increased to $13,50 a barrel by the end of the year and then to $30.00 a barrel before flucutating between aroun $40.00 and $100.00 a barrel for the rest of the deecade!
Prior to 1973, the United States was a profligate consumer of oil. Most of the world taxed the consumption of oil, but not the United States. Most of the world used oil way more efficently than the USA which was unimportant prior to 1973. After the OPEC driven price increase, much of American industry went into a profit crisis that dramatically changed the structure of industry in the USA. Three Presidents ... Nixon, Ford and Carter ... tried but failed to get the USA 'back on track' and in 1980s Ronald Reagan was elected.
Ronald Reagan was a Republican and a good communicator. In my view, many of his policy ideas were wrong and are actually resposible for much of the social and economic malaise that has increasingly infected the United States over the past 40+ years.
Peter Burgess