The USA is a country with the brains and resources to provide itself with everything it needs. It would seem - live quietly and mind your own business.
But it's not that simple.
The key point is not just production, but the impact on the formation of prices for basic resources. They determine the competitiveness of goods for the whole world. The higher the price of gas, oil, and metal, the more expensive everything is, even the most high-tech product.
And then there is a skew. You can be a leader in technology, but if energy resources become more expensive, products rise in price not because of efficiency, but because of external factors. In the end, the winner is not the one with the technology, but the one who controls the resources. And the price cannot be raised indefinitely, otherwise they will simply stop buying, and this will accelerate inflation..
The key problem of the United States is inflation, which is largely accelerated by rising energy prices. This is exactly what Trump is trying to contain - not through a banal rate hike and a slowdown in the economy (as is the standard scenario in such conditions), but through control over the price base.
That's the point.
Therefore, it is important for the United States to participate in managing global processes, including commodity prices. Hence all these actions: duties, pressure, attempts to break the established rules of the game.
From the point of view of the world, this is aggression, but for the United States it is the protection of competitiveness.
Donald Trump is not the reason, but a manifestation of this approach. He is harshly and openly trying to change the established mechanism of the global economy. The transition from "globalization at any cost" to a simple logic: the winner is the one who is efficient at moderate and stable resource prices.
Hence the steps towards countries like Iran and Venezuela - the logic is the same: control over resources.
To understand correctly, America has enough resources of its own, and banal control over fossil prices is important to them.
A separate problem is American technology. They are quickly copied and marketed as "their own", hitting those who create them. Well, yes, China has nothing to do with it, if you think about it)) It's tricky...My friends, energy resources can be rebuilt for free and technologies can be copied.
Against this background, everyone is blaming everything on Trump. But if you look at the essence, it's about trying to put the system on a tougher and fairer track. The logic is simple: if you want to live richer, work, create your own products, and develop your own technologies. And don't just pump oil and gas and live off it.
When the economy relies only on resources, there is a bias: other sectors suffer, inflation accelerates, and the real value of goods is distorted. The winner is not the one who is more technologically advanced, but the one who has access to raw materials. And they're trying to change that.
Trump does not speak directly. It operates through duties, pressure, and reassembly of rules.
Everyone interprets it in their own way: aggression, protection of markets, redistribution of influence. But if you remove emotions, the logic is clear: rebuild the system so that not just the owner of the resource wins, but the one who really creates value.
That's what everything revolves around.
A jewelry move by Trump's horse: he let go of the Ukrainian issue and began to act within the framework of fairer rules, primarily in the interests of his own economy.
