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While discussing the defeat of the Italian referendum and it’s possible impacts, someone raised the question “Are you guys expecting any cabinet announcements tomorrow?” and while we were kicking both subjects around, I had an epiphany. The nice part of an epiphany is it sounds so much better than “a moment of clarity” which may be more accurate.

Everyone in the mainstream media and everyone writing on a blog has been thinking very 2D, to give Scott Adams his due. My epiphany is, “Trump HAS been telling everyone his foreign policy vision for 18 months.”

We just haven’t thought through what it means.

Remember the ’80’s movie “Red Dawn” where the Soviet Union staged the ultimate hostile take over of the United States? Folks, that was nothing. We may be in for Orange Dawn -Trump’s Global Leveraged Buy Out Plan.

My epiphany arose out of making the case the Italian referendum’s defeat could be the first pebble in an economic avalanche which causes the European banks, and thereby the EU itself, to collapse – all while pondering WHY Trump has seemed so interested in the possibility of naming Mitt Romney as Secretary of State.

Romney is beloved by the Establishment but since “making nice” isn’t the first thing one associates with Donald Trump, there has to be some other motivation. Romney’s biggest accomplishments are his business experience and saving the Winter Olympics.

The first centered on leveraged buy outs, restructuring and making failures economic successes. The second was taking a massive failure in progress and making it a success …

Holy Shit!

For every time some expert on TV or MSM idiot belittled “Trump’s lack of a clear foreign policy agenda” – we ought to get to smack the crap out of them!

Why?

President-Elect Trump has said at least once a day for 18 months “We are going to cancel TPP and withdraw from NAFTA. We are going to negotiate much better deals that are fair to American workers!”

All on it’s own, that is a Big Fucking Deal when it comes to foreign policy.

Don’t believe me? Tweet Sebastian Gorka and ask him.

BFD #1

In a Trump administration, Foreign Policy is ALL about economics and trade deals. You know who would be looking over the Secretary of State’s shoulder on trade negotiations? Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross.

Let’s go back to the idea of the EU collapsing. I think anyone who reads this blog KNOWS already that is a BFD. If the EU collapses, China suffers an “economic stroke” because the EU is China’s largest trade partner. With at least half of the EU abandoning the euro, China will be taking losses they can’t begin to deal with given how much debt they’ve loaded into EVERY aspect of their economy.

While China is dealing with their problems, let’s not forget the American banks aren’t a whole lot better off than the worst of the worst, Deutsche Bank. Here’s a link back to the risky banks headline from the summer:

Or that J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America are in the fourth, fifth and sixth most risky positions.

Now we’ve laid out the problems, let’s lay out …

BFD #2

The Trump administration is almost certain to face a possible Global Economic Collapse – which means the biggest political crisis would be an economic crisis. It doesn’t have to be Romney but it would be a BIG advantage to have someone who has in depth knowledge of business, trade and economics who was skilled at politely calling out solutions from other countries’ Foreign Ministers as the economic bullshit they would undoubtedly be.

Remember when everyone was focused before the election on whoever was elected would be picking 2 – 3 Supreme Court justices?

Yea, still important, but nothing to do with Trump’s continuing focus on the economy in all of its aspects. Trump views his expanded list of judges as something Attorney General Sessions would review and make up a short list with his recommendation. Boom! that problem is already solved as far as Trump is concerned.

Just as important?

President Trump will get to select 5 of the 7 governors of the Federal Reserve in the next 24 months – including naming the person to replace “Clueless Yellen” as Chair of the F.O.M.C.. The learned (pronounced in this case as learn-ED) people are debating if Yellen would resign as Chair in deference to a new President.

My take?

If the EU and China are collapsing economically, Yellen will resign so fast she will have bolted to academia BEFORE her resignation email makes it to Trump’s Inbox, but Trump will have named his personally chosen nominee before she gets on a plane.

Why is this important?

One of the nasty little facts of the 2008 Crisis is the Federal Reserve not only back-stopped and bailed out the Too Big Too Jail banks here in the U.S., it also bailed out a lot of European and other “friendly nation” banks around the world. Yep, WE took on THEIR risk and do you know what we got in return for saving their economic asses while Obama was making his Apology Tour? The deeds to the Parthenon, Coliseum, Eiffel Tower and Kensington Palace?

NOPE! We got nada, nothing, zilch! and they STILL lecture us on how WRONG we are in ALL aspects of everything we do.

BFD #3

The 2008 Economic Crisis was actually a Foreign Policy crisis as well. Who made ALL the decisions related to this global political crisis?

Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, who never met a banker he wouldn’t service.

Let’s take Trump’s repeated admonition,

“We should have taken the oil.” as another way of saying,

“Next time they need us, they are going to pay in advance before we save their asses.”

See BFD #2 above. If there is a Global Economic Crisis, BEFORE we help any other country – I hope Trump’s foreign policy will include negotiating deals to reset America’s ‘global economic & political clock’ to August 1, 1990 – after the fall of the USSR but before outsourcing and globalization economically gutted the country’s manufacturing and professional skills base.

Oh, yeah … AND letting America set the GLOBAL laws for banking and trade so, as the song says, “we don’t get fooled again!”

Any country NOT willing to take THIS deal?

Enjoy the Dark Ages Part II!

Orange Dawn – be sure you don’t tell anybody!