Destruction of Power & G20

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If it was not yet obvious, a dumb Trump has significantly reduced American power. First big step was the destruction of a major TPP trade deal involving so many East Asian, North American, and South American nations. A major negotiation that took something just less than ten years.

Today will be another major indication. The biggest meeting the G20 will be between Merkel (Germany) and Xi (China). As BBC so bluntly notes, the major meeting would have once involved the US. But in power circles, US influence is waning quickly.

Germany is the undisputed power in Europe. China is successfully undermining American influence and power in the South China Sea - especially since TPP no longer exists.

The problems have long been brewing as predicted over tens years ago and referenced in 2003, 2006 and 2012 posts:
https://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=44768&postcount=53
http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=228746&postcount=18
http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=796197&postcount=9

TPP was a powerful move to avert this threat. Trump (and his wacko extremist supporters) has not a clue how much damage he has done to American power.

How much might be quantified this week in Germany.

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Dumb, Dumb and Dumber. How dumb are his supporters? NPR tweeted sentence from the Declaration of Independence. Trump supporters immediately attacked accusing NPR of biased (junk) news targeting at dumb president. One has to read the new to believe how uneducated a Trump supporter can be - Published on 5 July 2017:
Some Trump supporters thought NPR tweeted ‘propaganda.’ It was the Declaration of Independence.

To echo its 29-year on-air tradition, the public radio network’s main Twitter account tweeted out the Declaration of Independence, line by line.

There — in 113 consecutive posts, in 140-character increments — was the text of the treasured founding document of the United States, from its soaring opening to its searing indictments of King George III’s “absolute tyranny” to its very last signature.

Who could have taken issue with such a patriotic exercise, done in honor of the nation’s birthday?

Quite a few people, it turned out.