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De: F. Pacheco Torgal
Enviado: 30 de Junho de 2019 5:51
Assunto: "The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century"
In the book title above published 10 years ago, George Friedman explained that USA needs to keep a permanent destabilization action all over the globe especially in Eurasia and in the Middle East to avoid coalitions that may threaten USA world supremacy. Using his own words:
"USA has no interest in having peace...conflicts are needed to maintain power balance...in the XXI century...there will be new destabilization actions both in the Balkan Peninsula as well as in the Middle East"
And that helps to understand why Mr. Trump is so eager to send some missiles and bombs over Iran (Persia). Also, let´s not forget that for USA a war is always an excellent opportunity to test new weapons and to show its live performance to potential buyers.
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De: F. Pacheco Torgal
Enviado: 12 de Julho de 2018 6:55
Assunto: For USA peace is just very bad business.
The link above shows that China could overtake US on research impact by the mid-2020s. But that´s not surprising. The 2018 European Innovation Scoreboard in the link https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/30281 showed that China is catching up very fast.
Also Clarivate Analytics Top 100 Global innovators showed that Asia corporates are also growing very fast. https://clarivate.com/derwent/campaigns/derwent-top-100-global-innovators-2018-19-report/
But what i think is worrying for now is this piece https://www.businessinsider.com/volvos-british-design-chief-says-china-is-better-at-building-cars-than-europe--?r=nordic that has the potential to give the USA car industry a very hard time because right now they can´t even tackle German competition.
But if USA wants to challenge Asia innovation rise it should be moving billions from the military budget to other more promising areas that could help Humanity like for instance renewable energy. Yes, we all know that discovering a cost-effective renewable energy source is difficult and it's much easier to keep on producing weapons something that Americans do so well. In fact a country that has so much military equipment to sell for sure has a lot of interest to force someone to buy it or instead to fuel some wars around the globe to create demand. So no doubt peace is very bad business for USA.
Since at this very moment just three European countries already spent as much on military material as Russia (the so-called big menace) so why should Europe increase defense spending? Because Mr. Trump is threatening to leave Nato ? Really ? Its just sad that not even one of the European leaders that were in the Nato Summit had the courage to tell him what he needs to hear.
