[Skybird]

Having a tactic for hiding that one has no plan, does not make the tactic a valid replacement for the non-existing plan.

Its hard to form a plan, a long term vision or whatever, if your awareness span reaches just from one Tweet to the next.


Political success in Trump'S definition: to land the next big headline on twitter. The unhidden joys of triumphant little boys.



Regarding the meeting with Juncker, its probably not so much pressure from the EU that made him changing his mind for the next hours (before he maybe chnages it again), that was not necessary maybe: but the fact that parts of his own voter basis and party and the complete car industry formed up against his tax policy. There are midterm elecitons coming up, and Republican senators started to mind their own office interests. This played into the hands of the Europeans. The US exported tne times as many soy beans to China than Europe, and this now is getting the tax-hammer - as we know, Trump had to promise financial support for his farmers therefore.



The problem is: China cna say it buys this and that from the US, LNG or soy beans, and it does. The EU canot say that, Jnckers ha dno m,andate for promising that, and the commission can make no state and no private companyx buying overpriced American LNG or soy beans, even if it told Washington Europe would do that. Europe is not China. The trariffs on steel and aluminium are sitll in place, the assessment of car imports into the Us continues, the car tariffs are not off the table.


It was just a declaration of intention yesterday. Not even a deal. One bought time in which the conflict is not to be escalated. If Trump plays ball. And more it is not.



I am very hesitent to read anything more into that "deal". I think in a few months, we will see it cooking up once again.