{"id":16747,"date":"2025-03-12T18:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16747"},"modified":"2025-03-12T18:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:04:42","slug":"if-you-compromise-with-totalitarian-systems-you-will-pay-a-high-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16747","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If You Compromise With Totalitarian Systems, You Will Pay a High Price\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;instead of trying to decouple unilaterally from China, let\u2019s do it in an organized manner together. Let\u2019s sit together at the negotiation table, because if 300 million Americans impose tariffs, that\u2019s one thing. But if 300 million Americans plus 500 million Europeans and some of the largest economies in the world and other democracies from Japan to Australia are warm-heartedly invited to join, then I think we will have a much better outcome that is very much to the benefit of every non-authoritarian economy, but most importantly, for the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would strongly suggest that \u201cAmerica First\u201d will only work if it\u2019s not America alone. And there are some issues where America will need partners in order to have the ultimate leverage, and I think that leverage would be increased by joining forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/01\/18\/mathias-dopfner-trump-europe-trade-00199102\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/01\/18\/mathias-dopfner-trump-europe-trade-00199102<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;instead of trying to decouple unilaterally from China, let\u2019s do it in an organized manner together. Let\u2019s sit together at the negotiation table, because if 300 million Americans impose tariffs, that\u2019s one thing. But if 300 million Americans plus 500 million Europeans and some of the largest economies in the world and other democracies from Japan to Australia are warm-heartedly invited to join, then I think we will have a much better outcome that is very much to the benefit of every non-authoritarian economy, but most importantly, for the U.S.<br \/>\nI would strongly suggest that \u201cAmerica First\u201d will only work if it\u2019s not America alone. And there are some issues where America will need partners in order to have the ultimate leverage, and I think that leverage would be increased by joining forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/01\/18\/mathias-dopfner-trump-europe-trade-00199102<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,217,165,728,272,355,314,1648,226,227,619],"class_list":["post-16747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-totalitarianism","tag-trade","tag-trade-war","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16748,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747\/revisions\/16748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}