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Trump's America and a Brexit UK do not really feel like friends anymore. It's more like the former Eu president Tusk once said: "Who needs enimies when you have friends like this?"
Of course any country can do what it wants, it's just that their allies can also choose to spend their time, energy and (trade)money elsewhere when a relation is seriously jeopardized.
Millions and millions of people are hurt physically, emotionally, economically due to the voting and decisionmaking of two very influencial countries like the US and the UK. Personally, putting all emotions aside, it costs me dearly in stability and growth of my savings due to the turbulance of the stockmarkets as a result of the "moves" of Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson.
No citizen of any country can vote in a referendum or election of another country. As long we don't have one big federation of states that's probably a good thing. If it would have been possible, it definitely would have felt at least a little bit better knowing that I had a say with a vote.
So some friends asked me how I'm really going to execute in an earlier article mentioned "voting with my wallet". I know the original meaning is somewhat different. Voting with your wallet usually means you vote on a party or candidate which delivers you most money (or cost less). With my definition, it's something else. Since I can't vote in other countries, I can only influence said country by spending more or less depending on my enthousiasm for that country. In thse cases of the US and UK, my enthousiasm has gone below freezing point :).
But given my definition, actually it's a funny question because everybody is doing it all the time. On personal level almost everybody has their preferences. Some men buy only Italian shoes, some women only French fashion. Usually it's driven by any specific emotion, often difficult to trace back where it came from.
On country level it's more clear: if the Russians invade the Krim, we stop buying Russian gas or prohibit selling goods to Russia. If Iran does not stop their nuclear industry, we just isolate them with any kind of trade, in and out. In fact these decisions are often on emotional level too. We hide ourselves behind international laws and rationalize the decisions but basically it's all about self-protection, whether it's about ideals, economy or border battles.
I can understand that American Democrats call out to unite now simply because: they are American! They can not go anywhere (beside a few who are really upset and plan to go to Canada or New Zealand) so they just have to live with it until the next election. It's the consequence of (wrong) voting in a booth.
But at the other side of the fence we can be upset too.
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After 10 days of Trump's presidential turmoil, let's look back onto his first 10 "deeds":
- The "carnage" speech. In Trump's mind is bringing anger and fear the key to success. Create an enemy (China, Mexico, Wall Street), get a large weak audience (unhappy, uneducated, unemployed, forgotten people), call yourself "the greatest", close the borders, control communication and there you go.
- Brag and lie about the numbers on inauguration day. Not only it was embarrassing how Sean Spicer and Kellyann Conway came up with their stories about "the way Trump sees it" and "alternative facts", but Trump's speech in front of the CIA Memorial Wall was just humiliating, just egocentrically taking about himself and his "views" instead of paying respect to the people and its organization who defend the US with their lives.
- Slam the protestmarches and press critics the day after. He ".. was under the impression that we just had an election ...". Trump's simple mind believes that he can do whatever he wants for 4 years without any opposition or critics. Everything else except his own views is "fake news", "bad", "sad", "dishonest". Amazing and immature.
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