Donald Trump’s merit is to shed light on raw light, without frills, the “law of the strongest” that the United States has been imposing on the world for decades. The question of customs barriers is the last avatar of these diktats which made and made the world tremble, according to the interests of Uncle Sam.
However, the history of the country shows that before positioning itself as a free trade defender, the United States had initially locked its borders to develop its own companies, consolidate their emerging industries turned towards the domestic market. Before imposing their own economic agenda on the rest of the world, forcing the other countries to open their borders all large to sell their products without hindrance to it, accusing economic nationalism of all evils. The savings of many countries, not strong enough to resist them, were thus laminated.
Ultraliberalism, propagated by freshly grown economists from the University of Chicago, influenced by Milton Friedman, ravages in the least advanced so -called countries, which, they did not have the chance or the possibility, before opening their borders, protecting their still fragile economic tissues.
In the name of this ideology, relayed by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and their “structural adjustment programs”, the African countries, among others, were thus summoned to suppress their customs barriers, to open up their imports with imports, to privatize their public companies – bought by large Western groups -, to remove any subsidy and state -of -the -art support, to cut the and education.
With the key, the loss of thousands of jobs, the bankruptcy of countless small and medium -sized local businesses struck hard by the unfair competition of products from everywhere, a total loss of economic sovereignty which continues until today against a spectacular increase in poverty and inequalities.
On the side of the USA, during this time, muted by the lure of gain and in a context of delusional financialization of the economy, American companies have relocated their country in turn. Today, the economy of the United States is an empty shell, the country now imports, from Asia and elsewhere, almost all of what is consumed there.
To try to stop this dynamic and have the goods sold to Americans produce in American factories, Donald Trump has multiplied electoral promises, promising to “repatriate millions of jobs” to return to the United States their lost status of “industrial superpower”. Elected in large part by the victims of the deindustrialisation of the country, he is now going back all. And, again, everyone is asked to line up. On the other hand, the so-called southern countries which would try to pass their own interests before those of foreign countries and to produce themselves what they consume would be immediately put in the index. The law of the strongest, always.
