@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(8/8)

... in the interests of the state? The answer is primarily that it wanted to … strengthen the state authority itself; it concentrated on the power of the state … Primarily to the state’s external power, in relation to other states."

primary source:
https://fee.org/articles/mercantilism-was-monarchys-planned-economy/

//

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(7/n)

... of economic policy [as a conception of society in which all interests were to be made obedient to the monarch captured in the famous phrase of the #French #king, Louis XIV – ‘I am the State’]."

"#Mercantilism as a System of Power

What was the object of mercantilism in using economic forces...

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(6/n)

... historian #EliHeckscher)

Why #Trump espouses it, could easily be explained by the central element of this policy introduced in the late absolutist reign of the #SunKing, #LouisXIV:

"#Mercantilism as a Conception of Society

Mercantilism revealed a fairly uniform conception of general social phenomena in the field of economics, and this, too, reacted in many ways on the...

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(5/n)

... commodities, was the theory of the danger from which economic policy was chiefly to protect a country lay in having too many goods [imported from other countries].

Mercantilism as a Monetary System

The connection between money and goods in the mercantilist conception of economics was represented in the balance of trade theory … "

("Mercantilism (1935), Swedish economic..

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(4/n)

...commerce, and trade into directions different from how individuals in the market may have wanted to direct their own activities, the more it created incentives for “#Smuggling” – #BlackMarkets – to get around the controls."

The basics:

"#Mercantilism as a System of Protection

The attitude of mercantilism towards the means of supplying the wants of human beings, i.e., towards...

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(3/n)

... of souvereign and autonomous states, while the #US will be impoverished by the economic fallout of the #TrumpTariffs. They constitue a #Mercantilist trade policy, which has historically been proven to be detrimental to its practitioners: it gives rise to #Smuggling and anarchy:

"The more the government’s #Mercantilist policies attempted to restrict and divert manufacturing,...

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(2/n)

... As of #Vance"is historic speech at the #MSC this year, the necesities have changed, grown exponentially :

The remaining #West needs a deeper (#DefenseUnion) and wider union (#CEUM):

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114117715483122573

Eventually, a deeper union of tge West's states will further #Democracy in the #West, as the hegemony of the #US is balanced by a "confederation"...

@BioSchweiz

Well, #Canada is still part of a European, #UK-based #Commonwealth, for one thing.

Then, there is #CETA. And #NATO.

Maybe #EuropeanUnion might not be an appropriate term anymore, maybe #TransatlanticUnion would be more appropriate?

In fact, I favor #CEUM, for the time being.
An #FTA, similar, to how the #EuropeanCommunity got started, back in the day.

@Snowshadow

@EUCommission @EUCouncil

#CEUM
#CETA #TrumpTradeWars
#GeoPol #TrumpCoup #TrumpTariffs
#USpol #CANpoli #EUpol

(9/n)

...latest utterance must be viewed with suspicion:

"The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’s (#FDD) #Turkish expert #SinaCiddi writes that under President Recep Tayyip #Erdogan, “#Ankara is not only distancing itself from the West, but consciously working to undermine its core security interests.” ...

https://m.jpost.com/opinion/article-830560

@EUCommission @EUCouncil

#CETA #TrumpTradeWars
#GeoPol #TrumpCoup #TrumpTariffs
#USpol #CANpoli #EUpol

(8/n)

...might cary the world in either direction.

1)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Economic_and_Trade_Agreement

2) Given #Erdogans previous behavoir, the latest utterance must be viewed with suspicion:

"The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’s (#FDD) Turkish expert #SinaCiddi...

@EUCommission @EUCouncil

#CETA
#GeoPol #TrumpCoup #TrumpTariffs
#USpol #CANpoli #EUpol

(7/7)

point in world history. The momentum might cary the world in either direction.

//

1)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Economic_and_Trade_Agreement

@EUCommission @EUCouncil

#CETA
#GeoPol #TrumpCoup #TrumpTariffs
#USpol #CANpoli #EUpol

(6/n)

... security wise deteriorating global environment.

It might be an idea to ratify CETA and then figure out how #CAN and #MEX might join that #FTA as well.

Concurrently, the project of a #EuropeanArmy must be revived and pursued at full speed.

Interestingly, #Ankara declared that it would like to join such a structure. Good.

Now is the time for huge reforms, this is a tipping...

@EUCommission @EUCouncil

#CETA
#GeoPol #TrumpCoup #TrumpTariffs
#USpol #CANpoli #EUpol

(5/n)

... #Rejoin the #European economic block. #Brexit, a project by international rightwing organizations, was an utter failure. To withstand a sandwiched position by/a an imperialist, expansionist #Kremlin and a likeminded #Washington (#Panama, #Canada, #Greenland,) a renewal of the "ever closer union" is of the essence.

#EU processes take far too long in this rapidly changing,...

@EUCommission @EUCouncil

#CETA
#GeoPol #TrumpCoup #TrumpTariffs
#USpol #CANpoli #EUpol

(4/n)

... more than make up for the #Transatlantic trade with the #US.

#CETA, the #FreeTradeAgreament, a project started in 2014, should now be rapidly brought to completion:

"As of 2023, only 17 of 27 EU countries have ratified (as did the #UnitedKingdom before leaving the #EU), and #Cyprus has voted against ratification." 1)

Also, the #UK. Must...

@EUCommission
@EUCouncil

#CETA
#GeoPol#TrumpCoup #TrumpTariffs
#USpol #CANpoli #EUpol

(3/n)

The rift b/w the #US and its #NorthAmerican, neighbors, #Canada and Mexico, offers huge chances for a new world order.

As #MAGA #DonaldTrump singlehandedly keeps alienating the US stauchest, quite like erstwhile Allies, the remaining #NATO members can reshape the Alliance to their purposes

Furthermore, amalgamating the economies of the other 2 erstwhile #European colonies to the #EU might even...