We are currently facing an "open" media war in which America excels - in addition to the economic war that America is losing day after day.
America yesterday tried to surprise the world with its media by increasing its military budget for 2019 to 716 billion US dollars. All news media including Arabic, Western and Russian circulated the fake news without the slightest analysis or interpretation of the credibility of the news - and from where can America in the shadow of economic war, by-which it is losing, to achieve this amount.
We have already said - internally with the protectionist tariffs imposed by the US administration as a futile decision to continue imposing economic hegemony - America has become like someone shot a fire on his foot - because this will simply raise the price of the local product to the scarcity of raw materials or manpower.
And thus US people to refrain from buying this expensive product - and thus to achieve losses in the industry does not cover the cost of production - and therefore the need to lay off employment - and access to the state of economic recession and increase the rate of unemployment in America. What we have heard in the Chinese news media is that US soybean carriers have been in the high sea for more than a month.
And today China abstained from buying US oil, which was imported until June at the rate of 300,000 barrels per day, so as not to be used as a political tool to punish countries from the point of view of the Chinese administration in response to those failed US actions. The reluctance to purchase US goods on a larger scale than China, the world's largest and most powerful market, will be followed by other countries.
We have heard of Turkish, Russian, European and Canadian actions as well as the loss of the strong Iranian market. Which will make the food and oil lobby in America rise in the shortest possible time, and states that were calculated on the Republican Party will abstain from voting, especially the states that have been affected by agriculture in soybeans and the production of liquor. Where are the surpluses and savings that can be achieved by this protectionist plan, which can be financed through the increase of military spending by this exaggerated amount !!! Second, there is considerable opposition within the Trump administration, which is under pressure from Zionism, against the step of these increases in the military budget, because with the increase in military spending, and since the days of George Bush the Junior and Obama, who launched wars and dropped countries, did this superiority in military spending achieve its objectives?!
On the contrary - America and its allies were defeated in a seven-year war over Syria - in which they and their allies spent about US$ 1 trillion - and the defeat of terrorism in Syria. "Turkey" is now more inclined to its original allies, "Russia - Iran - China", and to an agreement to deal either with local currencies or the Yuan. There is a summit in Tehran in September between the trio "Turkish, Iranian and Russian" on Syria and other issues.
Israel is in worse shape after the defeat of the terrorism it supported, and after Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's statement yesterday at the 12th anniversary of the victory of the July war that Hezbollah is much stronger than Israel and ready to crush it again. There is a loss in Yemen - after spending nearly 1 trillion dollars in the aggression on Yemen, and the Yemeni people categorically rejected the so-called "legitimacy" and representative thereof the servant of Al-Saud of the so-called "Mansour Hadi", and his government which managed Saudi Arabia and UAE.
The presence of the Russian, Chinese and Iranian fleets in the eastern Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Strait of Bab al-Mandab, the Strait of Hormuz and the recent annexation of the Caspian Sea to its own countries - apart from striking America's schemes with all its funds and weapons in the region, unless the Arab regimes connection unfortunately to the interests of America and Israel.
The most serious is the loss of Qatar and its existence with the same trinity "Sino-Russian-Iranian" and China's presence in the UAE on Chinese terms, including the last loan worth 20 billion dollars to save it from bankruptcy.
The third point - these increases in military spending will come at the expense of social programs, unemployment benefits, health care and housing construction, which the American citizen continues to suffer for a population of about 500 million. In addition to a dilapidated infrastructure in America, with the Trump certification itself, it needs $ 1 trillion to rehabilitate it.
Will the US citizen tolerate these new tax increases with a decline in public services? Is the American citizen in 2018 the same as the citizen of 2003 before the revolutions of the cyber-media?
With all the failed current deals to privatize Saudi Aramco, which have not reached more than $ 2 trillion, even less than their fair value, on which America depends on paying off all aspects of its economic deficit, as well as the image of the Saudi cow, which is milked by Trump, which circulated via all the Western media.
Also, a recent report issued by the Earth Center at Columbia University in America in 2013, evidencing that the Pentagon unfortunately exploited the American taxpayer, to obtain an estimated 8 trillion dollars over ten years in 1998-2008, for false wars promoted by the American media deception. However it failed in its alleged war on terrorism, and oil lobbies did not benefit from it as planned.
And so with all these amounts spent it led to an actual bankruptcy of America in 2007-2008, by which our media does not talk about at all, where an American citizen was offering a house for sale in return for a bottle of water or sandwich, unless the royalty imposed by Bush II on all of Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar And Kuwait.
The matter that led to a severe financial crisis on time in GCC, which was reported by the Gulf media as a lie that it is a crisis of real estate and liquidity, coinciding with the low price of oil at such time in the Gulf.
After all foresaid, can America manage this $ 716 billion? Or is it just for media propaganda to annoy its main enemies, Russia and China, for their military supremacy with local capabilities? You may decide audience.
Ahmed Moustafa
Political Economist, Director of Asia Center for Studies
