{"id":1353,"date":"2025-04-10T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/world-daily-update-april-10-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T17:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T15:13:23","slug":"world-daily-update-april-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/world-daily-update-april-10-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"World daily update April 10, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So what should one always do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, prepare for the worst-case scenario \u2013 “if you want peace, prepare for war” because when war breaks out and one is unprepared, the consequences are sky-high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s why one should discuss worst-case scenarios because even though “keeping calm” works in 95% of cases, it didn’t for Finland and Ukraine, and the trauma lingers for many generations after such a blow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an elected official, one simply has a darn responsibility towards the citizens to always plan for the worst with the cost in mind, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a bit of trouble with Twitter links and the work computer because they want you to work and block most things \u2013 all claims without a source below, I have posted a link to on my bluesky, address at the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now a full-blown trade war is underway in the world between the USA, China, and maybe the EU, entirely instigated by Trump, one might add –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-China has just retaliated against the 104% tariffs that came into effect on April 9 \u2013 they have no intention at all to back down and are raising it to 84% starting from April 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/omni.se\/kina-ska-infora-ytterligare-tullar-pa-84-procent-pa-amerikanska-varor\/a\/8qkXd2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

-And the EU is responding to the US trade tariffs, effective from April 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.di.se\/live\/eu-svarar-pa-trumps-tullar-infors-nasta-vecka<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

-And then, of course, Trump is planning to further increase tariffs against China because they have been rude<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/omni.se\/trump-annonserar-tullpaus\/a\/eMoeJQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

-And yesterday Trump announced that there will be tariff-free for 90 days, except for 10% for everyone except China. Waiting 1-2 days before opening a can of worms is probably the psychologist’s recommendation \u2013 an absolutely enormous mess right now, and Omeprazole has increased tenfold in price \ud83d\ude36<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, the USA has just announced through the loudmouth Trump that they will “soon” impose targeted tariffs on various sectors, such as “pharmaceuticals.” This probably means there will be 10%-50% (who the hell knows anymore…) import tariffs on various products regardless of the country of origin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presumably on top of everything else \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the USA has also introduced a targeted port fee only for Chinese ships docking at American ports of 1.5 million USD \u2013 on top of everything else, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This summarizes the trade war so far, and both Trump and JD Vance are doing their best to escalate it by going out in the media and on Twitter openly mocking China, Chinese leaders, and Chinese people in general with a thinly veiled racist undertone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And Hegseth has a very high pitch about the Panama Canal and that China will be thrown out headfirst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has just given the Pentagon an extra 1 trillion USD to spend \ud83d\ude36<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought he would reduce defense spending by at least 50%?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The USA has also sent a fleet to the Panama Canal because “it’s ours and not the damn Chinese’s” \u2013 that’s roughly what Hegseth has said on the matter, and Panama doesn’t seem to have much to say about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To give Israel a fighting chance, Iran must be weakened before the global conflict erupts, so the blow against Iran will probably come soon \u2013 as the buildup also suggests. 2 CAG, all stealth bombers, and 300,000 military personnel are in the MENA region now if we include Diego Garcia. And they have moved LV there from South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you look at the image below, you’ll understand why the USA wants to weaken China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And they need to do it soon so that China’s arms industry doesn’t take off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, the EU is quickly approaching China as we speak, and the USA has seen this for a long time, so it’s no surprise to guess that they would like to keep the EU in check as well, preferably with a cold war managed by Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As soon as China manages to respond proportionally to Trump, he will explode in a tirade of insults and threats that will soon turn into stereotypical racial slurs \u2013 I can almost guarantee that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelensky shouldn’t have blown up those captured Chinese right now \u2013 unnecessary as the USA is using it as ammunition against China. He is looking for every excuse to escalate right now, any excuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cooperation with Russia is therefore highly selfish and an attempt for the USA to wrestle back to the top, not necessarily by being the best but by crashing everyone else more than themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have written about this before, but now it’s finally happening \u2013 it has gone much faster and much more aggressively than I thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, you will receive some of this reporting in the future for the simple reason that the whole situation no longer revolves around Ukraine, but we have now moved beyond what Russia failed with \u2013 a global escalation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The USA sees China and the EU as a greater threat than Russia, and that’s why they have allied with Russia – your enemy’s enemy. Just like the bank, the USA is not your friend, as someone usually says, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened immediately was that the stock markets plummeted \u2013 yesterday Europe seems to have gone down more than the USA and Asia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then relief rallies until Trump comes with the next statement \u2013 those who know what he will say and when can probably make a buck \ud83e\uddd0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then there was a first indication that China might be massively dumping its treasury bonds, no one knows right now, and it could also be that no one is buying and China, or others, are selling a bit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And something broke in the bond market \u2013 a reaction like this hasn’t happened since 1982 according to the link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interest rates on new treasury bonds are soaring and falling on existing ones if I understood correctly, and this generally drives interest rates up, so the FED must run its “quantitative easing” to keep rates down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 2008 fresh in memory, this spread across half the world, and countries got “crisis rates.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you remember previous posts, that’s exactly what I was aiming for \u2013 will the USA be able to give other countries crisis rates?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FED can run quantitative easing ad absurdum, but can smaller countries handle it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the next question is what a small Russian attack on the Baltic states and Svalbard would do to risk appetite in a crashing bond market?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s how it looked, at least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Because this is the next question I have asked a few times \u2013 has the USA tried to rig this through gross manipulation to come out on top again, and the only thing I can think of is that they are using Russia against Europe for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ll have to wait and see, but the ball seems to be rolling now, and at least I’m starting to worry about this, add a war between China and the USA on top of the whole mess, and it could get quite lively, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will continue to pursue this because I don’t believe for a second that the USA has not prepared a multi-stage rocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least Ukraine is escaping Trump’s ravages for now, even if RU continues offensive operations \u2013 there are rumors that they will try to reach Oskil in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you also noticed that the refinery attacks, attacks on manufacturing, and other fun things have almost died out in the UA war?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several weeks without anything here \ud83e\uddd0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine definitely does not lack drones, and the target list is very long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus politically, but UA must understand that the US peace plan is dead in the water, and RU is literally pouring robots and drones over Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the world needs now is a major Russian defeat in Ukraine, we’ll see if Ukraine can handle it and if Europe will support it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a first discussion at home yesterday about what to do – the answer was to wait and see, it actually took a while to fall asleep after that. Not very excited about this again, the third time during my working life…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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