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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will deliver a speech on Monday acknowledging that the era of globalization has come to an end, The Times has reported.

Starmer will make the address in response to US President Donald Trump imposing sweeping tariffs on the majority of America’s trading partners, including the UK, earlier this week, according to the article on Sunday.

The outlet said the prime minister will say that tariffs are “wrong,” but would also stress that he understands Trump’s “economic nationalism” and why the voters, who believe they have seen no benefits from free trade and mass immigration, support it.

Starmer will also stress that the fallout from the US charges on imports means that the government in London should “move further and faster” to boost economic growth at home.

An unnamed Downing Street official told The Times that “the world has changed, globalization is over and we are now in a new era.”

“We have got to demonstrate that our approach, a more active Labour government, a more reformist government, can provide the answers for people in every part of this country,” the official said.

The prime minister already stated in an article for The Telegram published yesterday that “the world as we knew it has gone” in the face of Trump’s tariffs. “First it was defense and national security. Now it is the global economy and trade. Old assumptions can no longer be taken for granted,” he said, adding that the British government would soon “turbocharge plans that will improve our domestic competitiveness, so we’re less exposed to these kinds of global shocks.”

Starmer also talked to French President Emmanuel Macron on the phone on Saturday, with the two leaders agreeing that “a trade war was in nobody’s interests, but nothing should be off the table,”according to the UK government’s readout. The British PM is not planning to call Trump regarding the tariffs.

READ MORE: Trump’s beer tariffs could hit 100,000 EU jobs – FT

The same day, the US president told Americans to “hang tough” in anticipation of the international community’s response to his economic policies.

”It won’t be easy, but the end result will be historic,” Trump insisted, adding that the tariffs represent “an economic revolution, and we will win… we will make America great again.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly spoken about the period of globalization, which started after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, coming to an end.

In late 2023, Putin noted that “it is obvious that the globalization model, which was formed to a large extent by Western states – naturally, in their own interests – has outlived its usefulness and is in deep crisis. A new, more just and democratic system of international relations is being formed, which meets the needs of the global majority.”

https://www.rt.com/news/615298-globalization-uk-starmer-trump/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

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US President Donald Trump has warned Americans they could face hardships before his “liberation day”tariffs restore the country’s economic power.

Trump’s sweeping tariffs on the majority of US trading partners came into effect on Thursday, causing the US stock market to suffer its worst crash since the COVID-19 pandemic. China has reacted by imposing a 34% levy on American goods, with other countries also promising retaliation.

In a post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday, the US president told the American public to “hang tough” in anticipation of the international community’s response to his economic policies.

“It won’t be easy, but the end result will be historic,” Trump insisted.

The tariffs represent “an economic revolution, and we will win… we will make America great again,” he added.

“China has been hit much harder than the US, not even close. They, and many other nations, have treated us unsustainably badly. We have been the dumb and helpless ‘whipping post,’ but not any longer,” Trump wrote, explaining his decision.

The US president insisted that his administration is “bringing back jobs and businesses like never before. Already, more than five trillion dollars of investment, and rising fast.”

Tens of thousands of left-wing activists took to the streets across the US on Saturday to decry the tariffs and other policies of the Trump administration. The organizers of the “Hands Off!” protests claimed that more than 1,400 rallies were held outside state capitols, federal buildings, city halls and parks.

On Friday, a top senator in the Republican Party, Ted Cruz, warned that the import taxes could result in a global trade war that “would destroy jobs here at home, and do real damage to the US economy.”

If the tariffs stay in place over a long term and push America into “a bad recession,” the midterm elections in “2026 in all likelihood, politically, would be a bloodbath” for the Republicans, he cautioned.

READ MORE: Top US Republican warns of election ‘bloodbath’

JPMorgan raised its estimate of the possibility of a global recession from 40% to 60% in the wake of Trump’s announcement of tariffs. “The effect of this tax hike is likely to be magnified – through retaliation, a slide in US business sentiment, and supply chain disruptions,” its chief economist Bruce Kasman said.

https://www.rt.com/news/615291-trump-tariffs-china-us/

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.