In his first few days in office as President, 'The Donald' has fired off so many Executive Orders and aggressive tweets that much of the world is dizzy. One policy that's clearly emerging from the smoke of immigrant ban attempts, XL Keystone pipeline approvals and bellicose threats against Iran, is the Trump team economic agenda, called by Assistant to the President and Chief Strategist, Steve Bannon, "national economics."
The key targets so far are China and Germany, two nations with the largest trade surplus with the United States. A closer look, however, suggests Washington is preparing to launch what James Rickards, sometimes advisor on capital markets to the US intelligence community, refers to as "currency wars." Aside from the obvious China target,
the second and perhaps more important target is to destroy the Euro and its European Monetary System. Here Germany is at the heart, one reason, perhaps, why Chancellor Merkel seems to have severe gas pains whenever the name Trump is uttered.
On January 31, new US Trade Czar Peter Navarro accused Germany of using a "grossly undervalued euro to exploit" the US and Germany's EU partners. Navarro went on to call Germany, the core of the Eurozone economies, a
de facto "currency manipulator." Get used to the term because we'll see it often in coming weeks. The manipulation Navarro speaks of, however, is the very creation in 1999-2002 of the Euro single currency. The Euro, with Germany as its largest member, acts like an "implicit Deutsche Mark" Navarro charged, whose low valuation against the US dollar gives Germany a huge advantage against its principal trading
partners.
Comment: According to another report, Tussian Tupolev-22M3 long range bombers and SU-34 frontline bombers have utilized the air base in Hamedan, Iran, since August, 2016, to strike Daesh and Jabhat Fath al-Sham terrorists in Aleppo province, Dayr al-Zawr and Idlib.
The Russian upper house of parliament's defense committee chair, Viktor Ozerov, told RIA Novosti news agency in November that Russia may be forced to use Iran's airbase again in case the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier which it used for anti-terror strikes in Syria is called away from the Syrian borders.