Edit :Sorry Guys while i've been typing a response, the conversation on the thread has moved to more cultural things and personal memories stirred by the bourdain suicide so my comment below is going to appear as an abrupt return to the issues of Trump.
I can't keep up with these G meetings, i'd forgotten about G20. I was racking my brain to think of countries that should be involved and didn't think of India.
Surely, if Mrs Merkel agrees with Russia, on the one hand, being excluded due to the crimean annexation but on the other hand is happy to build this huge pipeline then she is being a bit of a hypocrite. [ BTW I think the pipeline should go ahead ] If she was consistent she would be alongside Trump pushing for Russia to return to the fold.
I don't think Trump has the final say on the sanctions imposed on german businesses dealing with russia like this new pipeline, it is more the US deep state, elites and establishment that wants to isolate and weaken russia at any cost. You can broadly tell what the deep state and globalists etc approve of by reading the mainstream press, Trump is getting stick for the steel tariffs etc.. but very little stick for the looming sanctions with this pipeline. There are places in america that use to make steel and now theyre all unemployed because the owners moved the production to china where they could pay the workers much less, america prides itself on morality etc but was making all those american people jobless and poor a christian and moral thing to do?
I don't really know enough about the mh17 case, I find it hard to think rebels would have mistaken an airline jet for a fighter plane, and they would have to be insane to deliberately shoot down a passenger jet flying over. Presumably Russia has provided the rebels with some anti air defense missile launchers to shoot down ukranian jets bombing them and that is the basis of the case against Russia. It was an horrific event, and in my opinion should have been the catalyst there and then to end the civil war.
The thing with the iphones is they are already massively overpriced at $1,000, the margins must be astronomical. Cheap goods are generally not sustainable for the environment, in the case of clothes they use thinner and thinner material and so don't last as long and have to be replaced more. Also you don't really have much consumer choice in the shops here, an expensive pair of jeans is probably also manufactured in sweatshop conditions.
I think people would care about the sweatshops but the nature of life, say in the uk, is its so full of stress and money worries that people feel its somebody else's problem to solve. And ultimately I feel it is the responsibility of the bankers, business leaders and politicians to get rid of sweatshops as it's a form of modern slavery that exists for billionaires to gain more money. It has been the globalists who have enabled this, trade barriers could be brought in tomorrow for goods manufactured in sweatshops, this would be the moral thing to do but it will be the greedy globalists, bankers and business owners who vehemently oppose this.
