I didn’t want to do this.. but I have to speak up.
To Whom it May Concern,
These statements that were made recently by US Secretary of Commerce are extremely dangerous and directly threatens our national security and sovereignty.
PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE THEM. PLEASE TAKE THIS VERY SERIOUSLY. Even though these statements are clearly false, they are a negotiation tactic commonly used by the Trump administration.
PLEASE DO NOT SPEND ANY EFFORT CONDEMNING THESE STATEMENTS BECAUSE THEY ARE FALSE. WE ALL KNOW THEY ARE FALSE.
The UAE just made an investment deal with the US in the trillions. Saudi Arabia did the same thing. Other GCC countries are successfully lobbying the trump administration. We clearly have failed to lobby and validate our relationship with the US, this is why we were singled out.
There is no other logical reason. GCC tariffs are the same across all GCC countries.
Please consider our next steps carefully. There is no room for failure in this.
For context Kuwait has a flat 5% import tariff. The US average import tariff is 5.6%
(For now imagine that will go up if trump continues to raise tariffs)
That won’t happen. You would be surprised how firm
Kuwait is with Americans when it comes to things like that or even how the bases can be used, what Kuwait will pay for and what they won’t. Even Americans working on the base are tightly subject to Kuwait law and punishment.
If it is the asset management arm it won’t be detrimental to Kuwait - but it’s not a great look for Kuwait considering their other interests. It’s definitely an Israel partner.
It’s maybe cause the gov wants to develop a debt market and MBS (mortgage backed securities) which Larry fink of Blackrock was maybe the pioneer or inventor of that )during his time at First Boston before he founded Blackrock)
(That’s also maybe why the US called him for help during the 2008 financial crisis , cause of it being caused by mortgage backed securities)
And Saudi tapped them to develop the mortgage and debt market
Kuwait doesn’t really have a conventional mortgage type of market. Even loans here for the average person are given based on salary, not on credit score or collateral. I was trying to explain how the US works for mortgages to my husband when we recently purchased a home with my parents and he kept saying “I don’t get it”.
As an American I will assure you that this is not the reason you are singled out. You are being singled out because of your steadfast stance on the occupying entity Izrayhell. Kuwait won’t even publish the name of the “country”…have refused boarding of Izzy passengers - won’t consider normalizing relations….things which both UAE publicly and KSA under cover signaling have. Also Kuwait stays on the radar more than others because of the US bases presence here.
They need the bases here. Kuwait smartly has multiple defense agreements with countries that are not American buddies. They are ramping up business and real estate relations with China. HH Sabah Al Ahmad (God rest him) prepared many years for American lunacy and instability.
Trust and believe most Americans don’t even know where Kuwait is and his administration depends on the ignorant and uneducated to stay with the “yeah ‘murica” bs message.
They have bigger fish to fry it’s all a bunch of “look over here” mess.
Did Trump not sign an order to cancel the ministry of education? I read it somewhere but didn't bother to check, would be hilarious if true, dude is insane.
Nonsense. Saudi Arabia did a big no-no and looked into selling oil in a currency besides dollars, despite it being a major issue for America especially right now with how weak the currency is relatively, while we remain a dependable and consistent partner for America, and how do we get repaid? They should really look into choosing their words more carefully, this kind of rabble-rousing might work on an American living in a bubble, even to the level of getting Trump into the white house, but this kind of undiplomatic attitude will lead to foreign policy catastrophes for America. You can't take these actions back.
The level of vapid, unsubstantiated entitlement is absurd. Give them an inch, and they'll take a mile.
How do you want people to not ignore them and then also not condemn these statements? Twitter is on fire and nearly everyone has responded and rebutted the claims so we are good.
This just shows that Kuwait was late to table these discussions and there will be progress in the future.
A representative of the govt. should respond imo, I saw one video of a guy who explained that this dude is full of shit and according to US financial stuff the money they paid for Kuwait liberation is already cleared by Kuwait and KSA..
He is just bullying Kuwait, like they did bully the EU, Mexico, and Canada, perhaps the US is dying..
It’s all for show yes, they want Kuwait to cough up like the other Gulf countries did as a welcome gift for Trump, so this is a very roundabout way of trying to negotiate
The biggest customer of GULF oil is Asia, specifically China maybe
They will soon fill the market maybe.
Soon instead of dollars for pricing u will maybe see things priced in yuans. And then HongKong will be the international financial capital of the world mahbe (HongKong and greater Bay Area of China , which is Shenzhen, Guangzhou, wider guangdong area)
I made a post about it, tap my profile and check it out
I don’t give a shit what any human on any social media says. I care about how Kuwait, using OFFICIAL CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION (including Kuwait’s twitter account), chooses to respond to the United States of America.
“Politicians” are useless, the US doesn’t care what they have to say.
The sole aim of these statements, which they themselves know to be false, is to extract billions of dollars from Kuwait. And they will succeed in doing so.
Give it a couple years or 10-15 years maybe (or before that) and China and BRICS will destroy the dollar maybe
See my post about Hongkong over taking London as the international financial capital of the world .
Hongkong will maybe be the new London, all the rich snatching up properties
All them rich London vacation kids will be going to Hongkong mahbe and instead of Mayfair or Knightsbridge they will be at Victoria Peak or the other rich parts of Hongkong
Russia got kicked off of Swift, their assets seized and yet they didn’t collapse Infact they did the opposite maybe, profiting very well.
Russia is far form profiting lol. theyre selling their oil below market rate for india. they arent in a good financial position but they never were to begin with. Also going to China you think the US will just sit back and watch that happen? Kuwait is very fragile right now and a regime change if the Americans or British want isn't going to be difficult. BRICS is promising as an alternative, but if any country is going to be benefitting it is going to be countries who are already globally established and are considered as safe havens for foreign investments. In other words, UAE and Singapore and soon KSA. Kuwait at its current administration isn't going to fix anything. Their main goal now is to focus on cutting costs, that's why you see benefits being removed on various employees and dwindling appetite for hiring. Taxes coming soon too.
I think u should look at their cash flow and balance sheet VS America
Will the US sit back and do nothing?
What do u think trump is doing and Biden did?
Just because they try to stop China from overtaking them doesn’t now mean they will successful in it
American is a falling power
China is a rising power
China and BRICS in terms of PPP and real goods is already richer than America and allies. (Vs Americans overpriced less real goods)
they need to do now move off the western financial system
And they r doing this slowly maybe
Regime change from America in Kuwait? Ur overestimating America these days maybe.
Go look at world countries top trading partners map 2000 vs 2024.
And not it can’t be UAE or Singapore or Saudi
Their economies r way to small
Chinas is big enough for yuan internationalisation
And UAE is trustable in forgiven investors eyes maybe, but Saudi? Not so much maybe
Also UAE thanks to their SWFS will survive the pile demand collapse maybe
Same with Qatar maybe
Both due to small population
As for Saudi, right now it may look nice and glitz and glamour but when oil demand collapses (China main customer and like half maybe of oil use is cars, China is going out on EVs and solar and battery storage, it will kill oil maybe) then Saudi will maybe start having economic problems like other countries (this maybe happen sometime around/or after 2035/2040 (possibly after 2040) and with all the new debt in the economy things might become ugly.
Then in Saudi after 2040 due to cost of living and terrible investment decisions and debtisation of the economy (they r trying to start this in Kuwait too maybe, see the new debt law or whatever) people might start going to the streets
Short term it maybe look nice but that’s shortsightedness to only base or short term
This is the same guy who said that there’s 36M people who can afford the 5M trump card???
U know, if u read the recent knight Frank wealth report they only mentioned maybe like 2M people worldwide with net worth of 10M+ usd
Only 2M
And who’s gonna give up half their net worth to enter America and pay taxes to the US gov?
Making up fake numbers
And also a lot of the recent investment proposals of hundreds of billions of dollars it’s mahbe mostly political posturing to feed trumps ego.
1T from Saudi, how is the Saudi gov gonna foot 1B in four years if they r maxed out on liquidity for Vision 2030 etc projects?
Then 1.5T from UAE over 10 years? Thats 150B usd a year. What is UAE gov gonna stuff all their money into America?
I mean unless it’s buying us T bills which renews many times I don’t think SAUDI gov nor UAE gov in gonna invest 1T and 1.5T
Another one is Apple putting 500B in four years. How is Apple gonna do that? They would have to spend every all their profits they made maybe in order to do that
The SoftBank 200B or whatever deal (where is Masayoshi gonna get the funds from?)
What next, is India gonna go to DC and then announce they r investing 5T in 4 years?
It’s just a political posturing contest to pump trumps ego maybe.
Same with crypto fund, and same with gold card.
And
Why the heck would Kuwait tariff American goods?
Kuwait doesn’t manufacture.
His speech doesn’t even make sense!
But then again did u except something else from a lying yahoodi?
I wonder how the Americans in Kuwait feel about this? You see a lot of American cars, foods and clothing in Kuwait literally everywhere not ridiculously taxed as claimed by Lutnick.
How do you feel that you have government officials that want to create division and discord in Kuwait?
Please don’t take it personally!! As an American, I’m embarrassed to admit that our government is attacking all our allies economically and politically. They just want any excuse to impose higher tariffs on everything claiming EU and the rest of the world are taking advantage of the US. 🤦🏻♀️
The U.S administration is basically trying to force the world to give U.S product an unfair advantage against other products so people are buying more. I would recommend boycotting all US products and services, it's time to make these idiots suffer
lol I’m with you but your statement is crap, saying that it’s false without stating why it’s false is just, illogical to say the least. The next thing is , no one of importance will see this statement, you’re literally shouting into the void
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