Valuetainment
“America Is Falling Behind China” – Trump Pressured To END Forever Wars Causing U.S. Decline
02 Apr 2026
Chapter 1: What advice would you give to President Trump today?
What advice would you give to President Trump today? If you're in his ear, he asks you a question, what do you tell him? You're with him, you say, hey, Richard, so what do you think I should be doing?
Well, I think he should go back to what he promised the American people and what they loved him for. You know, the things he said originally that he doesn't want these forever wars. This one has all the makings of another forever war, you know, 20 years Afghanistan. I mean, pretty crazy. So go back to what they love you for.
Chapter 2: How should Trump address the issue of forever wars?
And I believe that's really who you are. That's what you really want. Let's all work together and get the real President Trump back. And there's things he can do. Of course, there's opposition forces. The deep state is very, very powerful. We've seen that. And is empowered and is using the power bases, including the EU, as quite a serious opponent. There's his sponsors.
that have paid a lot of money, and we know how they feel. You know, they gave a lot of money to Charlie Kirk, and they feel they owned him, and then if you do something they don't like, they feel it seems they have the right to do all sorts of things, you know, certainly threaten him as Candace Owens has documented, you know, happened. Are you saying place where he's at?
Broadly speaking, yeah. Really? Yeah. Really. Okay, so what would you say to the president?
I would say get back to what you promised to do, which is... reinvest in America, reshore the defense base. I mean, he said yesterday in a different speech, we're at war, so we don't have money for all these other things. I'm paraphrasing, but there's this constant refrain from everyone in America that we have to outperform China. China is catching us.
China is at risk of winning in this, or China is at risk of winning at that. Well, how did China do that? China did not go into and spend $8 trillion or $10 trillion in stupid foreign wars that really didn't have a point. They invested in themselves. And so I would say to President Trump, stick with what you said you were going to do. Stay here.
Redirect money into our domestic industrial base, into our domestic infrastructure. He's done a great job with borders. He's done, I think, a lot of what they've accomplished under Secretary Kennedy, has been very admirable, very supportive of that. This is just such a out-of-left-field turn. I don't fully understand it.
I would just encourage him to get back to why are we investing $200 billion there? They're looking for incremental to support this, right? Why are we not spending that $200 billion in domestic infrastructure, growth? There's a whole lot of ways you could spend the money.
See, I thought he was going to come out and say the Gulf states are paying for the $200 billion. I thought he was going to come out and say, hey, this war is going to be paid by the Gulf states because, you know, the $18 trillion. You were going to say something.
Well, of course, I entirely agree with Luke. And I would add that actually there's a lot of things you can do where you don't have to spend money or essentially almost no money, and you can really just change world history, namely deliver what people would love, and that is prosperity and abundance. How?
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Chapter 3: What strategies can Trump use to reinvest in America?
because they want to restrict everything. Scarcity is their model that increases the power of the allocators. But actually, what we need is to implement what America was created for, individual freedom, And the ability to implement, you know, through hard work, to implement things that give us abundance. Now, you need the right financial framework. And America used to have it.
Tens of thousands of banks. Germany used to have almost 30,000 banks just 100 years ago.
Just Germany?
Yes, just Germany. Wow. Who had more, by the way? Because I don't think China ever got to a number like that. That's correct.
Who had more than, what country?
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Chapter 4: Why is China outperforming the U.S. economically?
Well, the U.S.
had at its peak more in the end of the 19th century. The number I saw in the U.S. was 14,000. Can you type in what's the most bankers? That's a recent number. That was very recent. You know, 40 years ago, America had 14,000 banks. I'm talking about 120 years ago. Oh, wow. That's when America had double-digit growth.
$100 small business loan 100 years ago.
There was even an era, and I think we should really go back to this era, of free banking where everyone is allowed to set up a bank.
Yeah, there you go. In 1984, we had 14,000. But can you do me a favor? Ask the question how many banks you had 100 years ago, Rob. Yeah, 1884. 1884. Check like 1884.
Please continue. The model used to be at some stage in America that you could just set up a bank. Even in the UK, you could just go to the post office, you pay five pounds, which was of course much more money than nowadays, and you could register a new bank. That's what we need to do. We need to make it easier to set up banks. We need to switch to a registration procedure.
If you meet certain criteria, you've done it, signed off by an auditor that you've got it, you automatically get your license. At the moment, it's the bureaucrats humming and hawing.
But somebody may push back and say, okay, Richard, you're the godfather of quantitative easing, right? You came up with quantitative easing. Some may say that created a lot of issues if we loosen up too much. Like if you go back and look at, you're saying hardcore deregulation.
A lot of these banks that did the no income, no assets loans, the WAMUs, went from $330 billion to $1.9 billion, all these guys. That was kind of part of the problem, no? Yes.
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