Volume 6, Issue 27
President Trump is correct in demanding that United States NATO partners pay more of their fair share for the European region’s continental defense. The indication is that a majority of European sovereigns are willing to so contribute. What they are most worried about is any restructuring of trade treaties. Every country in the world, in one particular or another, leverages their international trade strategies against the United States. It is possible for them to negotiate new trade formulas with America. However, this will then further exacerbate their economic connection to other European countries inside their own regional trade block. It is in this multiple calculation of cross-border trading that many European countries are in trepidation of adverse positioning in a new world trade order.
We in America are blessed as the world’s largest economy. We have developed a middle class that is virtually self-sustaining. We have such a large market that we can sell products to ourselves and survive. No other country in the world can make that claim, including our alliance partners in the G-7.
That is why a vast majority of citizens in the Czech Republic know that Donald Trump is President of the United States. And this is also why very few Americans know that Miloš Zeman is the President of the Czech Republic.
This conference is being conducted in Prague because Bohemia, the westernmost historical region of the Czech lands, is known as the “heart of Europe.” In 1537, as the Early Modern Age of Europe was maturing, a famous map published by cartographer Johannes Putsch, entitled “Europa Regina,” depicted Prague as the heart of Europe in its emergence from the Holy Roman Empire.
Further, the Moravians established around-the-clock prayer vigils for the good of humanity from 1727 to 1791. These dedicated Christians sent 300 missionaries to the ends of the earth. Young men were so committed to this cause that some sold themselves into slavery to reach isolated islands to spread the Good News of the Gospel. These acts of servitude were emblematic of the people’s heart for the rest of the world.
The United States this week, on its 242nd birthday, is the world’s leader economically, militarily, and financially. Our currency is the world’s currency. Our language is the world’s language. Some brother nations would agree that America is the heart of the world. Yet, most would find it difficult to deny that America is, in fact, the heartbeat of the world.
In these changing, tumultuous, unraveling times, it is imperative that every nation protect their sovereign heart for their national purposes while respecting the needs of all other nations. The United States gave the world a great gift in 1776. America established the revolutionary concepts that birth is not destiny, all rights and liberty come from God. And the government’s role is to serve the people in their pursuit of happiness.
The one gift that the United States could give the world today is a balanced budget. Why? Because, as managers of the world’s currency, balancing our own budget would further stabilize the exchange rate of our currency with other nations’ trading currencies. Investment and capital would flow to the United States, but we would serve the world by giving nations a more stable exchange rate upon which they could build their own economic plans with confidence. In so doing, the United States would serve the world and its own best interest.
Luke 12:48 states,
…From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
The United States has certainly been magnificently blessed. This is a result of America’s commitment to liberty. America has honored the fact that the dignity of the human spirit requires a cultural resolve to allow citizens to pursue happiness, economically and personally, as their hearts desire.
As we Americans celebrate Independence Day on the Fourth of July, may we be united in our compassion through a national imperforate heart, undivided in purpose to remember our founding principles. The foundation of our great nation is benevolence, protection, and nurturing of our citizens’ hearts and the collective hearts of all nations.
May God bless America in this great cause.
My name is Marc Nuttle and this is what I believe.
What do you believe?