With Trump, the US is increasing customs duties to a huge extent in order to encourage production in its own country. It is also threatening embargoes to countries that do not submit to its economic and political policies.

The important question in this situation is that it started with Coca Cola in countries other than its own, then with Pepsi Cola, McDonalds, KFC, Burger King and Starbucks, Malboro , food and beverage and tobacco sector brands, then with Microsoft, iPhone, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Hollywood, Netflix products in the entertainment sector, it has occupied the vast majority of countries in the world.

Currently , McDonald’s is the world’s second largest fast food restaurant chain after the casual sandwich chain Subway . It has an estimated 36,889 locations in 120 countries, serving approximately 68 million consumers each day.

The Coca-Cola branded beverage products are delivered to consumers in more than 200 countries and territories through a network of consolidated bottling and distribution operations that produce, package, market and distribute finished branded beverages to customers and affiliates, as well as independent bottling partners.

As of 2021, there are 33,833 Starbucks branches in the world.

List of countries with Starbucks branches – Wikipedia

In such a tragic situation, the question that the administrations and consumers of the world countries should ask is as follows. The USA has a huge hand in the pockets of people outside its own country, its hand reaches into people’s pockets, but these countries’ exports to the USA are blocked with high customs walls and unemployment is tried to be created in these countries by shifting production to the USA.

In fact, it is the USA itself that created the giant production power called China today, and now, because it created it, it is trying to gain superiority by calling all production to the USA against the power of its monster, and is trying to regain the superiority it has lost. This has nothing to do with human values, democracy, freedom of expression and the so-called values ​​that are sloganized by the USA, what is in question is a hegemonic relationship.

Boycotts cannot be the solution to this dramatic problem, so the main question of the coming period will be what kind of solutions countries will find together against the USA, which has condemned the world and the continents to itself with the divide-and-rule Aristotelian tactic.

Turkey is at a negligible level in US imports. However, there is an occupation of Turkish territory through bases and NATO. It is important how Turkey’s trump cards will be used against embargoes, customs duty increases and actions.