True, but it has never been so obvious.
Those countries in the southern hemisphere - Asia - have supplied the US with clothing, shoes, aa well as other manufactured goods at a very low price, and American wholesalers and retailers have put huge profits on them. Now those countries are facing crippling tariffs, because they have very few other countries to trade with.
Trump has said he wants to increase American industries, building factories to produce goods at home, but that could never happen, because the American workers want more money than Asian workers - South Korea, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China (leave them for the moment) and other countries, who can only produce goods at a low price because their factory workers are very low paid, and work conditions are appalling.
He could never produce those items - designer goods, which cost hundreds and thousands of dollars. Not only would it take years to build the factories, but the workers would never work for a few dollars a day.
Now they are faced with having to pay tariffs, as well as cutting costs to the bone. It is already slave labour: a full time worker who can only provide a home for the family and food in their bellies, with nothing left, as in the same position as the old slaves were when they worked all day for a bed in a wood shack and bread.
The only way America can become ''richer'' - Trumps own words last week - is by impoverishing other countries.
Russia was not on the list, ostensibly because there are sanctions imposed, but there is some trade going on..
It is even possible that many countries might break sanctions with Russia. We still don't know what Trump and Putin discussed on the phone beside the Black Sea Shipping Agreement.
Today we have seen pension pots all over the globe reduced in value. It isn't just the rich, is it? Anyone who retires this week will not have enough pension to live on unless something is done.