In recent days, the people in Florida have been in a bad mood. One of the strongest hurricanes in the United States has ever seen, "Ian" swept the place, causing at least 100 deaths and tens of billions of dollars in direct economic losses;

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In recent days, the people of Florida are in a bad mood. One of the strongest hurricanes in the United States has ever seen, "Ian" swept this place, causing at least 100 deaths and tens of billions of dollars in direct economic losses; but what is even more painful is that survivors are full of despair for their future lives.

" Washington Post " recently wrote in a report, "Nothing is left, Hurricane Ian only left emotional trauma." The report said that many local communities were destroyed by hurricanes, and many residents became nothing. Frustration and confusion are aggravating the mental health problems of survivors, and more frequent suicides have occurred in some places. In fact, there is a lot of information that hurricane "Ian" is both a natural disaster and a man-made disaster. Due to the delay of the local government, the transfer order was issued too late, and many people were caught off guard. Some local media revealed that a juvenile offender's disciplinary office suffered heavy losses in the hurricane, but the rescue has not arrived for a long time.

But Hurricane "Ian" is just an embellishment of the current chaos in the United States. After a month of silence, the risk of a general strike by rail workers in the United States increased again; the United States had faced the risk of two general strikes, and both of them mediated from it at the last moment, temporarily calming the crisis. However, the latest reports from the US media show that the United States Brotherhood of Road Maintenance Workers (BMWED) rejected the temporary agreement signed by the freight railroad company with all 12 unions, which would mean that a general strike for workers in the railway system could break out in the United States.

There is still about a month of mediation between the White House, freight rail companies and trade unions, but if there is a wave of general strikes, it will be a fatal blow to the US economy. By then, nearly 30% of the US cargo transportation will stagnate, and the daily direct economic losses will reach US$2 billion, and the losses will "grow geometrically multiples" as the strike time continues.

Against the backdrop of high risk of US economic recession, this news will undoubtedly hit market confidence. According to US consumer news and business channel , JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon (Jamie Dimon ) issued a warning through the media on the same day: the European economy has fallen into recession, and the United States is likely to fall into a serious recession, and there is only about half a year left. Dimon said that in his opinion, out-of-control inflation rate, rising interest rates exceed expectations, unknown impacts of quantitative tightening policies, and conflict between Russia and Ukraine are all potential risks to the US economy; Reuters expects that Federal Reserve will have two more monetary policy in this fiscal year, and there may be 125 basis points of interest rate hikes expected, which makes industry insiders very worried. Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, publicly stated: The Federal Reserve is too fast and too far.

Hurricanes, strikes, and economic recessions are all structural risks within the United States, and some are imminent; but what is the White House doing? Assisting Ukraine to consume Russia, sanction China, and threaten , Middle East .

Ukraine is facing fierce revenge from Russia because it attacked Crimea Bridge . President Biden soon spoke with Zelensky and promised to support it as always and provide advanced air defense missile systems. The U.S. Department of Commerce has also announced escalation measures for sanctions on China's chip industry, although the outside world believes that these sanctions can no longer prevent China from making progress in the chip industry and will only further damage the global chip industry chain.

In the Middle East, the "OPEC+" decision to cut production, the statements of Gulf countries such as the Saudi Arabia are all considered to have slapped Biden in the face. The angry Democratic Party wants to "showdown" against Saudi Arabia through Congress: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman and Democratic Senator Bob Menendez threatened to "use the veto power to veto all arms sales to Saudi Arabia", and asked the White House to "freeze" all cooperation projects with Saudi Arabia immediately.

In Washington's eyes, Ukraine, Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia are more important than the welfare of the American people; in order to prove their hegemony, these political scepters can stand by any country and stare at the trivial matters of any country, but they just don't look at their own people at once.

What else can we say? This is probably life!