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I wish I could find another source to confirm this, but if true, that's basically the nuclear option to kick out all American companies and halt all mineral exports to the US.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Sweeping tariffs combined with cutting off aid, curtailing imports from across the world will make America extremely weak.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (3 children)

trump doesn't understand this. The USA gets away with a lot of shit because it does a lot of other good. If we remove the good, we lose the tolerance for our shit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm worried that his response will be military coercion...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Oh, it absolutely will be. Our drunken defense secretary said that soft power is weakness.

Might makes right. Get ready for WWIII.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Just like Felon...stop making electric cars or launching useful satellites and he's gonna get the reprisal of the public.... Much more than now. I assume.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Almost as if that's the whole point.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think this guy is very likely going to invade an Ally once he's consolidated his coup.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Wonder who it would be.

glances nervously at the 51st state to the North

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Canadians will go scorched earth before accepting occupation though. I can see the US union breaking apart sooner than Americans occupying and holding Ottawa

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I hope so, but I saw a few province leaders in the news salivating at the chance to lick boots and chew leather when the tariffs were announced. Good luck to all of you stuck with those shitheels in charge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah... I really don't know what's going on there but its confined to mostly Alberta and Saskatchewan luckily. Our Conservative premier in Ontario is a (former? maybe?) Trump supporter but at least he's been very against it, even if it is just for the provincial election.

Our next federal election is where the future of our country is really going to be revealed though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Puerto-Rico is not north plus they voted in a referendum the US asked them to do to be part of the....

Oh, OK then, they'll abstain from the sun so they'll be whiter...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Lower supply of key goods should help with inflation, right? Ugh