• RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    He did gain something but lost a lot or rather usa lost a lot. He can just claim he forced other countries to enforce border on their dime by force to appeal to his cult. And ofc his cult will ignore or don’t understand the value of trust lost and how this will cause prices to go up even if he backs out now. At least the neighbours are now aware of what’s to come and can plan accordingly to reduce dependency on the bully.

  • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
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    16 hours ago

    And here I saw this as Trump wanting to prove to the country and rest of the world, he’s loco in the cabeza, and that he wanted to make Canada dance by punching them squarely in the nose publicly, while his true target was China (trade) and Mexico (drugs and immigration), so he threw Canada in, to see what he could shake out of their pockets with zero effort. I get wanting to spin this as mockery of the bad man, and Trump is indeed a very terrible human being, but this isn’t a win for anyone, with a 30 day timer counting down, to placate a man who hurts entire countries just because he can.

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    16 hours ago

    Typical USA business model. Focus on the next quarter at any cost and screw over the long term even if it bankrupts the company.

  • NielsBohron@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    As someone mentioned earlier, this reeks of a “pump and dump” scheme.

    1. Trigger an easily avoidable economic crisis
    2. Watch the stock market tank
    3. Wait for you and your oligarch friends buy assets for a song
    4. Cancel the “crisis”
    5. Profit

    The fact that Trump pretended to be unaware of the effects of the threatened tariffs on the stock market is pretty indicative of him knowing exactly what the effects would be…

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        12 hours ago

        Yeah this actually makes the most sense. Like damn I didn’t think about it before. I even saw the stocks plumet but I never thought he’d do it on purpose… but then again. He is a felon