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For years I’ve said that the US’s economic centrality makes it sanctions-proof. Today, the US figured out a way to impose crippling, global sanctions on itself. We’ve self-imposed a level of economic harm normal countries fight wars to escape.
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The Spectator Index
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New reciprocal US tariffs 🇨🇳 China: 34% 🇪🇺 European Union: 20% 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 46% 🇹🇼 Taiwan: 32% 🇯🇵 Japan: 24% 🇮🇳 India: 26% 🇰🇷 South Korea: 25% 🇹🇭 Thailand: 36% 🇨🇭 Switzerland: 31% 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 32% 🇲🇾 Malaysia: 24% 🇰🇭 Cambodia: 49% 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 10% 🇿🇦 South Africa: 30% 🇧🇷
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David Watson 🥑
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Hey Max, America doesn’t loathe itself like you do…you have no issue with other countries throwing up trade barriers, but when the U.S. meets them half way you melt down? Time for your Ketamine injection.
"figured out" doing a lot of heavy lifting cause these people are straight up idiots. This thread is making me pull my hair out:
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James Surowiecki
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Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we x.com/JamesSurowieck…
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These countries are falling into the Putin Trump musk trap. Now Trump can call off NATO and half the country will say good for you. No more money for europe. At all. Ever. No matter what!
Simple answer.... STOP ALL TRADE WITH THE U.S. cut them off. FUCK THE U.S. and their low-quality, anti-union, anti-regulation trash goods.
Shit happens. Especially when a country population is on average dumber than the turd I shit every morning. But economy is not your real problem. You’ve self-imposed an authocratic regime, you just do not realized it yet.
You guys are always so sure of something that hasn't happened. You guys are always chicken little screaming the sky is falling.