• @[email protected]
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    391 month ago

    Canada should keep imposing the Tariffs until March.
    Trump didn’t expect Canada to hit back, so he is unprepared for the fallout. If Canada also pauses until March, Trump will use the time to prepare and he’ll reimpose the Tariffs in march

    • @[email protected]
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      311 month ago

      This is the part the media and the economists get wrong. This was never about trade or the economy. Trump understands neither. What he does understand is power. Control. It is how he has always “negotiated”. Find some pressure points you control, press on it (even if it makes no sense or, worse, actually causes suffering) and then wait for someone to offer something and declare victory.

      No grand plan, no scheme, no 3d chess, no deep thought. Just flex and collect.

    • @[email protected]
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      201 month ago

      My thoughts, exactly.

      This move was simple intelligence gathering. Now he knows how the world will respond to this threat. He’s far more prepared to do it for real the next time.

      Canada should hold their ground and call his bluff. Make him suffer for just the idea of threatening us.

      • @WindyRebel
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        131 month ago

        I’m an American in a blue state and I voted for Kamala. I fully support this!

        • @[email protected]
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          101 month ago

          American in a swing state, voted blue down ballot. Make us suffer for electing this moron.