Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that Mexico will respond to 25% tariffs imposed by the United States with its own retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods. Sheinbaum said she will announce the products Mexico will target on Sunday in a public event in Mexico City’s central plaza, perhaps indicating Mexico still hopes to de-escalate the trade war set off by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Everything is just so unnecessary. Everyone is worse of, no one wins. So stupid.
Putin wins.
How?
If he plans to buy a golden card to flee Russia, he would prefer hist destination to be a stable country. If he plans on using the US as military support, he would prefer it to stay reasonably rich, as long as it doesn’t also help his enemies… And Canada and Mexico are not on the Russian list of enemies (or at least not until recently, Canada probably is now).
The gold cards arent for Putin, they’re for all of the other Russian oligarchs that have destroyed Russia and need a new place to set up shop.
I think he’d much rather eliminate one of the top economies and make more room for the Russian economy to recover. I’d imagine the simplified version of the plan goes something like this: