• tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
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    -111 months ago

    How is it “weaponized”? A weapon can injure and kill someone. If the UK needs to pay more for vegetables they import from countries they deemed an invasion discussable for, then this is hardly “weaponized”. If the UK fails to provide its citizens with normal goods then it is an expression of systematic failure. Also the EU used tariffs on food products to handle the trade war instigated by Trump. How is that not an appropriate response to plans of a military invasion?

    • Krzd
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      311 months ago

      Making food too expensive to acquire and causing malnourishment or starvation is literally injuring or killing people‽‽‽

      • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
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        011 months ago

        The british government has more than enough money to cover for its people. Poverty in Britain is deliberately caused by the british government, not by a lack of wealth of the overall nation. Also Britain can still buy enough veggies from the US and China. They just wont be fresh.

        • Krzd
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          311 months ago

          The government isn’t the one paying the tariffs though??