It’s not Trump; he’s senile.
“American leadership” is the term the author should have used. And before you say “not all Americans” - it is irrelevant. The ones that control the army are talking for you.
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Just revoke all American copyright, I'm sure Disney will go goofy on his ass
Cory Doctorows suggestion.
There is way more in preparation than just tariffs. The Anti‑Coercion Instrument allows restrictions not just on goods trade (quotas, import/export bans) but also on services, foreign direct investment, and financial market access.
It's not the rare earth thing that China used - they literally talked about it in their media a few times.
They simply paraded a economic atomic bomb around wallstreet enough that these guys got scared enough and called Donnie (might even be the real reason Musk and him had a fallout) - who in term tried to persuade the Arabs to help him out if the PRC would pull the trigger.
Whaf economic bomb? The bonds and, to a far lesser degree, shares. The PRC owns around 682 billion dollars in US bonds. Combined with currency reserves (around 1.5-2 Trillion USD) and other similar things it is expected to wield a total market power of around 3 trillion USD. Even putting 20% of these on the market with a "we don't care about the losses,motherfucker" directive would ruin the US econmy for a decade in possible domino effects.
The funny things? In terms of bonds China is not even that big - Japan has almost twice that, the UK has 888 Billion. Even Belgium has around 400 billion of US bonds.
In other words: If Europe would finally get their shit together and parade it's own,much larger, economic H-bomb ready AND would make it clear that they would be willing to use it Donnie would still pout,but do much less. But of course...we don't. Germany has a wallstreet manager as a chancellor, Macron is on it's way out, Meloni is in bed with him, etc.
This will literally lead to European lifes being lost at some point.
Well yes, but also it's much easier for China to eat the losses than for Europe, since a lot of the Treasuries are privately owned
Nope, I talked only about treasuries that are publicly or similarly owned.
I'll be damned, you did! 👍
Trump is the elected leader of America and he is backed by the elected legislative body of America. This isn't a "Trump" problem, it's an America program.
That matters because it doesn't go away when Trump leaves office.
There isn't a rhetorical or legal solution to save Greenland, there is only a military solution. Put enough troops there that is costs too much to take. See how simple that is?
"Brass knuckle"? No, "screaming toddler".
It's time for Trump to FAFO.
They wouldn't even need to add tariffs. Just say they'll add tariffs, like he does.
“brass knuckle” methods? Fuck. This man is a well documented notorious coward. “Arrogant shithead demented rapist” methods, I’ll grant you.
Sometimes a little bit of bar room brawling can be required. Of course, it's different within politics. However, the knockout punches are there indeed.
He won’t back down.
Still, we should show him, that his economy is tied to ours. Best would be if we were independent from oil, gas, cloud infra, services… but hey. Better now, than later.
Every military is a paper tiger until it has seen combat. Goes for the USA aswell. The ones allowed to talk right now are Russia and Ukraine.
Russia is the definition of paper tiger