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Ryuu96 on 03 February 2025
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I think Trump blinked on both Canada and Mexico because he realised how difficult it would be to take them on at the same time, I kind of question if he will enforce any tariff now, despite claiming that there was nothing Canada or Mexico could do to delay the tariffs. His deal with Mexico to put 10,000 troops on the border...Was something Mexico is also already doing, both Mexico and America already have thousands of troops on the border and in relation to the size of the border won't change much at all, America likewise made a commitment to decrease the flow of guns into Mexico. Another stat is 80% of Fentanyl smuggling across the Southern Border was done by American citizens.

The markets believed Trump's tariffs were bluster too, as such it never reflected in the stock markets. Trump is a media personality first and foremost, his ego and image are the most important things to him and he knows how to con people. He creates fake issues out of nothing and then pretends he fixes the fake issues he created and his fanbase will never question it, Americans will shout how great they are. It was about a trade deficit, then it was about immigrants, then it was about drugs, only to achieve weak concessions and zero addressing of the trade deficit.

He's a guy who sets fire to a forest then puts it out, so he can claim he was a hero who saved the forest.

Wonder what the bullshit with EU he will claim to fix, not like he can attack us for immigrants or fentanyl although he blamed both those irrelevant things on Canada despite Canada having 43 pounds of fentanyl, so he is capable of making up any bullshit. I know he will likely try to push America's shitty chlorinated chicken onto UK and likely attack Europe's food safety standards to try to pressure us into accepting America's shitty lack of standards and corporations. Maybe he'll make a claim that he got Europe to buy American oil, despite Europe already heavily buying American oil due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

But I don't think giving Trump these symbolic victories is smart in the long run, he will keep pushing and pushing, like Putin, appeasement only emboldens the fascist. At some point we have to say fuck off, I can't really blame Trudeau for this one though, it buys Canada some time and he didn't give Trump shit, Lol. Completely outplayed him but he will be back in 30 days from now.

Same old playbook. [2019]

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 3 February 2025 at 15:55

So, Mexico has agreed to do what it is already doing?
www.reuters.com/article/worl...

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— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 3 February 2025 at 15:46

It seems like the trick to negotiating with Trump is to realize he doesn’t have any idea what the current facts are.
"Oh you want 10,000 troops?" says world leader who already deployed 15K. "Great 10k it is"

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 3 February 2025 at 15:48

"Oh you want to send flights of deportees into our country?" says another Latin American world leader who has already been accepting commercial flights of deportees into his country for years. "Sure, you win, I prostrate myself before you: you may send us flights of deportees"

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 3 February 2025 at 15:58

"Oh you demand huge foreign spending in the United States?" says world leader who had previously agreed to buy a half-trillion dollars in weapons from the US while Biden was president. "Sure, our sovereign wealth fund promises to spend a half-trillion dollars on the US!"

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 3 February 2025 at 16:06

"Oh you demand companies create manufacturing jobs in the US, or else?" says CEO who announced construction of new plant years earlier. "If we must, we will open a factory just to please you!"

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 3 February 2025 at 17:38

Adding more recent data to this thread bsky.app/profile/cram...

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— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 3 February 2025 at 19:11