• perestroika@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    Prediction: what EU and China will be doing shortly - not out of good will, but because they were wronged and they know the problem is Trump, not the United States in general - will be carefully targeted tariffs designed to hurt Trump’s main support bases. It’s been done before.

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      Canada is also specifically targeting red states with retaliatory tariffs. Somehow I doubt that is the sort of “help for the American people” OP is asking for.

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        You’re right but as a red stater this needs to be done to get my state senators heads out of their asses.

        Countries need to target states specifically for economic pressure under a dictator