Trump's generosity to Argentina has caught the attention of trade partners and U.S. ranchers
As Trump lavishes money and praise on Argentina, more Americans ask: Why?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-argentina-farmers-trade-9.6950426
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-argentina-farmers-trade-9.6950426
Trump's generosity to Argentina has caught the attention of trade partners and U.S. ranchers
40 Comments
PodPerson@lemmy.zip · 58 pts · 333d
My theory is that he’s not smart enough to strategically build partnerships or relationships with countries. He is rewarding individuals in power that he admires or thinks have shown loyalty to him.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 333d
much like putin does, where do you think he gets his advice from.
seathru@lemmy.sdf.org · 55 pts · 334d
Isn't that where nazis ran to the first time the shit hit the fan? Probably just reserving a spot.
Glytch@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 333d
I don't think this is it for one reason: Trump's narcissism won't allow him to consider the possibility of failure.
Ancalagon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d
His kids might.
Glytch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d
When has Trump ever cared about his children?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 333d
only 1, and its incestious.
Glytch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 332d
I wouldn't call child abuse caring.
torch_and_blanket@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 333d
Mm, probably.
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 334d
Because Argentina is the prototype for colonial power they want for the rest of latin America, the US has always supported right wing government that opress the population in favor of US corporations, this is a new wave of open Colonialism.
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 333d
Isn't that where the Nazi's fled last time?
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 333d
Yep that's precisely why they're cosying up to them
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 333d
The other is that they're the torchbearers of modern ultracapitalism, and the viability of that ideology must be upheld no matter the cost.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 333d
couldnt use the boers from South africa, so he went for the next best thing for nazis.
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 333d
You are all thinking way too hard about this. Trump's understanding of geopolitics is not any more complicated than his understanding of American politics. Argentina is Texas. Canada is California. Reward red. Punish blue. That's it.
Jhex@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 333d
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 333d
america in a nutshell since i was kid (1990)
theoriginalcows@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 333d
lemmylump@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 333d
Nazis love Argentina.
whiwake@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 333d
“Why, Trump?”
“Keep sucking and shut up!”
“Yes Daddy”
marcos@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 334d
Hum... Trump has been throwing lavish praise on Brazil too recently.
He may have discovered that the US can't stay rich by isolating themselves. But he has been praising countries that are mostly economic competitors, instead of customers or suppliers. I don't understand how he thinks.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 5 pts · 333d
I would think our competitors are the most likely people to give him something under the table to buy him off. What does he care to do it anyways?
marcos@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d
I don't think on this specific case anybody has given him anything.
Again, I don't really understand anything about what he's thinking. But on the case of Argentina the money seems to be flowing the other way around, and on the case of Brazil the president would reap lots of benefits if Trump antagonized him further.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 333d
brazil has all the tropical fruits, and beef for china. albiet the amazon is getting destroyed for it,.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 333d
Because Trump doesn't want to give it to Americans for health care or food. Fuck them! What did they ever do for him?
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 332d
They don't love him so he's pay other people to love him. Its paid love all the way down with this fella.
He doesn't know real love.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 332d
He's an actual psychopath, so he doesn't have any concept of love, or any other emotion other than hate, jealously, and greed. That's why he's always saying really weird things like he and the Korean guy "fell in love" and exchanged "beautiful love letters." It's why he recently said that he got some world leaders in a room, and they all hugged and worked out their problems. It's why he says really inappropriate things about people's appearances, thinking he is complimenting them.
He doesn't understand these concepts at all, because he's a profoundly broken human being, raised in a family of generational psychopaths. Like all psychopaths, he knows he's different from normal people, so he has to fake normal behavior to fit in. Most learn to do it because they have to to survive in society, but Trump was so spoiled and coddled, he never had to change his behavior, he just kept getting worse and worse.
But at some point he realized he had to try, so he sprinkles words that he knows the Normies like, like Love, and Beautiful, etc. He doesn't really know what they mean, he's never really felt any emotions, but he knows he has to fake it, and since he's never really had to sell it, he's terrible at it. He tosses those words around in really inappropriate contexts, and instead of looking normal, he looks even more psychopathic than usual.
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d
Maybe these poor people just need to organize and then bring something golden and suck him off in the white house, boom universal healthcare.
He can call it Trump care and cut some tape when it gets launched.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 333d
Birds of a feather fuck children together?
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 333d
Doesn't he fuck his sister or something,
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 332d
That's where they will all escape to, like their former brothers did back in the 1940's.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 333d
when the argentinian leader did that video where he rips off labels from a board, i suspected he was on coke 100%
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 332d
It's because Trump has never met a fascist he doesn't like.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 333d
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d
Asking why doesn't do anything
rozodru@pie.andmc.ca · 0 pts · 334d
VinesNFluff@pawb.social · 24 pts · 334d
Something tells me you don't really understand south american geography
It's closer for the Americans to sail on down to Venezuela than for the Argentinians to do anything.
........ Granted, there's like a dozen south american countries the gringos still have a chance to fuck up.
comrade_twisty@feddit.org · 15 pts · 334d
Upvote for your drawing and explanation skills. You’re much better with a sharpie than the other guy!
unpossum@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 333d
Ah, but does Trump understand this?
VinesNFluff@pawb.social · 5 pts · 333d
raises finger and opens mouth
lowers, closes, walks away
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d
Bah there's only two countries between them. Next you're gonna tell me Canada and Guatemala are far apart or Poland and North Korea
Edit, I'm dumb, Venezuela borders Brazil
VinesNFluff@pawb.social · 1 pts · 333d
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d
Yeah, Poland to North Korea was just the most extreme case I could find. With direct distance from Warsaw to Pyongyang is 7556km, there is no driving option, while Caracas to Buenos Aries is 5101km. All three of these cases are most of a hemisphere, including inhospitable terrain.
And for comparison, direct route from Caracas to Washington DC is 3316km. We have a naval station in Virginia, as well as one in Florida (also one in Illinois which would be way more amusing if we hadn't just torpedoed our relationship with Canada). San Juan, Puerto Rico, a place where all people born are full US citizens is 890km from Caracas.
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 333d