cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/58166384
Hear me out, guys. What if we just start shit with people for no reason. Wouldn't that be great? /s
Canada's retaliation tests the limit of American power under Trump
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8xd5k1krpo
6 Comments
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 4d
i think he's doing it either as retribution for not helping with iran or as leverage to get them to do something with iran.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
He has no reasons. He doesn't think beyond bullying. His handlers and backers however appear to be a death cult.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3d
is it a death cult if they know that they're not the ones who will be dying?
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
I don't share your confidence of their confidence. Weakening the US economically, isolating it from allies, destroying herd immunity and public health, bringing back formerly extirpated/eradicated diseases and pests.
The rich and powerful are not protected from this. The opposite of win-win is not win-lose, its lose lose.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3d
I wish people who are being played would understand they are being played. Trump has very good reasons for these tariffs - market disruption and opportunity for insiders to make big money and he applies and lifts, increases and decreases week to week.
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 3d
They didn't help but they were happy about it. They probably just needed a little more convincing and less threatening, and they'd have happily joined its big brother like an excited todller.
Canada backs United States actions in Iran