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His threat was directed at countries in the so-called BRIC alliance, which consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.

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[–] PunnyName 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

With what choices?

Also, there's never an argument for him.

[–] DarkCloud 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The choice to remove his tariff. To clarify I'm not saying there's an argument it's a good thing, I'm saying I can see his (self-interested) logic.

Of course I also understand people aren't able to look at his ideas yet, as post election hatred is still high, and should continue as such as he is a hyper capitalist willing to sell America to internal fascists (and probably some parts of it to external fascists too).

[–] pivot_root 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A lot of people don't seem to grasp this idea.

If Tramp goes through with his original plan on applying a minimum of 20% tarrifs to all imports, there are exactly zero choices.

Consumers eat the 20% price for imports, and local manufacturers raise their prices to match because they no longer have any competition at their old price point. To make it worse, wherever domestic production isn't able to meet demand, products will still have to be imported.