Live updates: Trump announces sweeping tariffs
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For what? If you cant trade why? Jizus fcking christ
"Following Trump's Rose Garden announcement, a White House official told NOTUS' Jasmine Wright that Russia is "not on this list because sanctions from the Ukraine war have already rendered trade between the two countries as zero.""
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That's a really good explanation, there's no realistic way to make your money back from McDonald's
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Oh shit youre right. Good catch. I'm an american living in Europe but my clients pay me in dollars. Sucky times ahead
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For what? If you cant trade why? Jizus fcking christ
That's exactly what I'm asking you...
If the answer is "because sanctions" then explain why other countries that are sanctioned by the US still got hit with tariffs?
Russia is "not on this list because sanctions from the Ukraine war have already rendered trade between the two countries as zero.""
And yet the US imported over $3B from Russia just last year. Which is to say, the white house lied (again).
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He just saw that they have a massive tariff against the US going back decades and I guess he took it personally.
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Apparently ChatGPT.
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Then too, also now.
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Sure, but he is just crashing Western economy as Russia is preparing to invade rest of Europe.
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Just like how a rising tide raises all boats, a sinking ship takes everyone down with it. The billionaires think being on the life rafts will make them more wealthy compared to those that are sinking.
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This comment implies that you can buy and sell with an uninhabited island...
You're not serious, right? This is a bit?
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What countries with sanctions? In 2024 the transactions between us and Russia went down 2,481.4 Million dollars relative to 2023 when the war already had began. 526M in exports and 3000M in imports, maybe this data tells you what you need to know
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Run headfirst into a brick wall a dozen times and then maybe you will start to understand
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Sounds like I stand corrected.
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I don’t see how that is relevant to the question of, ‘if other sanctioned countries are being tariffed why is Russia not tariffed’ and ‘we still traded with tariffed countries including Russia so why is Russia treated different’.
I mean these questions are largely rhetorical, we know why. The fact that we buy less from Russia is first of all you moving the goal posts from assuming we didn’t trade with them, and second not related to why countries are tarrifed.
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Absolutely, but if one has no idea what they are talking about, they might massive brain worms about the US debt and it being caused by our budget deficit. Then they look at all these other countries and learn about the 'deficit' we have with them and that's the same word, same thing, ezpz. Now you simple get a solid 50% debt to income ratio by dividing the two and cutting it in half, check mate economists.
