US Says Will Retaliate If Poland Introduces Tax on Big Tech

[nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

i think it's possible that they want to devalue the dollar. but this all defeats everything that distinguished life in the usa from other countries

[khannie@lemmy.world]

i don't understand what the end goal of boosting production capabilities is

Wartime manufacturing capacity would be my guess. Probably an element of self sufficiency too.

Shipbuilding capacity is just a fraction of China's now for example. Same goes for electronics.

[misk@sopuli.xyz]

Protecting interests of American businesses, possibly ideological although bribery could be involved too. Trump has been consistent on tariffs for nearly 50 years so it’s safe to assume it’s one of his few core beliefs that’s not as easily affected by his other personality issues.

[nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

why do you need self-sufficiency when you are the defense and economic leader of the global hegemony?

[nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

American Business is modelled on importing and outsourcing. I don't understand how this protects business interests

[usernamehere@lemmy.world]

To maintain that leadership.

[misk@sopuli.xyz]

Taxes make companies earn less money. Trump tries to dissuade Poland from taxing American companies using threat of tariffs. I’m not sure how to put it in easier terms.

[thebat@lemmy.world]

It's OK. He doesn't get it either.

[easily3667@lemmus.org]

Tariffs also lose businesses money, not sure how to make it simpler

[misk@sopuli.xyz]

I need you to make it less simple because you’re glossing over the details. Walk me through how tariffs on polish sausages (or whatever product/industry you think is adequate) will affect American business. This is not a symmetrical relationship between US and Poland and we don’t trade as much as most think.

[Guest]

You’re right and this disregard for the old system is making me nervous. These moves are so economically unsound that I can only draw the conclusion that the old neo-liberal business interests are not a concern anymore. If America tanks its importing and outsourcing model, what will it be replaced with? I’m not confident there’s a plan here (other than isolation and destruction).

[shininghero@pawb.social]

The political equivalent of grade school bullying. It even has the exact same consequences for your reputation, except now it's global instead of being limited to that school building.

[nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I've been trying to figure out many of the conservative viewpoints for a long time. some of them I can steel man a little bit, but this one really confuses me a lot. it's just too stupid

[don_alforno@feddit.org]

We know for a fact he doesn't, because we know that Angela Merkel had to explain to him on multiple occasions that he couldn't negotiate trade deals with her but had to go to the EU as a whole. But since he later had to memorize "person, woman, man, camera, TV", that information was then erased again.

[adderbox76@lemmy.ca]

In Trump's syphilitic brain, "Making America Great Again", means every other country with the exception of Russia and China, bends the knee and does what America wants, no questions asked. To him, THAT is power. He's too stupid to comprehend the concept of soft power and his diplomatic intelligence amounts only to trying to force others to be nothing more than client states.

This is just bullying tactics to try to make them do that. With the added benefit of destabilizing the west for Putin's benefit.

[vxx@lemmy.world]

The question should be "What is putin trying to achieve again?"

[Guest]

I'm convinced he's trying to incite riots for martial law, and force an economic collpase so he and his cronies can buy up the bankrupt companies and assets.