Trump threatens BRICS with tariffs if they replace US dollar

[mrkawfee@lemmy.world]

This guy is all stick and no carrot.

[qyron@sopuli.xyz]

Can I offer you an encouragement biscuit?

[asafum@feddit.nl]

Idk, honestly one of the larger selling points to global trade was that you'd be much less likely to want to go to war with someone you relied on. If there is literally nothing connecting you then war is a much "easier" option to choose.

[docus@lemmy.world]

Thank you for your kind offer, but before I accept: what am I looking at here?

[ramblingpanda@lemmynsfw.com]

Thank you, but I had therapeutical pizza yesterday.

[vorlaut_boy@feddit.org]

He looks like he is Self-anointing like some Capuchin Monkey.

[dan1101@lemm.ee]

He learned a new word and is using it all the time. Hopefully leaders will grow tired of it and just call his bluffs.

[breadstickninja@lemmy.world]

Too bad he still doesn't understand the concept behind the word. Hopefully it will bite him in the ass when the price of literally everything goes up.

[qyron@sopuli.xyz]

It's a local pastry. A traditional recipe. I bake it myself.

There is no fixed recipe. It uses plain flour, leavening agent, olive oil, grape alcohol (aguardente), eggs and sugar. The dough itself is to be very low on sweetness.

Everything is mixed together until it forms a heavy batter, that is then spooned onto a oven tray in dollops, sprinkled with sugar, and baked in medium/high pre heated oven.

Goes well with strong, black coffee.

[theacharnian@lemmy.ca]

Hahahahahaha

That's the biggest threat the US is actually facing.

That's how all those big juicy trade deficits are actually funded Donnie, by the USD being the reserve currency and by the rest of the world buying US bonds. Literally what Nixon replaced Bretton Woods with.

So get fucked all the way to Maralago, bitch.

Hahahahahahaha

[bne@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

It's like his politics start and end through/with violence.

I wish I could remember - there was an Italian word for it. Oh well.

[liyunxiao@sh.itjust.works]

In a world United against the US, there's no war the US can wage effectively. There's only so much power you can project from aircraft carriers, and nukes are essentially off the table.

BRICS was also designed for exactly this scenario; a rogue US finally showing its whole ass to the world. They'll survive regardless of what the US tries, whether it's sanctions, tariffs or invasions.

[rhusta@midwest.social]

Are you perhaps Colombian or Ecuadorian? I grew up with aguardiente but I've never seen that type of bread. Although we make our aguardiente from sugar cane. Our grape licor we call pisco, but we consider it to be more of a Peruvian/Chilean thing.

[zerohora@lemmy.ml]

[facedeer@fedia.io]

You appear to be saying that only the US starts wars? That's not the case.

[marcos@lemmy.world]

BRICS was also designed for exactly this scenario; a rogue US finally showing its whole ass to the world.

It was created to diversify the commercial relations of those countries, decentralizing them from US/Europe.

You can call that "protection against a rogue US", but it was much more of a "we will never get rich if those two control everything we do" thing.

[marcos@lemmy.world]

Now, that's not true.

You can pick any poor country at random, and you'll find that one policy there with almost no exceptions.

[liyunxiao@sh.itjust.works]

That's not a common interpretation of those words in that order, which would be fantastic if there were a competition for most unique and obtuse construing of sentences; however whether or not such a contest exists, this isn't a part of it.

[liyunxiao@sh.itjust.works]

It's less "we will never get rich", which is objectively incorrect given China is part of BRICS and was rich long before brics was created, and more, "why the fuck is less than 8% of the world entitled to the wealth of over 60%?"

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

You're right, I wasn't thinking about colossal shitholes.