‘Makes No Sense’: WSJ Editorial Board Savages Trump Tariffs on Allies as ‘Dumbest Trade War in History’

[redditsux@lemmy.world]

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[vastard@lemmynsfw.com]

I’m hoping we soon hear several new trade announcements coming from NATO partners that will help us collectively reduce our reliance on authoritative governments of all stripes.

[yerbouti@sh.itjust.works]

I think it's a great opportunity for Canada to develop more partnership with Europe, Mexico and the rest of the world. USA is an ennemi now, a dangerous one, it's time to bring this under-educated country to his knees. They need to pay for all the suffering they brought to the world. Sorry USA, we cant not friend anymore, you made your choices.

[tal@lemmy.today]

Less than two weeks in and a Republican President has editorials from the normally-Republican-friendly Wall Street Journal taking a whack at them.

goes over to see what Cato is up to

Looks like the top three stories are all also attacking Trump.

• Trump’s Deportations Will Hit American Workers, Too

• Trump Administration Purge of FBI Managers Underway

• Here Comes the Legal Campaign Against “Woke” Employers

For a guy aiming to make a big deal out of firing lots of government employees, he isn't getting much love from the small-government crowd.

[chainweasel@lemmy.world]

Didn't they just fire a few staff members critical of Trump?

[flashmobofone@lemmy.world]

The WSJ is pretty conservative. They probably endorsed Trump too, regardless of the fact that he stated, outright, he was going to do another dumbass trade war.

[non_burglar@lemmy.world]

I agree, but we should have diversified our trade in the 90s when we realized Mulroney's us/can free trade agreement wasn't going to last forever, and when it was becoming obvious that China was rising fast as a manufacturing powerhouse.

IMO, we should have forged a tightly integrated trade agreement with the EU and spearheaded the Trans Pacific Partnership way sooner.

We're in the pickle of current events because we were largely complacent at the table of a global market that marched ahead without us in the ways we wanted.

[xzot746@sh.itjust.works]

Well it is from the dumbest president in history (for the 2nd time).

[pahlimur@lemmy.world]

Trump would make a bad king, too unpredictable. Conservative shit spouters like Jones are pivoting to papa Elon. Its gross

[satanclaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Sucks to be linked in when I didn't choose any of this. But I get it. You gotta at this point. Fuck us.

[voroxpete@sh.itjust.works]

The problem is that it's very difficult to move from a trading partner you share a land border with to ones that you have to cross the world's largest oceans to get to. Not just difficult, but largely undesirable. While national security might argue for diverse trading partners, short of applying extraordinary incentives business is going to go where its easy and profitable to go, and that's the US.

Since the nineties Canada has signed and ratified 15 free trade agreements. But none of that matters when we have one of the world's largest and wealthiest markets right next to us. Not unless we're willing to take extraordinary measures to change that dynamic.

[non_burglar@lemmy.world]

Yes, of course. Those things are also all true.

[not_that_guy05@lemmy.world]

People, please don't forget that they (the trump admin) redid the trade agreement with Mexico and Canada in their previous term. We are in this shit because they couldn't even make a deal previously and still think they are masters of deals.

[hanrahan@slrpnk.net]

This as an Australia, I'd be happy to see Australia aak fir EU entry.

Or we could start a Canada, Australia, Japan, NZ zone akin to the EU.

[mapleengineer@lemmy.world]

If you are a non-Trump voter in a red state, especially if you work for the flagship company or industry in that state, I would like to apologize on behalf of all Canadians for what our government is about to do. We don't want to do it but it is the only way to deal with a bully.

[azal@pawb.social]

Absolutely an anti-Trump voter in a red state who works in the healthcare industry where most of my repairs come from Canadian parts.

I know it's against the Canadian way but do not apologize. We voted this way, time to learn.

[thebat@lemmy.world]

I think they quit after Lord Amazon didn't let them endorse Harris.

[sam_bass@lemmy.world]

Does nobody understand the term "cash grab"? He'd play hell raising taxes on us to get what the tarrifs will get him

[seleni@lemmy.world]

Sure, now they complain.

[aesthelete@lemmy.world]

"Makes no sense" is the perfect tagline for the entirety of a second Trump term.