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trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium (www.msn.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hope we respond by putting tariffs on American pickups. Democratic nations need to cut the US out of the global economy entirely until they learn how to act right.

Apologies if there's any weirdness in this post, it's my first one.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

"Omg! Australia is attacking the US!" <- How our (US) media covers this, probably.

What is our dumbfuck president claiming for an excuse to tariff another one of our Five Eyes allies? What is the perceived slight that has set off this unstable man-baby POTUS?

(Did not read the article.. assuming answers can be found there.)

(Edit: have now read the article)

President Trump's announcement was made a day after Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles met with American Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.

'That this advice has been given the day after our Deputy Prime Minister was in Washington to hand over billions of dollars to secure the AUKUS submarine deal is particularly troubling,' Mr Willox said.

This is all they said about the potential motivations. They had a meeting with our Christian Nationalist unqualified news commentator defense secretary, made a deal where Australia is paying the US for submarines. Now you all are getting Art-of -the-Deal'd. I would call it extortion and an act of war.