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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait US tarriffed Israel wtf?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

But not Russia. Trump has his priorities.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What’s the point of tariffing a country that you’re not trading with because you’ve sanctioned it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

The counter to that argument are places like Syria where there's a tarrif and sanctions, or again those islands with just penguins that clearly don't do trade. They simply ran an AI slop algorithm then excluded Russia just because.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

We still trade $3.5 B with Russia. https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/trump-tariffs-russia-ukraine-ceasefire

That's much bigger than many of the countries on the list like Madagascar, Laos, Camaroon, Chad, Jordan, Malawi, Vantua, Brunai, Kazakstan, and more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Neither Cuba, or the DPRK. Instead, heavy sanctions are already in place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

We still do billions in trade with Russia. More than most of the small countries that Trump tariffed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

*knows his limits

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Just to remind people, most sane countries do this for soft power. You want influence and dependency on your markets, it's way way better than whatever short term gain you get from taxing you own people for imports.

Same for USAID, it's in all competing countries to fill that void and gain that goodwill since it also makes you safer and less prone to terrorism or influx of migrants at your doorstep.

Edit, I should add China is one of the more aggressive tarrif countries on developed countries, but even that's stuff like 6%, not fucking 30%+, plus they have more strategic reason to do so.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

USAID was a tool to destabilize opposition not stabilize it. It is one of the primary causes of migrants.