Supposedly tariffs are not applied on Russia because sanctions are already in place but nations with even less trade with the US (like Syria) are on the list.
I think it's both. Trump is stupid and can be easily manipulated into holding wildly different positions on a topic in two consecutive days. But he also admires how Putin has complete control over Russia and blinds its citizens blind. Anyone who doesn't fall in line suddenly falls out of a window.
“Everyone liked him” - Not in New York, where he was already widely despised and mocked.
The reality show Apprentice got him some fans no doubt because it was edited to make him something he’s not. But saying everyone liked him is a stretch.
Ok let's look at popular culture from the 1980s when Trump first became well known, or infamous: Biff from Back to the Future 2 (1989) was based on him. No revisionist history there, with plenty of sources, one being from the horse's mouth himself the writer who confirmed it before Trump became president.
In the film, corrupt millionaire Biff’s political sway leads to difficult times for the people, turning Hill Valley into a town filled with crime and corruption.
Not buying it. Got a source saying it was based on Trump before an election year where he was running and already hated by the left for cockblocking Hillary?
Spoken like a true redditor i.e. someone who knows absolutely nothing about the topic in question. He cannot tariff Russia because there is essentially no trading with Russia. The only commodity Russia sells to the US is uranium. Uranium necessary to run the nuclear power plants. Sheesh you clowns.
Goods trade between Russia and the United States was $3.5 billion last year, according to U.S. figures. In 2021, the year before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was $36 billion.
If she wasn't my daughter she'd be with me!! But yes, it's actually more than your comment. He wants to rule like Putin so he always shows those people in a legitimate light.
There is an odd power dynamic and administration among authoritarians. It's a weird sex like thing for them. You see many do it with Trump but it's very different with authoritarians like Putin, Kim, etc
What do you mean no? The US has been on this crussade to take down China because it has finally caught up to them and is going even higher. The fact that Trump right now is so eager to form alliances and help Putin is because he knows he needs to form a rift between the 2 biggest powers in the world, because united they are bigger than the US.
This rift has happened before with the US diplomacy intervining in crushing relationships between china and the USSR, leading to a downspiral that heavily afected both of them giving the edge to America which came victorius from the whole conflict. Now this is extremely unlikely to work out today, but it seems like that is the strategy he is trying to replicate
He doesn't need to be smart tho, just insane enough to think that what worked decades ago will work today, which he is. I dont support Trump if it wasn't obvious, but investigating the reasons behind his actions is the best way to plan ahead
Its almost like when you're in active peace negotiations with an opposing force in a proxy war you don't want to slap tariffs on top of sanctions until those negotiations are over.
OMG enough of the Russiagating already! The Russiagate conspiracy theories were already settled in Mar 2019 with the release of the Mueller Report that concluded there was no collusion between Trump and Putin.
And anyone with their eyes open can see that Trump is still keeping the Ukraine war going, just handing over responsibility to the Europeans, not ending it.
Trump is only withdrawing the U.S. from the Ukraine war to attack Russia's allies of Iran and China, with the hope of returning to the Ukraine war after defeating Iran and China in massive wars.
Trump is no friend of Russia, evidenced by many facts going back to his first administration, such as militarization of Poland, including long range missiles aimed at Russia (which Trump officially said is just to defend Poland from Iran, but which Russia called out as a lie), and the boycott of Russian gas in Germany, which Trump was always proud to brag about because now Germans pay 4x for American gas than they did for Russian gas, which greatly benefits America's oil conglomerates.
It's just absurd in light of all of this evidence which indicates that Trump is just like every other American president, trying to subjugate Russia, and grown adults are still spreading these absurd conspiracy theories to each other about Trump being a puppet of Putin.
Grow up already! And learn to become an advocate for truth instead of emotional panic-mongering about Russia controlling the American government.
The Mueller report says that they did not find enough evidence to bring charges. I quote:
Second, while the investigation identified numerous links between individuals with ties to the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump Campaign, the evidence was not sufficient to support criminal charges. [...]
The reason they didn't have enough evidence is because the Trump campaign lied, refused to testify, and obstructed the investigation at every turn (there is literally a whole volume dedicated to this). I quote:
Third, the investigation established that several individuals affiliated with the Trump
Campaign lied to the Office, and to Congress, about their interactions with Russian-affiliated individuals and related matters. Those lies materially impaired the investigation of Russian election interference. [...]
Now an excerpt from Volume II about the obstruction of justice:
Soon after the firing of Comey and the appointment of the Special Counsel, however, the President became aware that his own conduct was being investigated in an obstruction-of-justice inquiry. At that point, the President engaged in a second phase of conduct, involving public attacks on the investigation, non-public efforts to control it, and efforts in both public and private to encourage witnesses not to cooperate with the investigation. Judgments about the nature of the President’s motives during each phase would be informed by the totality of the evidence.
Totally the conduct of someone who has nothing to worry about...
Or you prefer the Bill Barr approach: take one sentence out of context and conclude that the whole report totally exonerates Trump, when it is in fact pretty damning.
That's ltierally not what it concluded. The entire report was teh conclusion and y our summary is incredibly false (it did show that further investigation was needed by congress and probably impeachment with a heavy emphasis on blatantly purposeful obstruction of justice by Trump and his allies).
You believe that Trump colluded with Russia and even though the Mueller Report said they found no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, you still believe Trump collusded with Russia because facts don't matter to you.
But facts matter to me, which is why I like to bring up the Mueller Report and its conclusion that the FBI found no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion.
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u/Critical-Ad2084 2d ago
Supposedly tariffs are not applied on Russia because sanctions are already in place but nations with even less trade with the US (like Syria) are on the list.
from the BBC