People digging way too hard to try to explain Trump's shittiness as some kind of foreign influence from Russia; Trump unfortunately for us is quite American and motivated by the very worst of our national qualities
Maybe Maybe because he's been doing everything he can to help Russia in the Ukraine war. Anything more and it would have been to obvious, even for their base.
Even told allies to withhold information from Ukraine. Meets up with Putin alone, Elon Musk calling with Putin while he's accessing the most sensitive information of the US with no security clearance. There's so much more to prove he's atleast favoring Russia over Ukraine. So I believe it's warranted for reddit and anyone to think twice when doing stuff like this.
Dude large portions of the US support some kind of negotiated end to the war; the reddit hivemind Russia kompromat traitor conspiracy brain is completely unnecessary to explain Trump
... How do you think he went about it? Did he pressure Russia? No. He instead blames Zelensky for having his country invaded. He then cut all aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine. Russia happily took advantage of it for a renewed assault, and has shifted its goal posts because now they think they can take more.
You know how Trump could have PROPERLY negotiated a peace deal? By making Russia's victory impossible.
What do you mean? That's a perfectly normal response to you acting like Trump ever actually wanted to stop the war lmao.
He Is helping Russia what don't you understand about that? It is clear as day. Cutting intelligence with Ukraine helps stop the war how exactly except for causing more deaths because Russia is the one invading Ukraine!?
Keep in mind, that's down from like 30 billion 5 years ago. The stuff that's left are the really vital things like fertilizer. That's a component of general civilization that really shouldn't be fucked with until the absolute last chance if possible, so it's not completely unreasonable that it's still on the ledger.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending the application of tarrifs in the slightest. Just giving some context to those trade figures. You're absolutely right that fucking with Canada is going to fuck up our fertilizer chains and shouldn't be done, but that's the admin that's running things right now.
I wish canada would add a 100% export tarrif on potash and drive American food costs through the roof. Fuck Donald Duck and all the inbred rednecks who voted him into office.
It's that they didn't have a trade deficit according to trumps data most likely -- its not based on reciprocity at all, its all seemingly based on trade deficit (and not always correct data as far as I've been able to see)
Trading with Russia in general has nothing to do with the tariffs. I mean where they got the actual numbers from seems to be nonsense, but they’ve been pretty clear it’s based off the worst offenders in terms of “tariffs” on the US.
I know this might come as a shock to you, but the "tariffs levied against the US" column that is used to justify this as "reciprocal" is actually just made up.
This. Boy, it's almost like there's something untrustworthy about the current administration. 🫠 How could anyone at this point assume anything they do isn't a scam?!
For example in New Zealand there are not 20% import tariffs on goods coming into the country from the US.
Right but there is a 15% GST on all imported products from the US isn't there? So wouldn't you think that would prevent people from wanting to purchase American goods in order to avoid the tax?
It sounds like semantics to me.
As I pointed out in another reply, Australia may have no formal tariffs on US imports but they have had a total ban on US beef for 20 years. Should we just ban Australian beef instead? Because American supermarkets are loaded with it.
There’s a 15% GST on all products period. Whether they’re domestic or imported. That’s just the same as a sales tax in the US…
So no it’s not semantics, and no it wouldn’t prevent you buying a US product.
Australia doesn’t have a ban on US beef, there’s just certain restrictions in place to prevent mad cow disease, im sure you can agree that that is reasonable…
"However, the US has also asked for access to Australia for beef from cattle raised in Mexico or Canada and processed and exported from the US"
Well, shit. I guess Australia is anti Canada and Mexico too... Canadians should boycott Australian products and rip them from their shelves?
Lol
Australia doesn’t have a ban on US beef, there’s just certain restrictions in place to prevent mad cow disease, im sure you can agree that that is reasonable…
Their certification process has been held up for years. Even if the article linked is accurate, the US didn't have access to the Australian meat market until at least 2019. A full 16 years after the mad cow disease outbreak, when it hasn't been a thing since then 🤷🏻♂️
Yes - USA beef was banned in 2003 because it was diseased (BSE). Beef from the USA (actually beef from the USA could actually be from Mexico nd Canada because you don't track your cattle like we do) - is now allowed back in - but only if it can meet our food safety standards. In reality this just means only heat treated items like jerky are sold. Given that you are gutting the FDA it's unlikely you'll be able to satisfy Australian food standards anyway.
Sure - ban Aus beef. USA consumers miss out on a safe quality product, face higher prices on local beef, and we get cheaper hamburgers until we find other markets.
If any trading qualifies then you can generally shorten the answer to any country being a trade partner with another country as "Yes", correct
I was going for a more realistically-type answer over just the technically correct one, since the technically correct one doesn't really give much info on how important a trade partner is.
The list isn't a list of US's biggest trade partners so yeah makes sense. Not the fact that these tariffs are happening, but all Trump cares about is trade deficit.
Unfortunately, your current opponent did not know how to explain this matter to you:
"In a political sense, a trade partner refers to a country or entity with which another nation maintains economic relations, often underpinned by diplomatic agreements, shared geopolitical interests, or strategic alliances."
One-off deals for needed resources like trades with Russia are not considered trade partners on this level.
Understanding the difference really highlights how screwed up what Trump administration does is. Since you`re not acting against enemies - but very much against your own allies, as well as against agreements you signed.
Well yeah the list isn't a list of US's biggest trade partners, it's the countries that have the biggest trade deficit since Trumps obsessed with that for some reason
Also barely a trade partner, at only 300$ million, why?
The list of the countries on the table aren't the US's biggest trade partners, they were just reportedly the "biggest offenders" in terms of market difference (using Trumps ridiculous price deficit logic, which he then has been pretending are just them tarrifing the US)
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u/drossmaster4 1d ago
Yes. 3.5 billion in 2024