• @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    811 day ago

    It’s not fucking “strange”.

    It’s Canada, Japan, the EU, and our other former allies retaliating against the US trying to use absolutely asinine and ham-fisted tariffs as a cash grab/shakedown by engaging in strategic retaliatory fiscal policy.

    This is actual 4D geoeconomic chess. Because if orangeboi doesn’t listen and they keep going, the USD standard goes away.

    • @IMongoose@lemmy.world
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      616 hours ago

      This is the fully realized American Exceptionalism mindset. Trump thought the entire world was going to bend over backwards to deal with us because the USA is so great and awesome they had no choice.

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum
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      251 day ago

      It’s also American business interests losing faith in fascist America. Stupid ideas have painful consequences.

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        523 hours ago

        You say that like Brexit wasn’t the most successful political victory in the history of the world.

        • @SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
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          20 hours ago

          lol I didn’t need the /s

          Interesting that Carney was opposed to brexit but managed their central bank through it (as the first foreigner to run it, they wanted him that much) and now is part of, if not coordinating, the fuckyoudonny group of leaders selling their us bonds. Dude seems mild but should scare the shit out of the GOP.

    • Snot Flickerman
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      171 day ago

      The wealthy are no longer constrained by borders, so they don’t actually care if the US hegemony fails. They have investments all over the world.