r/AdviceAnimals 1d ago

$11 trillion later

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u/pistilpeet 1d ago

All those countries on his big dumb fucking tariff board, and who is missing? Moscow. It’s blatant at this point, the mask is off.

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u/Sinjun13 1d ago

It was blatantly obvious during his first term.

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u/soapinthepeehole 1d ago

It was obvious before he was elected. Hillary told the whole world in the debates. McConnell refused to help Obama alert the American public to election interference because it would hurt republicans.

And here we are now, neck deep in this shit.

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u/Gimme_The_Loot 1d ago

Aren't there sanctions against us doing business with them anyway?

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u/samenumberwhodis 1d ago

There are, but we still have around $3B worth of imports of other goods not sanctioned

https://www.inquirer.com/business/us-russia-trade-imports-still-continue-despite-sanctions-blockade-20220825.html

Imports are down significantly but not zero

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/russia

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u/pistilpeet 1d ago

Yes, but as far as I know those sanctions only last until peace talks with Ukraine start. I’m hoping someone smarter than I am will chime in.

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u/Dreadnought_69 1d ago

You could say something similar about uninhabited islands.

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u/whereswaldro 1d ago

He is. I repeat that every day to my wife. Everything he is doing is right out of Putin’s playbook to create as much instability as possible. He doesn’t care about America. Putin has had him for some while now and it shows in everything Trump is doing. Wife and I are getting the little guy’s passport asap in case something is to truly happen and so when we decide to flee this he’ll hole in a few years we can.

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u/Whackles 1d ago

So where do you think to just go?

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u/whereswaldro 1d ago

Would love to end up somewhere like Sweden or Switzerland. Being from the northeast I don’t mind the cold so maybe Canada. Just not a country where half the people are absolute morons who only care about themselves. I also couldn’t be any less religious so I would love to be in a country that isn’t as dumb as we are here letting religion ruin what could be a great society.

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u/Whackles 1d ago

I’m more asking do you have the means to go there? Like you either need a job or a ton of money

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u/whereswaldro 1d ago

Ahh well hopefully in a few years we will. Wife is an educator and I have a few degrees and different skill sets that should lend well to moving to a different country. We certainly couldn’t do that right now but we aren’t looking to either. Maybe in a few years depending on how soon Trump starts WWIII when he tries to take Greenland. My biggest concern is that somehow he either illegally finds a way to run for a 3rd term or some other nut job in the Republican Party takes up where he left off in which case I will cross the border by foot if I have to. I know the next 3 years are going to be incredibly difficult on the middle class (me) and I’m preparing for that but I won’t be a part of this country if it continues down the road it’s on. We’ve been taught this country is great and it stand for freedom and democracy but that’s not what the people of this country have shown recently when they voted that orange piece of shit back into office.

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u/Mncdk 1d ago

In addition to what Whackles mentions, you also need to be allowed in to another country, in order to move there. You can't just show up and stay, that's usually illegal. And they typically don't just let anyone move in. There will be requirements, and hoops to jump through.

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u/whereswaldro 23h ago

Yes. I’m fully aware. Thank you.

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u/Zubbo64 20h ago

what about moving to Russia they give Americans citizenship fairly easy and there country is going to be doing a lot better now with trump in office

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u/whereswaldro 20h ago

Not a big vodka fan unfortunately.

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u/Torgrow 1d ago

If anyone else was a foreign asset they'd be trying to hide it better than this.

Is everyone at the pentagon just completely without any intuition? No suspicions at all? I thought these were global intelligence masters who know what dictators have for breakfast. What's happening in front of their face is just too hard to piece together from the clues?

The president having secret meetings with our biggest enemy and then praising him isn't a thousand foot-wide red flag? Are all the spy stories we hear about the intel agencies completely made up?

"Golly, this Putin guy must be up to something. Anyone got any ideas? I'm stumped. Man, figuring things out is all hard and stuff. I just wanted to be like James Bond and shoot guys with metal teeth."

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u/pistilpeet 1d ago

It really doesn’t make sense, in fact it’s getting harder to accept that this whole thing isn’t an inside job.

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u/getridofwires 1d ago

They don't have to hide it because the Supreme Court gave him immunity.

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u/Hates_rollerskates 1d ago

He doesn't have to hide a thing because he controls the largest news outlets in America and installed loyalists as heads of the FBI and DOJ. He controls what people hear and the head of the Federal police wouldn't dare question him.

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u/Scavenger53 17h ago

No suspicions at all?

The FBI did a report, was a whole big thing last time he was president, concluding that he in fact is a russian asset

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u/Bleezy79 1d ago

Only a moron would think he’s not. Only a moron would continue to support him

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u/GregEveryman 1d ago

I think that it is best summarized as a distinction without a difference.

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u/DanimalPlays 1d ago

That's how we know.

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u/just1nc4s3 1d ago

I feel like there’s a HUGE difference between not knowing if he’s a Russian asset or not, and waiting for a major news outlet (controlled by the people benefiting from capitalism) to flat out, definitively say that he is a Russian asset.

Things can be true despite the news not reporting it, or worse, twisting the story, which is pretty much everyday at this point.

Journalistic integrity died. The dagger was made of benji’s.

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u/pegasuspaladin 1d ago

At this point I think he is just running cover for Putin and doing all the things that would get Putin a total embargo if he tried them. When/if Trump can get Canada and Greenland he will "sell" them to Russia to "pay off" our debt

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u/ImplementDry6632 1d ago

Yes we do know for sure.

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u/GiveEmWatts 1d ago

We know. It was proven. There was an entire report written on it by intelligence agents.

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u/Killbot_Wants_Hug 1d ago

Actually the county that has benefitted the most from Trump is th Chinese. Everything he's done in the name of America has only helped bring China closer to surpassing America.

He does things Russia wants as well, but Russia isn't in the position to become the world's leading super power if America's standing was to fall. China on the other hand, they're basically inheriting all the good will that use to flow to America. They'll also absorb a lot of the business that America loses.

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u/demonkey1 1d ago

What ever happened to the young lady who showed up at his Mar Largo Florida golf course and told him she was a Rothschild, but it turned out she was a Ukrainian/Russian. ??

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/27/fake-heiress-infiltrates-mar-a-lago-trump

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u/ClubSoda 1d ago

Putin will award Trump the Grand Star of Russia for services rendered to the Kremlin.

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u/BicycleOfLife 1d ago

I think we actually do know pretty definitively.

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u/MikeyJBlige 1d ago

Trump likes money too much to carry Putin's water for free. He's on Putin's payroll and has been for a long time.

Agent Krasnov reporting for duty, comrade.

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u/RL24 1d ago

We do know.  It's obvious.

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u/personalcheesecake 1d ago

The people who contort information given about outside influence culturally and politically (the convicted in mueller report, tenet media, having lavrov and another high official from russia alone in the white house for example) mistake purposefully or not that there is indeed influence but there is not necessarily yet concrete evidence of him being involved to the point that some conflate as an active agent for russia. However, there can be more than one explanation to how these actions can be determined to be legitimate where trump wants to be an autocrat as he has said publicly he admires putin. Russia, or putin's objective is to restore ussr and cripple the us. trump wants to change influence to own everything in the hemisphere, like an autocrat would, damn the consequences.

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u/KMack666 1d ago

Oh, they had him pegged in '77, made KGB contact in 1980, then started giving him money shortly after that! It's all documented!

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u/Alberta_Flyfisher 23h ago

Oh we know for sure. There is no ability for him to deny that he is simply the western arm for putin

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u/johnrraymond 21h ago

Um, but we do know he is a russian agent. Have you not been paying attention? There is no doubt anymore.

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u/debruehe 20h ago

Funnyly enough he also fucked the Russian markets without even touching the Russians.

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u/copingcabana 14h ago

He might be a Russian asset, but he's definitely a US liability.

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u/Malusorum 9h ago

I think he would be more subtle about it.

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u/ipub 8h ago

Coming soon to a Krasnov near you.

  1. Ease Sanctions on Russia

  2. Reduce Support for Ukraine

  3. Undermine NATO Cohesion

  4. Implement Trade Policies Favoring Russia

  5. Discredit Domestic Critics

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u/Enough-Parking164 1d ago

Not a damn thing.

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u/phxees 1d ago

I want to agree, but specifically on tariffs it seems like Russia would have lower tariffs on China. Also Russia would probably let ByteDance own 100% of TikTok in the US.

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u/i_thrive_on_apathy 1d ago

Russia and China aren't really friends. China is just more than happy to take advantage of Russia whenever the opportunity presents itself.

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u/Wotzehell 1d ago

A russian asset? No, he's a friend of Putin. One might argue about what would be best for russia or what would have been best for russia in the recent past but Putin's course isn't.

One might argue that doing what putin wants has proven to be a good way to destroy russia...

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u/workingbored 1d ago

Huh?

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u/Wotzehell 1d ago

Putin running the country hasn't turned out to be all that good for Russia. Being Putin's friend would make Trump a russian asset if Putin would be interessted in doing what's best for Russia.

Putin is more interessted in a place in the history books, he wanted to be hailed as the hero who put russia back on the map, made it mighty again.

He went about it the wrong way and now he'll sacrifice as many russian soldiers as it takes to secure his wobbly seat. Not in the best interesst of Russia.

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u/MerryTreez 1d ago

We know. He isn’t.

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u/sandozguineapig 1d ago

Is he a Russian liability now?

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u/MerryTreez 22h ago

You didn’t hear? Hillary Clinton paid for the Russia, Russia, Russia dossier. Keep up.

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u/dblan9 1d ago

Right, and 8 republican senators spent July 4th in Moscow because the hotdogs and hamburgers are Johnny American good!

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u/MerryTreez 22h ago

No Obama was the one that enjoys Hotdogs. Remember, he ordered $65,000 dollars worth of them.