Part of it is his behaviour pattern: He likes to hurt people, he likes the attention he gets from hurting people and he likes making people beg him to stop. (I.e. the rapist mentality)
He’s imposed the tariffs to hurt people and now he wants counties to beg him to stop. And some smaller countries (such as Vietnam) have had to approach hat-in-hand. But the larger ones or the ones able to bear with a bit of temporary pain and can band together — they aren’t playing this time. They’re making permanent changes that will both outlast the Republican administration and be negative long-term.
For the supposed investment commitments, I strongly suspect those are double-counted with the ones made to the Biden administration under the IRA (which was all-carrot and very effective and which the Republican administration has vowed to do away with).
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u/Alternative_Year_340 2d ago
Part of it is his behaviour pattern: He likes to hurt people, he likes the attention he gets from hurting people and he likes making people beg him to stop. (I.e. the rapist mentality)
He’s imposed the tariffs to hurt people and now he wants counties to beg him to stop. And some smaller countries (such as Vietnam) have had to approach hat-in-hand. But the larger ones or the ones able to bear with a bit of temporary pain and can band together — they aren’t playing this time. They’re making permanent changes that will both outlast the Republican administration and be negative long-term.
For the supposed investment commitments, I strongly suspect those are double-counted with the ones made to the Biden administration under the IRA (which was all-carrot and very effective and which the Republican administration has vowed to do away with).