r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/retze44 1d ago

Make it cheap so oligarchs can get the fuck out of russia and buy all the assets cheap. Better learn russian :)

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u/77NorthCambridge 1d ago

All they have to do is pay Trump $5 million to become American citizens, sanctions no longer apply, and they can freely travel to the US.

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u/PenaltyDesperate3706 1d ago

Next scene is trump picking up an additional fight with the EU re unfreezing Russian oligarchs’ assets for a 25% commission

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u/77NorthCambridge 1d ago

You mean like putting "tariffs" on Canada to justify buying Russian potash?

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u/PenaltyDesperate3706 1d ago

Nope. I mean making the EU banking institutions give back whatever they have on frozen Russian assets so the oligarchs can bring those funds to “invest” in the US.

If I were Canada, I would set an export tax on sales of Canadian potash to the US “because all Canadians are in this together”