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/ciel_lanila I voted 1d ago edited 1d ago

Just looked the raw GDP numbers in case anyone is curious. .

  • US with CA: $30.338 trillion
  • European Union (as a whole): $20.29 trillion
  • China: $19.535 trillion
  • Germany: $4.922 t
  • Japan: $4.390 t
  • India: $4.270 t
  • California: $4.1 t
  • UK: $3.731 t
  • Skipping a few
  • Russia: $2.197 t

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u/SweetAlyssumm 1d ago

We also have a bunch of military bases. We could almost actually do this.

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u/seaQueue 1d ago

We'd probably want to bring OR and WA along for the ride

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u/ArmyofRiverdancers 19h ago

We probably need to bring both. They bring water supply and lumber, agricultural backup areas should water supplies in SoCal get so critical you need to start shutting the tap for SoCal agricultural zones. A full Pacific coast secession monopolizes shipbuilding and ports in Pacific, including submarine facilities up in Puget Sound. An internal operation modifying algorithms at Google would be a serious win in the information war. If we can get Hawaii we have a better chance. Alaska? On one hand a prize for resources, but it's proximity to Russia means that they'll take AK back as fair game and we wouldn't be able to defend them.

This is ofc entirely hypothetical, off the top of my head and months of doomscrolling, and you should TOTALLY start crunching the numbers.