r/worldnews • u/Significant-Colour • 1d ago

China strikes back at Trump with 34 percent tariff — bans rare earth exports to the U.S.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-strikes-back-on-trump-tariffs-bans-rare-earth-exports-to-the-u-s
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u/kingmanic 1d ago

It's like brexit, they negotiated sweet heart deals. Then Rage quit them and now have to negotiate standard deals because they lost their leverage.

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u/Wonderpants_uk 1d ago

We seem to have learnt our lesson from Brexit (although we still have Farage hovering around like a stale fart). 

We (the entire rest of the world) still can’t quite believe that you went through Trumps first term and decided you wanted more of it, though.

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u/Bman10119 1d ago

Its a major example of the deteriorating attention span. So many people forgot how bad trumps first term was after the relatively stable/boring biden term

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u/unknownpoltroon 1d ago

They didn't forget, it just didn't hurt THEM personally

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u/Over-Marsupial-3002 1d ago

maga's too stupid to interpret whether something's hurting them. these are just walking husks, drones like bees in a hive. the only way to fix this is to come up with a new "queen" and make the hive swarm. and even when they do swarm, they're still going to be stupid drones.

this is an issue that will take generations for the US to fix - if it even tries to fix the problem, which it probably won't. the US's time as leader of the world has ended.

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u/hadesflamez 1d ago

US's time as leader of the world has ended.

Good riddance.

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u/fredrikca 1d ago

We don't know what will replace them.

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u/jakktrent 1d ago

The US kept the world largely peaceful for 70 years - it's one of the longest periods without a real war between major powers in history.

If you're European, you've benefited enormously from American Hegemony. Putin isn't doing a draft bc of Ukraine - he's doing bc Europe is looking like a low hanging fruit right now.

Say what you will about America, but if history is proof of anything, and it always is, we are about to go into a period of wars at scales we haven't seen since WWII.

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u/jakktrent 1d ago

I have no idea what much of you are saying even means. I'm assuming you're annoyed about comments pertaining to Europe - I'm only literally reiterate the very reason that NATO exists to.protect Europe from Russian aggression. That is not my idea, I had nothing to do with the Cold War and neither did You. It doesn't change the reality of things tho.

It isn't going to be America that Europe needs to worry about. Greenland aside. I'm not sure that Americans can retake our government before dumbass moves are made there, I can't say.

This is of course assuming the worse. I still don't think of Europe as an adversary - I don't think you should be so quick to write off the US.

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u/Geno0wl 1d ago

China taking lead is better?

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u/BiggestFlower 1d ago

There’s a big difference between leading and being first/foremost/top. Leaders are nothing without followers.

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u/Reddvox 1d ago

Than Trump? At least they are stable in their evilness ... Trump is Chaotic Evil, China is Lawful Evil. I take lawful...

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u/Procrasturbating 1d ago

In some metrics I would argue yes, sadly.

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u/Mr_Black90 1d ago

Why would it necessarily be them? They're so dependent on selling to the US that America's downfall will hurt them immensely too.

I think the world is going to be leaderless for a while, but my personal bet is that Europe is where we'll find our next global powerhouse. What form that would take remains to be seen.

India might also be one to watch.

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u/Geno0wl 1d ago

Why would it necessarily be them

because they are trying to be the leaders. Look at all the soft power they are building up in Africa in the vacuum the US has left.

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u/berthannity 1d ago

No, but the EU and/or CANZUK sure is.

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u/sixtninecoug 1d ago

This got me thinking, is the fact that they don’t know it’s hurting them simply because of the news cycle?

When you’re fed negative information all day, even the good times will look like shit. So when things finally fail, they won’t notice it because they’ve been told it’s been failing for years already.

It’s all fucking marketing.

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u/unknownpoltroon 1d ago

>they're still going to be stupid drones.

Yeah, but imagine that much stupid enthusiasm harnessed for doing good.

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u/Over-Marsupial-3002 1d ago

That's what good leaders do. The problem is for America that's going to require around 3 generations to get the bell curve back to where it needs to be. And that's assuming the Americans start now, which they won't, and assuming that they elect many consecutive non-Nazi presidents, which they won't.

It's a collapsed empire.

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u/poet0463 1d ago

They actually wanted him to hurt lots of people they just didn’t think they’d be hurt. They love the hatred and the chaos.

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u/HadoBoirudo 1d ago

To be honest a lot didn't seem to mind dying with dignity from Covid. Crazy!

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u/Responsible_Pizza945 1d ago

Or they literally didn't know because they 'don't pay attention to politics.' Might as well go into the voting booth with a god damn blindfold, we would probably have better outcomes.

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u/Prestigious-Fig-7143 1d ago

I mean except for that whole mismanaged pandemic with over a million people dying and ensuing economic implosion. Except for those things. Now, back to the notion of people forgetting….

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u/taistelumursu 1d ago

You don't even have to remember anything. He straight up said he is making US an authoritarian fascist shit hole. And people still vote for him.

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u/bigb-2702 13h ago

He said nothing of the sort. You're just making shit up. From your mothers basement. Get a job.

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u/zookytar 1d ago

The propaganda apparatus is multi-tentacled and far-reaching. If we don't attack that, we will slip back quickly if we ever start to recover.

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u/caribou16 1d ago

I try to get news from a variety of sources, have a bookmark that opens up ten tabs with different news sites from across the US,t he world, some politically neutral, some with a political slant.

NINE of the ten today have nothing but coverage about the stock market's plunging due to the tariffs and related fall out. The one that for some reason doesn't mention the tariffs? Fox News!

The current headline articles they have up as of this minute:

  • NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN: Trump admin sends warning signal to states defying presidents executive orders
  • CATASTROPHIC FAILURE: Biden's 'ambitious climate goals' go down in literal flames by popular beach (picture of an off shore wind turbine on fire)
  • CRUDE MOVES: Study exposes how blue states 'self-inflicted" policies fueled high gas prices
  • CLEAR MESSAGE: Secretary of State Rubio stands up to European leaders, says Trump is absolutely right
  • DEADLY PATH: Slain jogger's final moments come to light as migrant suspect's trial begins (picture of bleached blonde, blue eyed woman, picture of brown skinned man)
  • DO YOUR RESEARCH: "Transgender activist tells Dr. Phil 'trans women are not males" (unflattering picture of trans woman, smirking picture of Dr. Phil)

The only mention at ALL of tariffs on the entire front page is a headline-less and picture-less link to a story called "Trump reacts to China's 34% tariffs on US goods" - reading the article, it's about how smart Trump's tariffs are and how China is panicking due to being outmaneuvered, which is the cause of their tariffs against the US.

So yeah, pretty fair and balanced, right?

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u/Mysterious_Crab_7622 1d ago

You think Canada isn’t being hit by the exact same propaganda? The difference is that Canadians are far more educated. American society has been allowed to rot from the inside out, the propaganda only works because it is taking advantage of the rot.

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u/shrug_addict 1d ago

Bullshit, the amount of right wing propaganda in Canada is a rounding error compared to what's spent in the United States

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u/ZephkielAU 1d ago

Because it works in the US.

It works elsewhere too, but it really works in America.

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u/shrug_addict 1d ago

It does, probably because that's where the most money is spent. Part of why America is in this mess is that several of its citizens think they are better than citizens of other countries for whatever reason. Don't be complacent and think it can't happen where you are because your population is "smarter".

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u/ZephkielAU 1d ago

We're all battling propaganda, and we're all dealing with corrupt pollies etc. and of course we're far from safe from it.

However the big thing that fucked America is that it's capitalism on steroids (also why it became so powerful so quickly), and that its politics is partisan as fuck. America has been heavily divided right far back as the civil war, and that divide never closed. Then you got things like Citizen United, legalising the fuck out of political bribery, and you allowed things like political judge appointments, gerrymandering etc. America has been split down red/blue lines for centuries, and actively encourages money and politics to mingle.

Trump has proven that America had zero legal protections in place across its institutions. It was all "norms" and "decorum" but Trump has turned it into an autocratic government without any meaningful resistance.

The UK got Brexit but that was just them exiting an economic alliance (majorly, majorly dumb on their part but it doesn't interfere with their political systems).

It's not that we're any less susceptible to propaganda, it's that our institutions and laws and systems are much better protected against a small bunch of crazy-ass idiots.

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u/dj_soo 1d ago

Um, Canada is weeks away from an election and the idiots here could easily let our far right version of trump get in

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u/Silverjackal_ 1d ago

Nah they knew. They didn’t forget. They’re just stupid, or don’t care about the consequences. As long as folks they hate get hurt.

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u/Wooden-Practice8508 1d ago

Covid masked a lot of the stupid shit he did. It was such a hectic period that most people barely remember how stupid he was back then as well

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u/ADrunkEevee 1d ago

That and propaganda.

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u/Reigar 23h ago

Have you ever seen the South Park episode with remember berries. Trump is essentially a remember berry. The reason people continue to vote for him is that most people are like the prisoner who gets out first in Shawshank redemption. They have woken up to a world that is alien to them. When they went to sleep shows like tim the toolman were how people wanted to see the world, what they woke up to was people screaming at the them for not using the individual preferred pronouns, or to dead name someone on accident. Worst is that you can't say sorry, as it is someone else who has stepped in and became the justice warrior for them. So Trump is a giant remember berry, with promises to make the world back to when people went to sleep.

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u/solarview 22h ago

Sorry but dismissing Trump’s popularity in the US as a lack of attention doesn’t take into account the hatred and ignorance of his support base. The fact is that enough people in the US identify with and support his way of thinking to vote him back in, with full knowledge of what he represents.

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u/RelentlessRogue 1d ago

Honestly, this is all still fallout from the September 11th attacks. Osama Bid Laden successfully radicalized enough of this country that it's destroying itself.

The ironic part is that the ones destroying it are doing so under a mistaken sense of national pride.

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u/zookytar 1d ago

I personally trace it back to Newt Gingrich and his Contract on America (that typo is intentional). He really accelerated the practice of filthy politics at any cost.

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u/RecklesslyPessmystic 1d ago

That was only made possible by Nixon's team of criminals conspiring and inspiring to create FoxNews and right wing radio to brainwash enough voters that their future crimes would not end up crushing their careers again.

Even Bush Sr. in his role as GOP Chair backed Nixon for as long as he could, then ended up having to pardon all the guys who ran Iran-Contra for him under Reagan's dementia-addled nose.

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u/thorzeen 1d ago

That was only made possible by Nixon's team of criminals conspiring and inspiring to create FoxNews and right wing radio to brainwash enough voters that their future crimes would not end up crushing their careers again.

Even Bush Sr. in his role as GOP Chair backed Nixon for as long as he could, then ended up having to pardon all the guys who ran Iran-Contra for him under Reagan's dementia-addled nose.

Don't leave out "milton friedman" from your list

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u/Shadowholme 1d ago

If it's still fallout from 9/11 after all this time then it's time to ditch the diapers, pull on your big girl panties and grow the fuck up!

Was it a tragedy? Yes it was
Was it worth mourning? Again, yes it was.

But was it nearly quarter of a century ago? Yes.
Is it time to get over it? Long past time.
Have you been responsible for 10 times the misery and death in your lashing out? Again, yes.

*RIGHT NOW* there are countries suffering worse attacks then 9/11. How much more suffering are you going to cause because you learned you weren't invulnerable like you thought?

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u/Mountain_Strategy342 1d ago

You say that, but was isolationist even then.

2977 people tragically lost their lives on the 11th September. The greatest single loss of life on US soil.

43,000 people lost their lives during 58 consecutive nights of bombing during the blitz.

The US was protected by being far away, now the world is smaller, had the US endured the blitz or something similar, it would be taught in every school, it would be "never again", they would have been engaged from the get go.

Instead they let fascism rise once more.

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u/rjnd2828 1d ago

A good number of us here can't believe it either

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u/RuthlessIndecision 1d ago

Raise generations to hate life and this is what manifests

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u/xibeno9261 1d ago

We seem to have learnt our lesson from Brexit (although we still have Farage hovering around like a stale fart).

Just wait till your idiots in the UK vote for Farage or someone like that into power. There is one thing the Trump reelection has taught the world. There is no shortage of idiots.

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u/vindico1 1d ago

Most of us didn't want it the first time ugh

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u/DGlen 1d ago

We (the 1/3 of the US) can't believe it either. Like if I could just pick up my family and leave I'd be out. Guess it's just protest for now. So much damage is already done it's un-fucking-believable.

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u/Describing_Donkeys 1d ago

Americans have been sheared from reality through Republican disinformation. Most Americans have no idea about what is happening. They don't know anything about Trump's first term outside of things were fine before covid. They don't know anything about Biden's term outside of there was inflation. Republicans broke Critical thinking. Social media helped, but republican messaging is what did it.

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u/Its-a-Shitbox 1d ago

Never underestimate the power of strategically placed billionaires and the amount of still existing racism.

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u/NimrodvanHall 1d ago

Boris Jonson and friends made a killing from Brexit. They’d probably do it again if given the chance.

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u/cerberus00 1d ago

Gullible people easily manipulated by tech & news, and the electoral college.

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u/B0risth3Blade 1d ago

Like the original comment, Americans are fucking stupid, that's why they wanted more of it. It's the only explanation.

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u/ipreferanothername 1d ago

Am American... I can't either

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u/Olde94 1d ago

although we still have Farage hovering around like a stale fart.

I love passive aggressive British

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u/nascentt 1d ago

We seem to have learnt our lesson from Brexit

We absolutely have not. Are you kidding?

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u/mastifftimetraveler 1d ago

I think it goes deeper than that. We didn’t learn from Europe when they rebuilt after WWII with stronger social safety nets. We just got money and became spoiled children.

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u/ToonaSandWatch 21h ago

Only 32% of the total voting population wanted it though. Half just stayed home or voted independent.

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u/ripsa 19h ago

Most polls have Reform in front or just short of in front. You know the people whose policy caused economic stagnation and more than tripled immigration. Regular British people have not learnt their lesson and will fall for conmen again in the same way Americans have.

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u/fefvrisketa 14h ago

All those wasted hours arguing with fellow Americans who "don't like trump, he's not a good person...but that woman" like I spent so much energy fighting and trying to re-educate these rock lickers that it's gonna be so much worse this time.

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u/Marco0798 1d ago

No we didn’t. I’m sorry but on this shit stop trying to climb the high horse. Brexit is still worse than what trump is doing. The only thing that even comes remotely close to Brexit is the Canada treatment but even then that would have been the EU kicking us out.

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u/ru_empty 1d ago

Tbf his first term was objectively not this bad. Because there were still adults in the room holding him back. A lot of voters said his prior term wasn't so bad so let's do another, believing that he would proceed to yell a lot and do very little again.

The rest of us like you took him at his word, but then this is reddit and literacy is a requirement

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u/humunculus43 1d ago

Yeah I can see so many Brexit parallels

1) celebrate sticking it to the man

2) insist it’s a great idea

3) things go wrong but will get better

4) it was a good idea but it’s everyone else’s fault it’s not working

5) just ignore it and stop talking about it, pretending everything is ok

6) the odd good thing happens and it is celebrated as a success of Brexit

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u/F_A_F 1d ago

I don't know many Leave voters but I will be respectfully asking them how they feel about the new American trading relationship which we were promised would be better than being in the EU single market?

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u/humunculus43 1d ago

lol they’ll all just say Trump is right. You’re usually talking to delusional losers who take joy in the pain of others

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u/bigb-2702 13h ago

He is. And you're the loser

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u/humunculus43 13h ago

bigly words

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u/OkNewspaper6271 1d ago

I know one, poor guy is heartbroken lmao

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u/Salaas 1d ago

Oh there's plenty of them about they just don't want it public they voted leave. Think only the diehards who regard the daily mail as high literature are the ones still admitting they voted leave.

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u/voyagerman 1d ago
  1. The results of the change were predicted and 51% of people ignored it.

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u/HammerSpanner 1d ago

Pride comes before the fall, as they say.

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u/zookytar 1d ago

Brexit also had some rumors of Russian support. I'd not be surprised if it was true.

In 2016, at first I laughed at the UK accidentally voting for Brexit. My laughter quickly turned when we seemingly accidentally elected Donald Trump as president.

Now the U.S. will do as you say and more. America will far out-stupid the UK after all.

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u/Slappyfist 1d ago

It was Cambridge Analytica, which was an American company.

There was Russia involvement as well but we've been dealing with their BS for centuries, what we were blind to was a cabal of unethical American million/billionaires infiltrating our media with machine learning propaganda that also used established Russian propaganda.

They've then aimed it themselves and see where that put them.

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u/Reedbtwnthelines 15h ago edited 15h ago

In 1997, the foundations of geopolitics: the geopolitical future of Russia was published by Aleksandr Dugin. Valued by Putin, it says the United Kingdom, merely described as an "extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.", should be cut off from the European Union"Foundations of Geopolitics

And absolutely Cambridge Analytica was crucial in its success.

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u/GoodMix392 1d ago

Brexit was also pushed hard by Russia. Just sayin!

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u/dobrz 1d ago

Pushed hard? It’s in their textbook that is actively being used to teach generals in Russia. Putin is also fascinated by it… Foundations of Geopolitics by Alexander Dugin. Check out wiki page and see what each chapter consist of and see if anything that has happened in the last 10-15 years across the world sounds familiar…

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u/GoodMix392 1d ago

Yup exactly, getting the UK to split from the EU is in there, I know. Mission accomplished on that front.

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u/dobrz 1d ago

There are few others.. things like NordStream 2 was solely built to connect Germany and Russia so the Russia could use gas supply to manipulate Eastern European counties without upsetting their ally Germany.

What is happening now in the US is exactly a chapter in that book too.. divide and alienate US so Russia is the superpower..

It’s frightening

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u/GoodMix392 1d ago

I know I recently met a super racist Nordstream engineer on a terrasse in Oberwallis. He told me my liberal opinions were bullshit and then proceeded to prove my point with his next sentence. A literal real life example of playing chess with a pigeon. His wife shushed him when he said Nordstream. So yeah those folks are a real hoot. But don’t worry between the cognac and cigars he looked like his soul would potentially leave his body with the next strong fart. And his wife knew that would be the case and looked happy about it. But the old Nordstream team do seem like people you shouldn’t associate with.

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u/hiatus_kaiyote 1d ago

Congrats US on speedrunning Brexit - it took the UK several of years of debate, a few prime ministers, and a lettuce. US has done it all in a week!

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u/redrum221 1d ago

Whats the story with the lettuce?

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u/hiatus_kaiyote 14h ago

Post-Brexit the UK briefly got a leader who crashed the UK economy with policy that economists liked about as much as the new tariff scheme.

A newspaper made a joke that she wouldn’t last as a leader for as long as an iceberg lettuce takes to go rotten - and it turned out to be true… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce

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u/papiierbulle 1d ago

France also played a good part in making the brexit a fairer thing that what UK wanted, so that UK was not screwing over the EU

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u/Willias0 1d ago

well except there weren't any sweet heart deals

just xenophobia, white nationalism, and transphobia

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u/kingmanic 1d ago

I'm referring to the existing trade which made America extremely rich. The race to the bottom for costs of resources and manufacturing world wide to supply the US with goods. Making computing components cheap enough that everyone carries around a huge amount of processing power daily. The developed worlds alignment to advance American interests.

As well as the privileged deal the UK had with Europe and how much wealth that was flowing into the UK because of unique bridge points between European business and US business.

For both the existing status quo was good for them and they burnt it for the things you mentioned.

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u/AnnualAct7213 1d ago

The US economy has basically been running with cheat codes on since WWII, thanks to the US' financial, political and military hegemony of the world.

And now the US is intentionally throwing away all those perks it enjoyed and pissing off every partner that helped keep that status quo.

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u/ZalutPats 1d ago

HAHA the UK had so many sweet deals from the EU it was unbelievable. Throwing it all away was just proof that it doesn't matter how many benefits you get, if they're squandered by the party on top at the time then the brown people will still be blamed.

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u/Big_lt 1d ago

Funny part is a large portion of us who voted for Kamala are from the blue states. The blue states are the primary breadwinners in the US who have been supporting our idiotic neighbors for decades.

Even though we are less (in terms of EC voters) we create a majority of the US GDP.

Imagine if we cut off the bible belt from the US and made them free to do whatever they want with Texas. Outside of Texas, nothing of value would've been loss in a GDP sense

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u/catchemist117 1d ago

the more I think about it, the more I want the bible belt to fuck off and do their own thing. They'll be a backwards ass nation that can't do anything.

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u/justtosendamassage 1d ago

If it wasn’t for the people who would have been enslaved, maybe our country splitting in two would have been a good idea.

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u/Big_lt 1d ago

I'd assume the south would be viewed like a Qatar

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u/megatesla 1d ago

Please no, I live in Austin. :'(

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u/chubbybronco 1d ago

My wife is Ukrainian and I have family who didn't vote but always tell my wife "oh we feel so terrible about what's happening I hope your family is ok". 

It's so fake it makes me sick, they couldn't even bother doing something as simple as vote to keep the Russian puppet out of the White house. Hearing people's excuse why they couldn't be bothered to vote really raises my blood pressure. 

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u/HyperactivePandah 1d ago

Thanks for at least acknowledging those of us who voted against him, and continue to fight against him.

I know it's not easy for most people (understandably).

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u/MyOtherAcoountIsGone 1d ago edited 1d ago

I bet your fight is almost nothing. What have you actually done.

Edit: I'm really digging how "what have you actually done" has triggered all the complacent Americans. I hope you guys sit on that for a bit. Realize how cooked you are and actually do something. Stop fucking whining if you're not gonna proceed with action.

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u/GOU_FallingOutside 1d ago

So far? Protesting.

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u/MyOtherAcoountIsGone 1d ago

So nothing?

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u/GOU_FallingOutside 1d ago

The problem is there’s not a lot of steps between protesting and lighting shit on fire, and healthwise I’m not in a great position to be lighting shit on fire. Among other things, it’s really not safe for me to own a weapon.

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u/Otherdeadbody 1d ago

Waiting for the right moment, which might be coming soon. Protests before now were frankly never gonna do anything because most people just want to work their jobs and live their lives as if nothing should ever affect them. Now their 401ks are directly affected and there should be much more political will to actually do something in the coming weeks. There is this bizarre feeling in America that we should just live our lives as normal regardless of the rest of the world while our country tries to put itself in front of everyone else. It’s stupid but now they will actually feel its effects.

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u/m3g4m4nnn 1d ago

Waiting for the right moment, which might be coming soon.

Aaaaannnnyyyyy day now- but definitely not yet!

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u/Otherdeadbody 1d ago

Look, it’s either wait until enough idiots wake up or just fail idk what to tell you.

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u/m3g4m4nnn 1d ago

You don't need to tell me a thing- it's quite apparent for those of us on the outside looking in.

My bets are on option #2, although I wish that weren't the case. Would love to be proven wrong.

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u/peanutbutter854 1d ago

Heroin brain moment…

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u/MyOtherAcoountIsGone 1d ago

So what have you done?

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u/peanutbutter854 1d ago

Freely shit myself

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u/ElonMusksSexRobot 1d ago

What’s your advice then? A violent Revolution against a government that controls the largest and most powerful military in the world? Yeah that will go well

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u/Cirias 1d ago

Honestly the best thing now would be for the sane states to secede and form a new nation.

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u/Germane_Corsair 1d ago

I don’t think Canada wants you.

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u/MajorNoodles 1d ago

My state went for Trump 2 out of 3 times. I wouldn't want it either.

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u/GaiusPrimus 1d ago

US is the new old Russia

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u/ThinkOutTheBox 1d ago

U.S.S.A.

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u/FuckingShowMeTheData 1d ago

Back in the USSA, the water turned the frogs gay

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u/long5210 1d ago

U United S States S Soviet R Republicans

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u/StagOfSevenBattles 1d ago

Yankeedoodlestan now

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u/mogul26 1d ago

This is the point, they outline it in Project 2025. They want to isolate the US completely.

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u/cheezfreek 1d ago

Many of us were always skeptical of these “checks and balances” they kept talking about, but now we have definitive proof that they were just smoke and mirrors. Their system was always based on the honour system. We just didn’t have proof of it until people with no honour whatsoever took over.

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u/ifuckingloveLego 1d ago

They are not bothered.

Some are ambivalent, but most are apathetic.

The people who are concerned will take to thier keyboard and type some stuff about how much they object and the like but truth be told they don't care enough to get off there back side and do anything about it.

They won't protest like the French. They won't demand change like the Arab spring.

They are paralysed by inaction, and their only hope is that the orange man may die before irreparable damage is done.

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u/DikTaterSalad 1d ago

Sad part is, those that voted him, will vote for the next shit sammich with an R next to their name. Same shit, new bread, come next election. Assuming we have another presidential one.

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u/skeletal88 1d ago

The thing is even Kamala was stupid in different ways.

Biden kept holding back aid to Ukraine for stupid reasons and dragging his feet. 

The US needs a different political system where there are multiple choices on elections so that during elections each party doesnt have to try to win over extremists insife thrir electorate. The left wing lgbtq pto palestine nutjobs could have their own party, and the more moderate democrats could stay in the current party. Same for republicans - the sni immigration and anti vax maga trump musk fanboys could have their own right wing party while the actual republicans could stay in the original one

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u/GrasshopperSunset 1d ago

Their logic is "I'd never travel to that country anyway so what do I care what happens to them so long as I get mine." People that can't see past the borders of their own Podunk town somewhere in middle America where "they've got everything they'd ever need."

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u/TheGreywolf33 1d ago

It was the plan. Privatization of education and it worked like a charm. Might honestly be the biggest blow to America ever.

They somehow got people who could NEVER afford the type of education that's being held for ransom, to think that there would be no consequences if education is segregated from the poor.

And it happened. I have been fighting against this for a long time only for people to tell me to shut up and I'm wrong. Well look who's right.

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u/show_me_tacos 1d ago

That is why, as of today, I have completely removed any American companies from my investment portfolio and bought into ETFs that invest completely outside of North America

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u/Henshin-hero 1d ago

He's making North Korea look like a nice place to move

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u/Mein_Bergkamp 1d ago

Tang the Conquered once again being Putin's trump card.

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u/BlackMetal81 1d ago

I'm an American, and I approve this message

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u/SearcherRC 1d ago

I want to hate your post, but you aren't wrong. I keep arguing with my friends about how bad Trump is and they keep defending him. They will reap what they have sown.

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u/abrandis 1d ago

It's more than a third he won the popular vote. Don't blame him for the Democrats shit show (Running Biden,then bailing ) . I say let it burn🔥 and let see what happens

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u/Pinklady777 1d ago

You are absolutely right and it's just devastating. There was so much potential here but greed and hate won.

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u/Trance354 1d ago

We.

We sat on our laurels after being told decades ago that this fecal matter-encrusted "Grand Old" party was gaining power in the local governments & the state governments.

We voted in a septigenarian(sp?) as president and watched while the far right threw all the fecal matter at the wall, hoping anything would stick, and we took the high road when they just started making shit up, when nothing stuck.

We didn't go to our congress-persons and demand action over Trump's illegal actions. We didn't call/write out representatives and demand action. We listened to MSNBC rant and rave about how this has never happened before. We watched taking heads hem and haw, cite a 50 year old memo as the reason a former president can't be brought up on charges.

They failed, miserably, don't get me wrong. Our congress and the House need to be cleaned out, completely if necessary. We need term limits set to something approaching reality. Career politicians shouldn't exist, and the president should have about as much power as congress allows him/her

That said, we failed, too. We are the check on their power. Complacency is what we have.

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u/atroutfx 1d ago

Yeah I am pretty damn ashamed of the other 2/3rds of Americans. It is beyond infuriating, because we fucking tried to tell them. Apathy and blind faith in “vibes” is what is fucking us.

It is fucking crazy that many people lack the basic critical thinking skills to see this shit coming from a mile away. It is beyond stupid on multiple levels. It breaks the fundamental ideals the US was founded on. Tarrifs are taxes and the founders of the US were obsessed with preventing a single person having control over the taxation of the people. That shit was even in the manga carta. It has just been abandoned and his supporters in government are letting him to whatever the fuck he wants. So not only is it shitty to betray all of our partners and friends in the world he is also fucking America square in the ass. People are so damn asleep here.

Being a progressive that believes in the good of others no matter what country they are from or background. This shit is pretty fucking painful. All of my morals and ideals are being shat on daily by this fucking authoritarian that stole my country.

Justice is concern for others and this administration has completely abandoned it.

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u/bonzoboy2000 1d ago

Not just Trump. But his key enablers. He’s not alone here.

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u/spelledliketheboy 1d ago

It’s seriously so devastating. And these MAGA dickheads think they are the patriotic ones (hence all the ridiculous American flag attire), and they think we hate America because we are criticizing the calculated destruction of the GOP.

And fuuuuuuuck those people who either didn’t vote or protest voted against Kamala because of Palestine.

We tried to warn them. We really, really tried.

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u/OnesPerspective 1d ago

Like Putin, it's a US economic "special operation”

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u/Trafagaga 1d ago

No you're wrong, did you hear Kamala's laugh?? That is worse than anything Trump is doing

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u/Jamalamalama 1d ago

I did vote against Trump (both times), but I understand why a lot of people don't vote. Many people can't afford to vote because voting happens on a Tuesday and the only place they can vote takes hours of waiting in line and they literally can't take the time or they can't feed their family. Many others don't vote because the electoral college has rendered their vote irrelevant. Some don't vote because they feel disenfranchised by both parties and through a combination of a degraded education system and a deeply corrupt news industry they don't think voting makes a difference. There are some people that skip voting because they just can't be bothered, but they're actually pretty rare, and most of them are just young and underinformed.

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u/SassiesSoiledPanties 1d ago

That the US election day is not a holiday is baffling to me.

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u/thebritishhippie 1d ago

Well some of those are children who can't vote so...

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u/Confident-Radish4832 1d ago

Where are you from, because your post history is pretty fucking ignorant at the moment.

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u/daemon_panda 1d ago

As a person who voted for Harris, I feel like not enough blame is put on the Democratic strategy. It frequently has included belittling and ignoring kitchen table issues

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u/Qwirk 1d ago

The only way back is for new administration to put new measures in place to prevent this from happening again going forward.

At the end of the day, money is money and these countries will sell to us but the prices aren't going to be what they were.

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u/Freaked_The_Eff_Out 1d ago

I mean.. yeah.

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u/Lanky-Gain-80 1d ago

Harris thought “told ya so” was going to win her the election and was trash otherwise. Educated already knew what she was saying. Wasn’t anything new. She should have focused on the everyday American and got on their level. Now she is laughing at everyone’s misery. Her and the Dems conceded and put everyone into a shitty spot. She and the other Dems are just as much to blame for this imho.

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u/anime_waifu_lover69 1d ago

You could just say that you didn't keep up with the election instead of lying and looking dumb, dude.

You do realize that the American people elect the president, right? A literal sack of shit could have been the Dem candidate and should have won handily if Americans weren't so braindead.

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u/secrestmr87 1d ago

Why are you so angry lol? You don’t even live here. And like everyone on here keeps telling me tariffs are only going to hurt America. Why does this matter so much to you? You can just trade with other countries. All this outrage is so weird to me. Everyone in the world cares so much about America and watches every move we do and gets outraged, but at the same time is says it doesn’t matter to them, only going to hurt America. Just worry about your own country. It tariffs, get over it, move on. Touch some grass man, you going to be ok.

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u/Muthafuckaaaaa 1d ago

We care because the shockwaves are affecting the entire world's economy as a whole. This is having an immediate and lasting effect on the entirety of the world. Not just those living in your country...

Your uneducated comment shows exactly why we're in this mess to begin with. Hope you're proud of yourself. It must be nice living in your deluded reality.