Doesnt the US have important deals and strategic assets re. Space industry and defense here in Aus? Why the heck aren't we negotiating these tarifs?
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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feels like we'd be spineless to do even that
"Omg! Australia is attacking the US!" <- How our (US) media covers this, probably.
What is our dumbfuck president claiming for an excuse to tariff another one of our Five Eyes allies? What is the perceived slight that has set off this unstable man-baby POTUS?
(Did not read the article.. assuming answers can be found there.)
(Edit: have now read the article)
President Trump's announcement was made a day after Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles met with American Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
'That this advice has been given the day after our Deputy Prime Minister was in Washington to hand over billions of dollars to secure the AUKUS submarine deal is particularly troubling,' Mr Willox said.
This is all they said about the potential motivations. They had a meeting with our Christian Nationalist unqualified news commentator defense secretary, made a deal where Australia is paying the US for submarines. Now you all are getting Art-of -the-Deal'd. I would call it extortion and an act of war.
Aight boys, time to start putting it back in the ground.
Denominating all international trade in Euros would probably shut him right the fuck up.
I believe BRICS is already working to replace existing USD backed global rare earth and commodity markets with new markets backed by gold and BRICS currencies and without speculation based pricing.
America is no longer a superpower and will soon become just another country to plunder for resources, including human labour.
Please BRICS, save us.
Forgive me if I'm not excited at whatever dystopian nightmare BRICS comes up with.
There are 3 democratic countries in that alliance, Have some hope bro
The way Modi is at it, I'm not holding out much hope for India staying that way.
I am curious, what is that Modi doing ?
Assassinations domestically and foreign, voter intimidation, using the police to suppress dissent, using intelligence agencies to intimidate or frame journalists for crimes using NSO's malware. Putting through legislation to legitimize destruction of democratic institutions and other checks on his power.
I'm barely even scratching the surface. All hidden behind a father-knows-best cult of personality, much like Trump is trying to engender.
Oh I see
Fair point, worth tracking though
So the question is: what is he trying to distract from now.
First go round, yeah, Trump was distracting on purpose. The thing everyone seems to be missing is that, the man isn't in charge any more.
Look at his tweets, or whatever the fuck they're called, mostly focused and on point. Listen to his words, he doesn't ramble on and on and on. We only hear truncated quips.
Anyone remember how he got more and more demented as the election came closer? Anyone remember how his cognition dropped off a cliff in 2021 or so, and continued downwards, fast?
The Project 2025 people have got him locked in as a mouthpiece, nothing more. Competent people are now in charge, this won't be like 2017.
Competently evil people
I suspect these announcements by Trump are nothing but stock market scams with a whole bunch of insider trading going on.
Trump removed tariffs from Mexico and Canada after a few days. We'll see what happens with this
He's put back the 25% tariffs on Canadian steel
Yeah but that's all we have lol
He removed them for nothing. He was tricked. Both Canada and Mexico agreed to do things they were already going to do and Trump folded.
they were not removed, they were paused for 30 days, let's check back in 3 weeks, eh?
USian here. It really didn't matter - his friendly media repeated the lie that he forced those bad old countries to beef up drug and immigration enforcement via his big strong negotiation style. The fact that it's nonsense has no bearing on the political reality here, sadly.
there were stock market movements based on what Trump said
people who have insider knowledge would be able to make a lot of money on that
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