• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    It’s not fucking “strange”.

    It’s Canada, Japan, the EU, and our other former allies retaliating against the US trying to use absolutely asinine and ham-fisted tariffs as a cash grab/shakedown by engaging in strategic retaliatory fiscal policy.

    This is actual 4D geoeconomic chess. Because if orangeboi doesn’t listen and they keep going, the USD standard goes away.

    • IMongoose@lemmy.world
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      This is the fully realized American Exceptionalism mindset. Trump thought the entire world was going to bend over backwards to deal with us because the USA is so great and awesome they had no choice.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      The wealthy are no longer constrained by borders, so they don’t actually care if the US hegemony fails. They have investments all over the world.