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Trump administration 2024-2028

brihard said:
For sure. I wasn’t just taking about Canada though; the context of the conversation was as countries walking away from the Ottawa treaty.

Maybe that’s part of our disconnect if you assumed I could only be talking about us. But the post I initially replied to was talking about NATO broadly, and I later also asked if real combat in Ukraine had validated this expectation and practice.
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All NATO is the same when it comes to detailed records for anything hand or mechanically laid (this predates the Ottawa treaty) and everyone using scatterable systems uses time-limited systems.
 
It’s a dumb list. El Salvador - the country that’s taking his deportees into their prisons - is being hit with a tariff.
He thinks he’s running Costco where everybody pays a fee for access.
 
McG said:
Tariffing themselves?
https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3llukkxo3d22x
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Irony James Willems GIF by Rooster Teeth
 
The Bread Guy said:
Meh - if you needed resiliency, to take a chestnut from the past about wives, the military would issue it, right? Back to the days of “if they’re not doing well outside, they must be weak & no longer our problem.” :( I guess this is all part of the “empathy is for the weak” ethos around these days - for now, anyway.
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He labeled McCain as a loser for being captured so I imagine his administration's empathy for service members who are damaged/need help would be pretty low. I'm surprised VA has gone the way of the DoEd.
 
The US has published their tariff equation.
ustr.gov

Reciprocal Tariff Calculations

Executive Summary Reciprocal tariffs are calculated as the tariff rate necessary to balance bilateral trade deficits between the U.S. and each of our trading partners. This calculation assumes that persistent trade deficits are due to a combination of tariff and non-tariff factors that prevent...
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I’m not sure how that produces tariffs on US/UK military bases nor on islands without humans … perhaps some overly keen undergrad applied a Laplace transform to work around a divide by zero error?
 
ModlrMike said:
It is generally accepted that Smoot-Hawley precipitated the Great Depression.
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Yep, that's why I brought it up. The weighted average Trump tariff percentage is 29%, that's 9% higher than Smoot-Hawley. The US now also imports about 5x more than they did in the 1930's. Ironically time may very well be a flat circle, just a lot smaller than imagined.
 
Imagine raising the cost of living by 30% overnight. I still marvel that the average American doesn't realize that this is quite literally a tax that they're going to fund from their pockets, not ours. The world is going to shift away from the US being the trade cornerstone and the result is not going to be pretty for them. Even after a change in government, new trading relationships and supply chains will be cemented, and there will be no appetite to return to prior arrangements. The US has proven itself an unreliable partner, an nobody is going to trust their word again.
 
And so unfortunately it begins -


www.detroitnews.com

Stellantis pausing some Canadian, Mexican assembly plants as tariffs arrive

Idling the assembly plants is set to trigger about 900 temporary layoffs at some U.S. powertrain and stamping facilities.
www.detroitnews.com

The article from the Detroit News is important because it directly calls out 1 of the Michigan plants that will be closed as a direct result of the Windsor facility to be closed. The article says that a number of facilities in both Michigan and Indiana will be closed as well.
 
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