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Delicious. Simply delicious. Trump didnt just pick up the gun, load the gun, aim the gun at his foot, fire the gun, claim it would make him run better and fall over. He then got back up and did it all again with the other foot still claiming it would make him run better.
It takes a truly special kind of stupid to be at Trumps level.
Trump isn’t stupid, at least not that stupid. Your analogy would work better if instead of shooting his own foot he’s shooting Uncle Sam’s foot. You act confused because you think he works for Uncle Sam. He does not. He’s a Russian asset: his job is to make sure Uncle Sam never walks again, while pretending he’s not doing it on purpose so he can keep doing it.
When you look at it that way, all his actions make perfect sense. He works for Putin and he’s doing a good job. Until people realize this he’ll keep sabotaging the US.
He can be both: working for Putin and a complete moron.
You don’t threaten to sue the school you attended if your grades are released unless you know they are nothing to be proud of. Also, that professor or teacher that said Trump was the dumbest student he had to teach in all his years.
I think he might actually be that stupid tho
He’s evidently working to destroy the USA and its alliances, which serves Russia’s interests. But it’s hard to know whether he’s doing so deliberately or unwittingly.
I’m pretty sure Putin played his narcissistic ass like a fiddle in the attempt to destabilize the US in order to win in Ukraine, and it’s paid off so much more than he ever dreamed.
It’s not even about stupidity, he literally can’t admit he made a mistake and work to fix it. Triple down if you have to, never show “weakness”. What a fucking putz.
Good point. He bankrupted several of his casinos as practice, and now he is bankrupting the US.
Putin continues to finance trump and has bailed him out of bankruptcy in the past. None of this is foot shooting, its all trashing the US from top to bottom as Putin planned. Every day Putin wins and people scratch their heads wondering why trump would do such stupid things.
It is all building to him putting the gun to his head with the promise it will make him stronger than ever. He will retaliate to these retaliations because it is all he understands. All his life he has just ignored or run head first at problems planning to solve them in the moment with his superior mind and it has never worked, and he never learns. More than that he never sees it as failed, and that is what so much of the US voted for and the world saw it.
We need to change this rhetoric. Trump isn’t going to be hurt by this. It’s more apt that he’s taking a machine gun to all of our feet. He hasn’t been held accountable for anything he’s made us suffer through.
You’re thinking like he still needs to be elected again and popularity matters.
One way or the other, Trump is going to rule America until he dies or is in prison.
Bet the US is suddenly going to buy these minerals out of Russia. Bet one of Trump’s children or in-laws indirectly owns a exporting company in Russia.
I think we’re in stage 2 now: find out
All this instability has me direly worried about what will happen if China invades Taiwan. Like, if we think it’s bad now, an invasion of Taiwan would grind our systems to a halt.
Also, China is going to give the finger to US companies and Trump and make even more counterfeit stuff.
Companies complaining about Chinese IP ain’t seen nothing, yet.
That’s not a problem I’ll just go ask one of my historical trade partnohnoholyfuckwhatdidijustdo.
Never fight a trade war
on two frontsagainst every country simultaneously.he is repeating history, starting trade wars to trigger world war.
The MIC already worked a solution since last time China restricted exports; both Cali and Australia would pick up production.
The problem with rare earth isn’t that it’s rare, it’s that they only exist in low concentrations, and the total lack of labor and environmental laws in China means that there is no room for external competitors to compete on price… Our modern neoliberal governments refuse to do anything that does not enrich or empower the oligarchy; not even for “national security”.
Unfortunately, this means Australia might have just jumped to the top of the nazi parties annexation list.
The “cheap Chinese labor and lax laws” thing is not exactly the issue, at least not these days. The thing is that Chinese industry has spent decades working out how to refine these minerals, and they’re the only ones who are now able to do it at scale. So other countries that extract and process rare earths (which as noted aren’t actually that rare) often ship semi-processed ore to China for final processing.
Sure, other countries can replicate these capabilities if they’re willing to put in the effort. It’s like China’s challenge with EUV lithography, but in reverse. It will take significant time. Also, building up a rare earths processing industry probably involves not just spending capital, but also major environmental risks while you’re doing your trials.
Yup, it is processing of the ores that china is good at. Rare earth is not that rare.
I despise the fucking CCP and PLA, but shoving this move up Krasnov’s ass is a good one.
Good fuck everyone here
It will be interesting to see if Canada allies with China
Much like how Vietnam was allied with the US because of the giant military on their doorstep
Canada’s entire standard of living is the US.
Like Trump likes to say so much: FAFO.
Multiple can play that game.
Pikachu O face
This is bad for Canada. US might try to take ours - by force.
Canada and Greenland should also institute export licensing rules on critical minerals too
It’s cool, trump is getting his so who cares about literally anything else?
- signed, MAGA
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It’s not a big deal. Rare earth minerals aren’t that rare.
It’s the refining of rare earth minerals which is energy intensive and causes a great deal of pollution.
It was nice that China was destroying their own environment and spending the capital to build power plants. Now we will have to invest the capital to do it ourselves.
