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.
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
Greenland, Ukraine, Canada: all of Trump’s actions make sense if you consider that he wants to secure rare earth minerals for… someone
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.
“But look at this picture of Hunter Biden’s magnum dong. I mean, just look at it. Its so…magnum.” - Margarine BattleToad Greene.
Pikachu O face
If China stops exporting these to the US that should influence the trade deficit in the way Trump is looking for, right? Isn’t that what this was supposed to do according to Trump? So he should be happy about this, right? Because it’ll bring the manufacturing of the minerals home? /s
I mean… who knows what he wants, maybe he wants to crash the economy.
Haven’t you heard? China are already on the phone with Trump saying they are going to move the production of terbium to the US. Basically they’ll use these very big drills to mine Chinese minerals right from Wyoming.
“Yep, that’s how it works, I saw it in a cartoon once.” - MAGA Scientific expert.
I mean Scientologist. That’s the same thing, right?
I drink your milkshake.
Cant take more than 2-3 months to move Terbium mining to Ohio.
What if we took China’s factories and PUSHED THEM somewhere ELSE
This will only encourage him to go after Greenland even harder. He thinks they are the solution to having “rare earth.”
Without China as a supplier, and thinking Greenland is the solution, it will justify an armed attack on Greenland in his empty cranium.
The base we maintain in Greenland has about 150 people. My prediction is that he will start sending troops to the base to build up a force, and start intimidating Greenland/Denmark.
The era of Geoeconomics has begun.
Human nature is geoeconomical ):
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.
Wasn’t respecting US patents also one of the parts of the US-Canada agreement as well which they now technically don’t have to do anymore, as not having tariffs was one of the requirements?
Everyone is pretty much selling every stock right now, but sell NYSE: DIS ?
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.
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.
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.
See, it was plausible until the price of oil started falling. Oil is one of the few things propping up Russia’s economy. If oil keeps falling, Russia is even more screwed than it is now.
It would appear that he’s just a brat who’s never been told no in his life, grown so far as to be going senile. It’s all ego. Every single stupid thing he does is because he thinks he’s right. He is the literal embodiment of the dunning-krueger effect, fed by a bubble of yes-men hoping for crumbs from the table.
I don’t think he works for Putin (or well, who knows), but I think he admires fascism and fascists put ideology above economy, so that tracks.
And yet every single action he takes helps Putin…
well he does seem to admire Putin after all
I think he might actually be that stupid tho
I don’t think he even knows what’s on half the shit he signs.
He just grabs his oversized marker pen, puts that goofy-ass signature on them, holds it up for the camera like he’s still hosting The Apprentice, and goes back to playing golf.
The idea of global supply chains more complex than “cotton -> cloth -> Trump branded tat” would blow his mind.
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.
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.
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.
Genuinely never thought I’d join the war on China on the side of China.
It still explains why this is happening. You can’t rely on Cina to build your military systems if they are for a war on China.
It’s increadible that the comments are about Trump’s stupidity and not about the consequences of that war.
Nations that trade extensively with each other don’t go to war. Trade wars are an accelerator of armed conflict.
Nations that trade extensively with each other don’t go to war.
To be fair, that didn’t work with Russia.
Didn’t it ? Russia started imposing tariffs on Ukraine in 2012.
Trade breakdown is a clear precursor to armed conflict.
Fair enough… I meant more in the lines of Europe appeasing (germany in particular) appeasing Russia, but then again, Russia is not directly at war with Germany.
Russia realized that if you just steal shit, you don’t have to pay for it anymore.
But didn’t Trump tell them not to retaliate? I’m pretty sure Trump told them not to retaliate. I don’t understand.
Did Xi jinping say thank you or xia-xia ni ??
I think he said “Oh bother.”
He still has cards to play to make himself heard. He hasn’t insulted anyone’s attire yet.
Really. Maybe they were unclear. About the not retaliating.
He’s got the punch buggy, no punch back rules.
I think we’re in stage 2 now: find out
How badly do you need to fuck up so that China is the one we’re rooting for? JFC.
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.In the wise words of Londo Mollari
Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts.
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.
