I really hope every country the US trades with is looking at this and behind the scenes making whatever arrangements are available to them to cut the US out of their trade network, with the ultimate intent of just ceasing trade with the US entirely. It would be the best option. Trump is going to keep weaponizing economic power to get what he wants, and if other countries keep folding, it’s just going to make him bolder. If they all just cut the US out, it’d hurt them, but it’d hurt the US and specifically Trump’s influence a lot more in the long term.
I’m not suggesting anyone just do it cold turkey. I am suggesting, though, that they start re-tooling their economies to not rely on the US in it in whatever ways they’re able; we’re an unreliable partner, clearly, and anyone whose economy is reliant on us at this point is just asking to get burned or bent over by Trump.
It’s certainly a wake-up call for nations that are over-reliant on US trade to diversify their partnerships. Essentially what the US is doing is globalisation in reverse and hopefully they will find out why globalisation was previously so popular with world leaders.
I really hope every country the US trades with is looking at this and behind the scenes making whatever arrangements are available to them to cut the US out of their trade network, with the ultimate intent of just ceasing trade with the US entirely. It would be the best option. Trump is going to keep weaponizing economic power to get what he wants, and if other countries keep folding, it’s just going to make him bolder. If they all just cut the US out, it’d hurt them, but it’d hurt the US and specifically Trump’s influence a lot more in the long term.
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I’m not suggesting anyone just do it cold turkey. I am suggesting, though, that they start re-tooling their economies to not rely on the US in it in whatever ways they’re able; we’re an unreliable partner, clearly, and anyone whose economy is reliant on us at this point is just asking to get burned or bent over by Trump.
It’s certainly a wake-up call for nations that are over-reliant on US trade to diversify their partnerships. Essentially what the US is doing is globalisation in reverse and hopefully they will find out why globalisation was previously so popular with world leaders.