I wish I could find another source to confirm this, but if true, that’s basically the nuclear option to kick out all American companies and halt all mineral exports to the US.

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    Sweeping tariffs combined with cutting off aid, curtailing imports from across the world will make America extremely weak.

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      trump doesn’t understand this. The USA gets away with a lot of shit because it does a lot of other good. If we remove the good, we lose the tolerance for our shit.

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          He’s a Russian asset, the question is only whether it’s happening unwittingly. And I think we know how strongly wit can be associated with Trump.

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            I keep seeing this, but realistically, what could Russia possibly do to the US? Russia can’t even defeat a tiny country they share a border with. I’d be more worried about China when it comes to an actual threat.

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              Russia doesn’t want anything from the the U.S. except what it’s already doing. Fucking shit up on the international stage and thereby destabilizing NATO.

              Any decrease is Western Hegemony is good for Russia. It doesn’t matter whether they achieve it by tossing some people out of windows, or by helping an orange toddler ascend to the highest office in the U.S.

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          Oh, it absolutely will be. Our drunken defense secretary said that soft power is weakness.

          Might makes right. Get ready for WWIII.

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        Just like Felon…stop making electric cars or launching useful satellites and he’s gonna get the reprisal of the public… Much more than now. I assume.

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          Canadians will go scorched earth before accepting occupation though. I can see the US union breaking apart sooner than Americans occupying and holding Ottawa

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            I hope so, but I saw a few province leaders in the news salivating at the chance to lick boots and chew leather when the tariffs were announced. Good luck to all of you stuck with those shitheels in charge.

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              Yeah… I really don’t know what’s going on there but its confined to mostly Alberta and Saskatchewan luckily. Our Conservative premier in Ontario is a (former? maybe?) Trump supporter but at least he’s been very against it, even if it is just for the provincial election.

              Our next federal election is where the future of our country is really going to be revealed though

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          Puerto-Rico is not north plus they voted in a referendum the US asked them to do to be part of the…

          Oh, OK then, they’ll abstain from the sun so they’ll be whiter…