Trump lets his nuts hang: Tarrifs on Canada Mexico and China day one. UPDATE: MEXICO PRES SONS TRUMP

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Trump gonna use military force for anyone that verbally offends him.
 

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destroyed every major inner city in america that SOB ollie north shytty human.
Should have been put before a firing squad. fukked up thing is stuff like Watergate, Iran/Contra made Americans more apathetic towards the government and less likely to participate, which leads to more fukkery :francis:
 

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Trump is just doing what con men do blurt out threats he has no chance of following up on,on he just wants the attention and for people to talk about it.
Hes a narcissist that demands to be in the spotlight.
Americans basic energy costs would go through the roof if he passed these tariffs.

Yall would be paying that 25 % at the pumps...
 

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Mexico suggests it would impose its own tariffs to retaliate against any Trump tariffs​


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President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Tuesday that Mexico could retaliate with tariffs of its own, after Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on Mexican goods if the country doesn’t stop the flow of drugs and migrants across the border.

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FILE - Newly-sworn in President Claudia Sheinbaum addresses supporters in the Zócalo, Mexico City’s main square, on Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

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FILE - Avocados are stored in crates at a packing plant in Uruapan, Michoacan state, Mexico on Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Armando Solis, File)

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Trucks cross the International Bridge from Mexico into the United States, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Trucks cross the International Bridge from Mexico into the United States, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Updated 12:18 PM EST, November 26, 2024

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Tuesday that Mexico could retaliate with tariffs of its own, after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% import duties on Mexican goods if the country doesn’t stop the flow of drugs and migrants across the border.

Sheinbaum said she was willing to engage in talks on the issues, but said drugs were a U.S. problem.

“One tariff would be followed by another in response, and so on until we put at risk common businesses,” Sheinbaum said, referring to U.S. automakers that have plants on both sides of the border.

She said Tuesday that Mexico had done a lot to stem the flow of migrants, noting “caravans of migrants no longer reach the border.” However, Mexico’s efforts to fight drugs like the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl — which is manufactured by Mexican cartels using chemicals imported from China — have weakened in the last year.

Sheinbaum said Mexico suffered from an influx of weapons smuggled in from the United States, and said the flow of drugs “is a problem of public health and consumption in your country’s society.”

Sheinbaum also criticized U.S. spending on weapons, saying the money should instead be spent regionally to address the problem of migration. “If a percentage of what the United States spends on war were dedicated to peace and development, that would address the underlying causes of migration,” she said.

Sheinbaum’s bristly response suggests that Trump faces a much different Mexican president than he did in his first term.

Back in late 2018, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was a charismatic, old-school politician who developed a chummy relationship with Trump. The two were eventually able to strike a bargain in which Mexico helped keep migrants away from the border — and received other countries’ deported migrants — and Trump backed down on the threats.

But Sheinbaum, who took office Oct. 1, is a stern leftist ideologue trained in radical student protest movements, and appears less willing to pacify or mollify Trump.

“We negotiate as equals, there is no subordination here, because we are a great nation,” Sheinbaum said, while adding, “I think we are going to reach an agreement.”

But Gabriela Siller, director of economic analysis of the financial group Banco Base, fears the personality clash could escalate things into brinkmanship; Trump clearly hates to lose.

“Trump may have just tossed the threat out there, as he does,” Siller said. “But Mexico’s response, that we’re going to respond to you with tariffs, that will make Trump really impose them.”

It’s not clear how serious Trump’s threat is. The U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement forbids just imposing tariffs on other member countries. And it’s not clear whether the economy could even tolerate sudden levies on imports: Auto plants on both sides of the border rely on each other for parts and components, and some production lines could screech to a halt.

“It is unacceptable and would cause inflation and job losses in Mexico and the United States,” Sheinbaum said, while offering to talk about the issues. “If tariffs go up, who will it hurt? General Motors,” she said.

“Dialogue is the best path to achieve understanding, peace and prosperity for our two countries,” Sheinbaum said. “I hope our teams can meet soon.”

Late Monday, Trump said he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% tariff on goods from China, as one of his first executive orders.

The tariffs, if implemented, could dramatically raise prices for American consumers on everything from gas to automobiles to agricultural products. The U.S. is the largest importer of goods in the world, with Mexico, China and Canada its top three suppliers, according to the most recent U.S. Census data.

Trump made the threats Monday in a pair of posts on his Truth Social site in which he railed against an influx of illegal migrants, even though apprehensions at the southern border have been hovering near four-year lows.

“On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders,” he wrote.

He said the new tariffs would remain in place “until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!”

“Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long simmering problem. We hereby demand that they use this power,” he went on, “and until such time that they do, it is time for them to pay a very big price!”
 

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This will force those nations to seek new markets out, or expand the ones they already have..

America's middle class is close to 300 million people, which has a great consumer buying power but Asia has a massive and growing middle class that will take the focus from America eventually.
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What security..:mjlol:
The world long had nuke tech and ain't a damn thing anyone can do about it once it's on.
You’re right so far Mutual assured destruction stops it.

Pakistan could fire nukes at India tommorrow the security agreement is a threat that a single US Submarine would immediately fire nukes at pakistan.

That’s what the agreement is the first nikka to go nuke gets everyone else to trhow nukes in retaliation
 

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Almost anyone that has a nuclear power plant can do the relatively simple trick of building a nuclear bomb. And those that don't have the engineering infrastructure or access to plutonium or uranium will just buy from other countries that are cash strapped *cough* Pakistan *cough*

Iran already basically has a bomb, they just haven't built it, because that would be an instaWar in the middle east. And we know they would have no problem giving it to anyone in the region.

There's a reason Pakistan worried Obama more than any other political issue.

South Korea and Japan aren't going to take the US lying flat in a Trump administration. They're going to form a more cohesive military alliance with Taiwan, Phillipines and even potentially Australia/New Zealand.

This is a powder keg, that for all of the US's faults, had relative control over. As much as we shyt on Obama for his shortcomings domestically, I truly understand what he was trying to do with foreign policy, and if he had 16 years instead of 8, I really think he could've potentially really brought real peace in the world.
word Iran is a special case if they actually build a missle and put a nuke all they have to do is a test and The Isrealis would do a massive nuclear strike with US support.
 
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