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Originally Posted by Coach
The thing that's most idiotic about that is if he actually framed it that way, a lot of people would be on board. Like if Trump came out tomorrow and said "American business, bringing your jobs back to USA by 2026 or we tariff everything."
You'd probably have pretty broad support for that idea and it would give all economies surrounding and attached time to coordinate adjustments. But he's an idiot. So that's not what he's doing.
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Same with the Ukraine minerals thing. If he came out and explained that having American companies on the ground with vested interests would deter Russian aggression it would at least be a plausible explanation. Maybe not a good one but better than just an apparent shakedown.
Edit: then again that’s just us trying to find a rationale explanation for irrational behaviour. More likely he really is just a duck.