The more America gets worse off the bigger the Republican will become.
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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For the Chinese, this is an incredibly sensible way to respond, no question.
As a Canadian, I'm worried. This is only going to strengthen Trump's case for giving the US direct access rate earth minerals through one sided deals in Ukraine, and by coercing or dominating Canada.
The amount of raw ore is not actually the problem. The US is already the second largest producer of rare earths after China. They can’t process all of the ore though so it gets shipped to China for that. The other thing is all of the US rare earths basically come from one mine, which is partially owned by a Chinese company. No amount of blackmailing random countries for mining rights will fix this.
lets not forget Greenland. if you ever wondered what NATO on NATO violence might look like, boy do I have a timeline for you!
It's almost as if he'd planned the whole thing this way and I truly believe he's not as stupid (or at least the people pulling his strings aren't) as he makes out to be. Dead cat strategy professional just like Boris Johnson
Oh, there's a cohesive plan behind it all right, but before you give them too much credit it's from the 1930's. The new part of the plan seems to be to basically do the 1930's again so they reuse the playbook
Well that's really fucking scary!
Yeah, triggering WW3 seems like a better route than strengthening your trade.
Pretty vital stuff for future Jets, advanced radars, missiles etc on just the military side. Strategic move by China it will probably slow the US down a lot in a great many areas for potentially years.
China has to be careful because they are an export driven economy and there's not a lot of wealthy customers out there. If they contribute to a serious recession in the US, it'll carry consequences in China too. The key for them will be retaliation that carries a big political hit but not an economic hit.
the US already bans lots of expensive Chinese products like cars or tech. and the US isn't as a strong market anyways.
they are big enough to influence the market, but definition not even close to dictate it.
the only ones who will suffer by American autarky are Americans
Or to dethrone the US as global currency for once and for all.
China will have to become a net importer for that to happen and that's very unlikely. The Euro has a better chance but I seriously think Trump would turn all of Europe over to Russia to stop that from happening.
Russia can't even take Ukraine, the fantasy that Russia somehow is a military threat to Europe is laughable.
I'm pro-Europe but I also recognize that Europe is very dependent on the US for military technology and weapons. France is the only country that is resistant to the possibility of the US just turning everything off. European nations would do fine vs. Russia with American technology and weapons. I suspect that Russia could reconquer to Berlin if Europe was depraved of American military technology and weapons. Maybe I'm wrong, though.
Ok let's assume Russia takes europe - then what? You think Europeans going to happily sit under Ruzi dictatorship? What the fuck are you even talking about.
Then what? Then you get the 1950's - 1980's in eastern Europe all over again, including an obvious level of stagnation when compared to those on the other side of the iron curtain.
Lmao you think eastern Europeans will accept Russian rule? Even in 1940s with ww2 going on and under entire new brand and government method Ruzis could barely hold eastern European countries.
Now with internet and basically untraceable weapons of mass destruction you think ruskies can hold an independent country when they can barely hold their own together?
Absurd.
Georgians recently elected a very pro-Moscow political party. Belarus could revolt but doesn't. During Soviet rule, we had the example of the Hungarians whose little revolt was crushed quickly. They then fell back in line to Russian rule.
Nah having trouble believing that Baltics could ever be rules by Russia. No way ruskies ever winning that.
Now you have to be a troll. First, Russia ruled the Baltics for several generations. Second, it is the most easily conquered NATO territory in Europe today. Many doubt that NATO would respond and Russia would displace native people (who they will forcibly relocate elsewhere) with Russians who will be moved in to Russify the lands.
Again your references are form almost 100 years ago and today's guerilla warfare is a million times more effective.
Read this and educate yourself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_war_in_the_Baltic_states
Russia is not holding anything lmao
By your source, they resisted 12 years (mostly due to western aid) and then gave-up.
"By the early 1950s, the Soviet forces had eradicated most of the Forest Brother resistance. Intelligence gathered by the Soviet spies in the West and MGB infiltrators within the resistance movement, in combination with large-scale Soviet operations in 1952, managed to end the campaigns against them. Many of the remaining Forest Brothers laid down their weapons when offered an amnesty by the Soviet authorities..."
12 years with 1940s tech. With 2025 tech that's collapse of Russia sort of resistance. The Baltics would 100% dirty bomb Moscow if it ever came to it.
Ruzkies and the world is very different now especially since Russian soft power is so incredibly low compared to ww2. Literally nobody likes Russia and nobody can justify existence under their failing system and economy. Every Baltics state has significantly higher GDP per capita than Russia with basically infinite natural resources - there's no way to even spin Russian occupation.
You are clearly the troll here if you can't understand this.
Maybe, I'm not a military expert by no means, but I fail to see the real advantage of the supposed american military technology when they lost every single war since ww2, often against supply starved adversary.
They win wars. They bore of occupations.
Trump wants to devalue US currency. He sees US dollar supremacy as why the US is not competitive in the export market and part of the reason why manufacturing has left the country.
Most countries take the US dollars they make on exports and stockpile them in US treasuries which keeps the dollars value high relative to other currencies.
Essentially he sees the high value of the US dollar and trade deficit as bubbles that will eventually burst and collapse the US economy. Which is an issue he thinks he can fix/prevent with tariffs.